areni

we already got the zoomies the very next day, so we decided to go to the oldest wine region in the world and see what it has to offer. took a metro (the goofiest i have been on so far, goes like 5kmh, loud and shaky as hell and you have to buy tickets in the form of little plastic coins at a counter. plus it had some graffiti, but when i photographed it, some guy working there immediately came up to me and had me delete all the pictures and videos. same happened to uyiun.

it only took two rides to cover the distance all the way to areni, probably because it's like the only road. we also passed by a region where turkey, armenia, azerbaijan and iran pretty much meet in one point, you could see all the different flags if you looked the right way. like in east turkey, there were a loooot of bunkers and fortified positions, for some reason one of them also seemed to be russian.

we arrived in a little town and were welcomed into the guest house. there was a famous monastery close by, but we decided to dedicate the day to homemade wine. they sell it for about two euros per litre in coke bottles, so it's an absolute steal. and it tastes amazing.

the next morningn, we had a great breakfast made by the guest house owner and then started spent a couple hours walking and hitchhiking to the monastery and back, before we already hit the road to yerevan again.

(sorry for all the pics of ararat, but it just looks way too amazing) Czytaj więcej