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1997
Route in China (ARMENIA )
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on ploshchad Lenina is this handsome building housing the Ararat restaurant, stores and offices.
I visited Yerevan on foot by myself on Thursday and Friday stopping at the Museum, the Art Gallery, the Opera House, the Central Market and the parks.
I tried in vain to get internet access at a couple of big hotels, I wrote a bunch of post cards and mailed them from the post office across the street from this building and wandered about like any solitary tourist would.
On Friday, I went to the airline office near here and bought a plane ticket to Odessa for Sunday, grudgingly paying 240 US dollars for it, twice the 120 US$ fare charged to Armenians.
Friday evening Arthur came right on time and we had a few beers chewing the fat about life in Armenia and about my travels. We got along fine and he suggested we should go to Lake Sevan for the day on Saturday which I thought was a good idea.
Sevan Lake
The following morning, Arthur, his wife Annetta and I took an early bus to beautiful Sevan Lake. We lazed in the burning sun and enjoyed the cheese, dry sausage and tomatoes we had with lavash (Armenian bread) for lunch. Then, we got lucky as Arthur met his friend Elos who invited the three of us to join him on a sail boat.
The Sevan Sailing Club (government owned) was putting on a regatta that day and Elos Avakian had the use of a sailboat like this one to monitor and time the contestants' passage by one of the course buoys. There were seven of us aboard, Elos with his wife Marina and three children, Arthur, Annetta and I.
Annetta, Arthur and Elos are enjoying this as much as I am. The waters of Sevan Lake are really this incredible milky green colour!
After the race, we had tea in a very modest cabin Elos was renting for a week. Later he took us for a drive in his jalopy so I could see other parts of the lake. We flagged
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Armenia Gallery
