25.03.2022   Tomorrow I start. A new country. Kyrgyzstan. Since Corona, everything has to be handled and planned much more flexibly, so I had already asked for a holiday of 3 weeks in early spring, but it was only 2 months before that really became concrete. And then it was time to see where I … Continue reading Kyrgyzstan – before the trip → Read more

06.10.2021 I think this is now the last blogpost about the trip. And kind of a conclusion. Would I want to go to Armenia again? Would I recommend other people to travel to Armenia?   Armenia is as big as Brandenburg. So it is quite small for a country. I.e. you can travel everywhere within … Continue reading Armenia – how is it as a travel destination? → Read more

05.10.2021 I went to Armenia by night train. Back, I thought it would be nice to take a minibus during the day. That should work fine from Gyumri. First I needed a PCR test. While inTbilisi they are a dime a dozen in the city, in Armenia you have to look hard for one. I … Continue reading Armenia -> Tbilisi – return with a new view → Read more

04.10.2021 My last destination in Armenia was Gyumri. It is the second largest city in Armenia (170,000), just on the border with Turkey. It was built in 1837 by a fortress founded by Russians. It had many different names: Alexandropol, Leninakan and Kumajri – until the current name Gyumri was agreed upon.   The most … Continue reading Gyumri – city, black and earthquake → Read more

03.10.2021 In the Dilijan area, multi-day hiking seemed a bit too complicated for me. But there were plenty of day tours on offer and I did a few of them. Here I will tell you about two of them. First I started on the tour with the 2 churches. This gave me the opportunity to … Continue reading Dilijan – 2 hikes, 3 churches and 1 summit cross → Read more

02.10.2021 During my time in Armenia, I wondered which traditions were covered up by the Soviets and yet where they would still be visible. Especially visually. It seemed to me that I only saw soviet, soviet and soviet – in the architecture, in how people shape their surroundings. I had ideas that it was still … Continue reading Dilijan – traditions and travelling luck → Read more

01.10.2021 – 2. part I had taken a liking to driving a taxi – especially if the route I wanted to take was too inconvenient for public transport. It was only 37 km to Dilijan, and I was able to endure Adriano Celentano and electric stuff.   But first I had to say goodbye to … Continue reading Dilijan – drive, rain and dogs → Read more

01.10.2021   No, not a bathing day, the swimming costume remained an unused item in my backpack. Instead, I had chosen a short hike to the monastery that appears in most pictures of Lake Sevan – the Sevanavank Monastery. A little over 7 km seemd to be a track and not to go along the … Continue reading Sevan – small discoveries, monastery and russians → Read more

30.09.2021 Sevan is a 23,000 plus town in the northern part of Lake Sevan. It was founded in 1842 by Jewish-believing Russians. There are various accommodations here – and somehow I imagined it to be mainly a kind of holiday idyll. Far from it – it looks like a quite normal, rather Soviet-looking town. I … Continue reading Sevan – houses, industry and beach → Read more

29.09.2021 Today is my last day in Armenia. There are thoughts about what I have experienced and I feel compelled to write them down and publish them now instead of keeping them chronologically for later. What lies between the taxi ride and today, however, will also be reported on.   Yesterday I took a taxi … Continue reading Armenia – … and deep inside is the sadness → Read more