Amateur Traveler episode 854. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about monasteries and mountains,

a caravan, Surai, and the oldest cathedral, wine and waterfalls as we do a road trip through this is

cathedral wine and waterfalls as we do a road trip through the country of Armenia.

This is Chris Christensen from amateur traveler. Let's talk about Armenia.

I'd like to welcome back to the show John Mackenzie, John from John the Curious

Traveler on Instagram or John the Traveler.com on the web and John I say welcome back he was here for

episode 675 on the Kansas road trip and he's come to talk to us about a

different road trip but Dorothy we are not in Kansas anymore.

John, welcome back to the show.

Thanks, Chris. Great to be here again.

Sorry, I just, I had, that joke was just sitting there.

I had to do that. And if you haven't listened to the episode on Kansas Road Trip, I literally just brought it up to my wife yesterday. I was telling John as we started recording

talking about the world's largest museum of small versions of large things. So that was a fun

show. We are not talking about Kansas Kansas so where are we talking about John we are

talking about Armenia which is somewhat east of Kansas yeah pretty much on the other side of the world from all of North America, really,

the Caucasus region.

So we're east of Turkey and west of the Caspian Sea here in Armenia.

Yeah, east and technically a little bit north.

Armenia is wedged there between Turkey, Georgia, the country, and Azerbaijan and Iran a little bit.

And what's your connection with Armenia?

So I went there in October of 2022 as an attendee at the Extraordinary Travel Festival and I love to travel so I thought I've never been here. I actually had planned to go in

2008 and it didn't happen so I decided to stay and explore a little bit.

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