Refresh your memory from the first part of George’s travels and read about his trip to Armenia here. Artsakh captured my imagination ever since I was unable to find it on a map. While […]
When my friends and family learned I would be going to Armenia and Artsakh for my summer holidays back in 2015, I was on the receiving end of some mixed reactions. “Armenia! Really?” said one […]
It seems like every Sunday after church, I’m confronted by the same question: “How many times have you been to Armenia?” I never have a sufficient answer regardless of whether the question is posed by […]
We were driving north from Yerevan, towards Aparan. Passing the village of Ushi, my friend Vova asked, “Have you been to Ushi?” “Of course, I’ve passed here many times”, I replied. “So you’ve seen Surb […]
On the road near Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport, visitors may have noticed a sign for Musaler village and the red masonry memorial nearby. The memorial recalls the battle of Musa Dagh (Musa Ler in Armenian), a […]
It would have been hard to imagine a more suitable site for the Sept. 16 Artsakh Wine Festival than Togh village in Artsakh’s Hadrut marz (district), since it is easily accessible; there is one […]
We left Shushi in Artsakh, passing Tigranakert, the remains of one of Armenian King Tigran II’s regional capitals. King Tigran ruled 95-55 B.C. I would have loved to have revisited the site, but other […]
Friedrich Parrot of the University of Dortmund, Germany, accompanied by his translator and author, Khachatur Abovian, made the first documented ascent of Mount Ararat in October 1829. Parrot visited Akori before the earthquake, writing that […]
Kamaris[i] is a village in Kotayk marz (province) with a population of about 2,000, according to figures from 2001. There are reportedly Bronze Age tombs in the vicinity. Atop the hill, past the old and […]
Holy Cross of Varag Day In third century A.D. on Varag Mountain, on the south shore of Lake Van in Western Armenia, Saint Hripsime and her maidens were fleeing the persecution of Christians by the […]
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