05/09/2026
We drove from Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪 to the boarder with Armenia 🇦🇲. We had to walk across the boarder to meet our new driver and guide. Naturally we had to pass thru immigration control. My wheelchair ♿️ would not fit thru the door. They put me in the semi-truck lane. Me in my wheelchair between all those big trucks was a sight.
Our hotel was in the heart of Yerevan, Armenia 🇦🇲 the capital city.
There is really nothing remarkable here. Armenia has been concured and destroy by the Arabs, Bulshivics, Turks Germans and Russians so many times, the large Armenian country was reduced to what no one else wanted, a small landlocked country of 3 million people and no real Natural Resources except some fertal land which they grow everything imaginable. Fruits and Vegetables are their main exports. So most fled as refugees to other countries. Not much of an economy.
Armenians are Oriental Orthodox Christians. Their language is difficult and only spoken here in Armenia.
We visited old churches and monasteries high on mountains and away from people.
Mt. Ararat, where the supposed ruins of Noah's Ark are found, was in Armenia but taken by Turkey 🇹🇷 some years ago. The mountain you see in the clouds is Mt. Ararat at 17,000 feet.
Here are some pictures of our Armenian adventure. We are off to Istanbul now.
