Photos from Armenia լուսանկարներ Հայաստան Фотографии из Армении
The native Armenian name for the country is Hayk (from the legendary patriarch of the Armenians and a great-great-grandson of Noah). The name in the Middle Ages was extended to Hayastan (Armenian: Հայաստան), by addition of the Iranian suffix -stan (land). The name Armenia derives from the name of Aram, a lineal descendent of the patriarch Hayk. Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of 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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