Best Things To Do In Yerevan ¦ Armenia Travel Guide

Welcome to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. In this video, I am bringing you with me to this city and I'm going to show you the best things you can do when you are in Yerevan Yerevan is one of the oldest cities in the world. It might come as a surprise to you but Yerevan is actually older than Rome. In 2018, the city celebrated its 2800th birthday and nowadays it is home to more than 1 million people, one-third of Armenia's population Yerevan has a long history and it has been ruled by Arabs, Persians, Turks, Georgians and Russians You can still see their impact on the city and you can find many Soviet architecture buildings here Perhaps the most impressive example of Soviet architecture is this giant stairway The Cascade Complex, one of the main attractions in Yerevan. Tourists come here to climb the stairs for the best view of the city. If you don't fancy walking all the way up you can go inside and take the escalator to the top The climb up here might seem so tough and actually during the hot day it is a bit tough but it worth the climb because when you are here at the top you can have a great view of the whole city and you can see Mount Ararat Mount Ararat is where Noah's Ark landed after the great flood and it is considered to be the national symbol of Armenia even though it is located in Turkey The next stop is the modern part of Yerevan, Northern Avenue. This car-free street connects the Opera House to Republic Square and it is my favorite place in Yerevan During the day it might seem empty and just a place for shopping but in the evening it's bustling with people and it is where you can see Armenian street performers there are a lot of good restaurants and cafes around this area right now we are in Lavash restaurant one of the most famous restaurants in Yerevan actually many people who have been in Yerevan or some of the locals they suggested us to come here the first time we tried to come here they didn't have any table available but lucky for us today we found a table and I ordered pomegranate drink it's not a fresh pomegranate juice but it's homemade pomegranate drink let me try it it is so sweet we ordered dolma with cabbage leaf which is actually dolma I think it has beef when you order it in Greece usually you get it without meat but here is different let me try one it's minced beef and it's so tasty I really like it the other dish we ordered is kinkali and we tried once we were in Georgia this time we got the fried kinkali this is how in Georgia they told us we should eat it I should suck the juice you can see there is meat inside and I love it here is gum market where you can find local Armenian products including meat vegetable and some dry fruit here you can actually taste whatever they are selling they give you to try this is for Bruno it's one kind of like candy but Armenian candy with nuts it's so sweet but the nuts kind of like balance the sweetness I like it thank you I really like it and I bought it and the price was quite cheap also it's 1000 dirham the other market you must visit while in Yerevan is Vernissage market the name is French and means art exhibition preview if you like flea market as much as I do you should come here and here you can find a lot of art craft and local products basically you can find anything and everything here it is a great place to buy a souvenir this market is open every day and it is located just behind the republic square metro station Armenia is a Christian country but they have a mosque and it's a blue mosque here this blue mosque looks like many other mosques in Iran especially in the city of Isfahan this is the style Iranian use for the mosque blue mosque was built in the 18th century during the Persian reign over Armenia and it is the only remaining mosque in the country all other mosques in Armenia were demolished during the soviet era a visit to Armenia is not complete without visiting the Armenian genocide memorial the present identity of Armenians was very much shaped by the Armenian genocide in 1915 when over 1 million people lost their lives this is definitely not a happy place but it is important to understand the history of Armenia and its people thanks for watching and see you in the next video