Tsaghkadzor. Hrazdan.
Let’s start with a simple, ordinary bench. How did it happen that these benches stand all over Armenia and Georgia? One day we will find out. Let’s read what is written on this one.
ԾԱՂԿԱ Ձ ՈՐ
ЦАХКА ДЗ ОР
The strangest Armenian letters for Russian speakers are Ղ (roughly “gh”) and Ձ (the “dz” diphthong).
The second photo is from one of our evening walks. We saw a hotel high up on the mountain and spent about 40 minutes climbing toward it along a steep serpentine road. The effort was rewarded with an incredible number of wildflowers on the roadside and a beautiful view from above. We did not go into the hotel - judging by the cars, serious people were gathered there.
The third photo, with stained glass, opens a series about completely non-tourist Hrazdan. It is a city - one of the “pearls” strung along the crooked thread of the Yerevan-Tbilisi railway. An industrial town with a hydroelectric power plant in its center, built in the second half of the last century specifically for the plant workers.
We started exploring this place with the city museum. On the closed door there was a phone number. A male voice answered, not very happy with our wish to visit the museum exactly today. An hour later, that voice turned out to belong to an energetic, lean, older man - the museum director. The photo shows a fragment of bright stained glass opposite the staircase from the first floor to the second.
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