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Yerevan sleeps. Only a few taxi drivers are at the station asking if I need a ride, but they do not insist. The public lights are off, the streets are illuminated by the closed shops lights. It is cold. I walk towards the centre. Some buses go by and leave passengers. In the centre I finally find a \u201cPaul\u201d caf\u00e9 open. The prices are tourist prices. I warm up with a coffee and reserve the hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After leaving the backpack at the hotel I go to discover the city. It is completely different from Tbilisi. Smaller, much less confusion. Large sidewalks and comfortable. Only the pedestrian lights take very long to change. I go up the \u201cCascade\u201d via the Contemporary Art Museum. The timetable outside says it opens at 10:00, it is in 4 minutes. I wait and then when I go inside they say there is no exhibition per se, but a set of mechanical stairs and next to it many pieces of art. It is an interesting building. At the \u201cMother of Armenia\u201d \u2013 again a big statue of a woman -, the door downstairs have a sign clearly saying \u201copen\u201d. Inside is the Military Museum. The lady seated at the desk at the entrance turn on the lights for me. The exhibits are about the Armenia-Azerbeijan conflicts. When I go to the other floor, another lady working there follows me at the 2\/3 meter distance for the whole circuit. At the end both came to say that the museum is free but accepts donations. I don\u2019t have dirhams, I say. No problem, we accept any currency. I give 5 Lari which I understand will be a direct tip to the ladies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I walk down to the magnificent Matenadaran Museum, which is also a repository and research institute of ancient manuscripts. Mostly are in Armenian, but many also in other languages and alphabets. I like alphabets and this trip was rich on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I eat in a pizza restaurant with an interesting concept: one chooses on the menu slices of the pizzas one wants and they make a tray with the desired mix. I taste the Armenian red wine, served fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The afternoon I visit the \u201cVernissage\u201d, kind of souvenirs market, where there is no pressure to buy anything. So far in Armenia no one insists to sell anything to the tourist. I exchange my remaining Laris and then visit the Blue Mosque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many water points, which is welcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After resting for a while in the hotel, I go visit the old Yeveran neighbourhood. It is on a hill and basically where the poor people now live. There is a try to bring some live and art to the quarter, which is nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end I try to go to the Ararat brandy museum, but it is only with guided tours. I go for an early dinner instead, with Armenian specialities. There are influences of the middle-east and I manage to have a nice vegetarian choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I walked already 26km today, says my watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I still go to a bar. On the Portwine\/Jerez section they listed only a Jerez and a Madeira wine. I tell them while I drink an Ararat brandy with honey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 06:20 The lights go on. We are 30 minutes away from Yerevan. I did not sleep much, but well. I believe better than my Bulgarian colleague who I saw seated during the night. I need to discover what is there to see in Yerevan, look for an hotel, where I can leave my backpack and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-eastwards-2023","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>09:00<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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