After some excitement of getting there, we were dropped off at our bus for the day, which would be taking us from the outskirts of Tbilisi to Yerevan.
We really had experienced a variety of climates during our trip, the snow bound mountains of Turkey, the sunny Black Sea coast, the moderate Tbilisi weather and then back to snow.
We reached the border and went through the Georgian border control. No more photos here for obvious reasons, but there was about a five minute wait to get out of Georgia. We then boarded our bus again which went about eighty metres before we got out again to enter Armenia.
And safely into Armenia! The staff members here were particularly friendly, this felt like a real welcome to the country.
The country to live….
Much of the countryside was quite barren, but we had some extensive views during the journey.
A brief stop at Ijevan.
Hilly….
We were told that there would be a fifteen minute wait at these services, but that transpired to be over forty minutes. We met an English speaker, who is studying medicine in Tbilisi, and she was held at the Georgian border for over three hours. She had been able to switch to our bus otherwise she was stuck, as her original bus wasn’t going to wait for that long. She had been planning a day trip to Yerevan, but I suspect that turned into an overnight one as otherwise she’d have to go back as soon as she got there.
And safely into Yerevan.