Poor Armenia, Kim. Some countries just can’t seem to catch a break, and they have a long, tragic history of abuse from others. Armenia is a perfect example; their genocide museum in Yerevan is heartbreaking, and Armenians in the self-proclaimed Republic of Artzakh (formerly Nagorno-Karabakh) are still at war with Azerbaijan.
Armenia is the only country still existing on three-thousand-year-old maps of Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), so Armenians are certainly tough and resilient. Exploring Artzakh—the country that technically doesn’t exist—and Armenia’s myriad medieval monasteries and UNESCO sites was killer, Sis! And Kim’s View of the thirteenth-century monastery Noravank is a classic.
