Visa and Entery requiremnt
by Doctor38
Almost any body can get a visa on the boarder or Airport. It is a straight foward prossess that take about half an hour and costs about 30 US $. I elected get an electronic Visa. It is an online service, you go the seb site
http://www.armeniaforeignministry.am/eVisa/faq.htm#Is%20e-Visa%20accepted%20at%20any%20boarder%20point
and give them all the relevant information and credit card number and they'll charge you 60 Dollars. 2 days later you end up with your visa in your e mail. You print it and take it with you to teh airport. BE CARFUL, onlie visas are not accepted on land boarders, only good for Airport. Multi-entry visa very trick and could result in headaches. I was told that I need to request it from the Ambassedor him self.
Armenian Embassies abroad
http://www.armeniaforeignministry.com/ministry/embassiesList.html
Georgian Visa
by MalenaN
The Georgian Embassy in Yerevan is opened between 10.30 - 13.00 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (Wednesdays are closed, and of course the day I went there). It opens up again at five o'clock to give back the passports with visas.
To have a visa issued in one day costs 75 dollars (they want to have the money in Drams). Otherwise it takes four business days and the price is then about the half. For the application you will need one photo.
The woman at the embassy said visas could be issued at one of the boarder crossings from Armenia (don't remember which one) for a cost of 80 dollars.
Address: Arami Street 42 (close to the Republic Square)
Telephon: 564357, 564183
Fax: 564357
E-mail: georgia@arminco.com
Vartan Mamikonian statue
by call_me_rhia
An interesting sight in Yerevan is the equestrian statue of Vartan Mamikonian brandishing his sword, created by the sculptor E. Kochar.
The Mamikonian family was a noble family which dominated Armenian politics between the 4th and 8th centuries - and Vartan was a great military leader of Armenia, as well as a spiritual leader (in fact he's a Saint, too).
Vartan is well known for having rejected the Persian-imposed religion as well asbeing one of the men behind the great Armenian rebellion against their Sassanian lords.
CUISINE - Traditional Armenian...
by kitinka
CUISINE - Traditional Armenian food is a poem, every line of which has its own particular aroma and harkens back to the ancient meals of shepherds and monks, dukes and citizens. Thousands of big and littlesecrets create the fame of traditional Armenian food. Original recipes, spices and certainly the art of culinary give an inimitable piquantness to traditional food. Cheese, greens and lavash - indispensable accompaniment for every meal. Lavash is a small and easy-rolling strip of dough, nearly a meter long, baked on the hot wall of a fireplace - tonir, kindled by dry grape rod. Ancient Armenians were rolling up barbeque (khorovats) in lavash. That tradition is popular up to our days. In the autumn, winter and spring we advise you to try grape - leaf tolma. Tolma is an ancient dish - it was popular in the years before Armenia was aware of cabbage.
Two different Yerevans: (2) Tamanian's legacy
by GeoV
In 1924, Alexander Tamanian's plan to transform the centre of Yerevan was accepted and what has been described as the best planned city in the former Soviet Union emerged from an ordinary provincial town. For a flavour of Tamanian at his best you need look no further than the central Republic Square where the reddish tuff stone takes on different qualities in the light of different times of day. This is what you might call 'old-new' Armenian architecture - old motifs that might bring Zvartnots cathedral to mind incorporated into the new vision of Tamanian. Like it or dislike it, Tamanian and Yerevan are inextricably linked.
The pictures show various aspects of Republic Square and a statue of Tamanian by Artashes Ovsepyan.
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The New Boulevard uphill
With Ararat behind, albeit invisible
