Photos d'Arménie լուսանկարներ Հայաստան Фотографии из Армении
Le nom arménien d'origine pour le pays est Hayk (du nom du patriarche légendaire des Arméniens, arrière-arrière-petit-fils de Noé). Le nom au Moyen Age a été étendu à Hayastan (Arménien: Հայաստան), par l'addition du suffixe-iranien Stan (la terre). Le mot Arménie provient du nom d'Aram, un descendant en ligne directe du patriarche Hayk. Le pays se situe sur les hauts plateaux entourant la montagne biblique d'Ararat. |
![alaverdi avtovokzal](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-Alaverdi.jpg)
Alaverdi bus station
![lake sevan church](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-Sevan.jpg)
Sevanavank Monastery on the shore of Lake Sevan
![yerevan and mount ararat](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-Yerevan1.jpg)
Yerevan and Mount Ararat
![mayr Hayastan](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-yerevan3.jpg)
Yerevan : statue of Mother Armenia ("Mayr Hayastan)"
(more photos with stamps)
(more photos of statues)
![yerevan central square](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-Yerevan.jpg)
Yerevan central square (Hanrapetutyan Hraparak) at night
(more night photos and reflection photos)
![soviet restaurant](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-yerevan2.jpg)
Yerevan : СССР ресторан
Dinner with fellow travellers in the soviet themed restaurant
Our new Politburo discussed this slogan :
"we make soviet miniskirts higher than the world standards"
![basalt rocks garni](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-Garni.jpg)
Basalt rock formation near Garni
(I saw some other such basalt columns in California)
![geghard monastery](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-Geghard.jpg)
Geghard Monastery : chapel carved out of the cliffside
![vorotan pass](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-Vorotan-pass.jpg)
Lake Spendaryan near Vorotan pass
![tatev monastery](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-Tatev.jpg)
Tatev Monastery
![meghri iranian border](../../photos/2005trip/2005-ARM-Meghri.jpg)
Meghri (the mountains at the back are in Iran)
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Pays de l'ex-URSS
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