Yerevan
15 Apr 2013 | Աբովյան, Հայաստան
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From now, if I want to go anywhere farther East I will need visas. That is the part I really don't like. Papers. Documents. Plane tickets. Hotel reservations... I don't like that.
And there is not too many embassies in Tbilisi. Iran and India are in Yerevan. Pakistan is in Baku. But I would need a visa to go to Azerbaidjan...
"From the 10th January 2013 on EU Citizens DO NOT need a visa for Armenia anymore." Ok, Yerevan, here I come! I'll start with the Indian visa. Oh yes, Indian administration, one of the worst I have ever experienced, especially when I was there 6 years ago. So after three days at trying to negotiate not having to show all these documents, I give up and book a plane. Anyway, if I want to cross Pakistan it will be even harder to get a visa, and money-wise it would much more expensive to buy all Azerbaidjan, Iran and Pakistan visa, the latest I'm not even sure to get. So be it, plane then :(
So I spend two weeks in Armenia (Indian administration: they send my application to France...). The whole time I stay at Srbuhi's place in Abovian (a suburb of Yerevan), she's wonderful little girl full of energy and good vibes. The weather goes from too hot to stormy one day or the other, so I manage to go out of Yerevan only one day (the only contact I have who lives in the mountains is stuck in Yerevan the whole week...), but I discover amazing places and landscapes, and warm people, definitely worth exploring more some other time...