Yerevan

📌 After some big Armenian meals from Marietta we made our way back to the capital in search for some different flavours, the next few days we enjoyed some delicious Italian, Vegan food and even a Georgian restaurant (defs our favourite cuisine so far in Europe).

📌 We spent the days in Yerevan with freedom, we explored the city a little more, we went to the gym even and also did a little Pilates workout in the room. Hitting the gym again after 2 months off, geez was the soreness intense the next few days!

📌 We spent a full day visiting some sights around Yerevan such as an ancient temple that was believed to be built by the Romans (Temple of Garni) where it was part of a bigger complex several thousand years ago. It was quite a different structure that we hadn't come across on our journey of seeing lots of Roman ruins. Not too far from here was a interesting geological formation of organ pipes which was a nice walk through. We then finished the day with an attempted visit to a monastery, however the road works were so insane with absolutely no traffic control, we gave up and turned around. Basically the road was getting grated on one side and cars were trying to use the other in each direction but there was no traffic control 😂

📌 Our final full day involved a day trip to Dilijan, a township near Armenias largest national park, this area was mountainous and quite pretty due to the dense greenery and spring flowers. A short walk through the forest and a delicious lunch overlooking a lake meant a successful day trip. We finished the day in the capital where they were celebrating/commemorating the genocide anniversary in the old Soviet square, the sound of the speaker echoing around the square really made it feel quite intense, thinking about what soviet speeches would have been spoken in this square.Read more