Week ends around little Armenia
The good thing in Armenia is that you can quickly go around the country! 10 days ago, Angela, Abishek and me went to lake Sevan, the favourite escape place of the Armenians. It is a lake situated at about 2,000m altitude and so it's still pretty cool in the summer, so cool that most people only start swimming there around 5pm when the water has heated up a little. Well, it's fall now and I wanted to go before it gets really cold (that's my excuse for all of of my excursions so far!). Angela was kind enough to offer her Armenian expertise, and along with a freshly arrived volunteer, Abishek, we embarked on an inter-regional marshrutka ride. As a marshrutka fan, this was my lucky day!
The landscape was, once again, barren. No trees, and not much of anything else actually. We slowly climbed the smooth slopes of the empty roads that would lead us to one of the largest high-altitude lakes in the world. I had some of my first advanced armenian conversation with the taxi driver that day, revolving around the fact that my grand mother is armenian and that I like strawberries and tomatoes...
At the lake, there was only a handful of tourists, and some happy Armenians who were there to celebrate a wedding. The weather was beautiful, which made the colour of the water come out as a nice dark blue...



