(Last Updated on Oct 26, 2024)

It was sometime in 2021. I was watching a Malayalam travel show on Youtube. There was no way we could travel with the pandemic raging. So the next best thing was watching travel videos. The video showed the person going to an obscure place called Yerevan. I had to open up the map to check where it was. It continued to show him traveling by road to extremely remote places covered in snow with no people around. I wondered – who would put in the effort to travel to such a place which had nothing! One name that lasted in my memory was “Sevan” – a huge lake that dominated over one-sixth of the entire country’s area.

Cut to 2024, we were planning a trip to the very same Armenia. If you read our Georgia blog, you would know that we had to utilize our Air Arabia voucher before it expired. And one of the destinations they flew to was none other than Yerevan, the capital of Armenia! I got into research mode.

Armenia shares borders with Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey. It is situated on the Armenian highlands. Given its location in the Transcaucasian region, it has been subjected to a lot of invasions. In recent times, it was occupied by the Persians, Ottomans (who were also responsible for the gruesome Armenian genocide) and Russian empire. In the Soviet era, it became the Armenia SSR and finally, the independent country of Armenia.

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