First of all we quickly visited the Sevan Writers House a real tribute to 1950's architecture a shame that the designers got sent to Siberia by Stalin ! The Sevanak Monastery behind it provided an amazing juxtaposition !
With only 70 kms to negotiate to Yerevan and plenty of time, we didn't mind terribly getting lost on our venture in to Yerevan. What we did mind though was finding that we'd somehow ended up right in the middle of the city.
As plans go this one failed primarily as Armenia has extensive gps jamming for geompolitcial reasons meaning that our primary nav aid was Google Maps with a terrible lagging blue dot and a city with bugger all signs (no airport ones) and a shit load of traffic !
Somehow we fluked our way to the airport seeing our first airport sign 100 metes from the airport turn off ! We were both mentally exhausted !
Hire car thankfully returned and dinner taken at the airport we this time took a 4,000 AMD taxi (charged 20,000 on our first night) around blocked streets caused by protesting Armenians over their countries agreement to give part of their territory to secure peace with Azerbjan.
At the Central train station we pulled out our books not particularly looking forward to our 3 hours wait and 10 hour train trip to Tbilisi Georgia !
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| Sevanak Minastery |
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| Our Hotel Lake Sevan |
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| 1950s Writers House Lake Sevan |
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