Sometimes you want to meet the locals, and have a local experience. Sometimes you need quiet and to be by yourself. Today we wanted peace and a good night’s sleep. We had a beautiful day’s cycling in the sunshine to Lake Seven – a beautiful lake surrounded by snowy mountains. And then a 10 hour sleep. Wonderful.
Fisherman on Lake Sevan
Today was up, then down, then up, then down. All in the beautiful sunshine in the Armenian mountains. We got an early start from our kind host in Vanadzor as we needed to climb quite some metres today.
View on the way to Dilijan
James on the way up
Emerging from the tunnel before Lake Seven we found ourselves in the snow. Cruising down the river, we saw a gap in the mountains open out with each bend in the road, which turned into a wide expanse with snow-capped mountains on the horizon. Beautiful.
Entering Sevan town
All along the road following the lake shore were little huts, and fisherman waiting for cars to pass. They held out their arms, indicating the size of the fish they could sell. They must have mighty big fish in this lake!
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Lots of snow still. And it looks like relatively “new” snow, not just the leftover from Winter. Beautiful!
Yes. A beautiful place. 🙂
I met my future wife in Armenia 🙂
Yes. There is a film about a cyclist that fell in love in Armenia. A lovely country.
Did you come through Abovyan between 3 and 5 this afternoon?
Asks a guy from Germany! 🙂
(Close to Giessen and Lahnquelle, you know (I know you know *g*)
Hi there. No. It wasn’t me. I’m not in Germany at the moment. 🙂
“Abovyan”, that town 15km before Yerevan! 🙂
I just hear that two cyclists came through today! 🙂
Ah. It wasn’t me.. My blog is delayed for various reasons – mainly as I didn’t want to blog on Iran while being in Iran. I’m actually quite a bit further on now. I didn’t go to Yerevan, though, so I haven’t been to Abovyan. The places I saw in Armenia were beautiful though. 🙂