I�ve been out of action for a few days and this is why. Tuesday I went up north to Haghpat, it was one of the places I still hadn�t seen even though I had been to Sanahin. Haghpat is very impressive, out of the many Khatchkars that I have seen, the ones at Haghpat and Dativank would have to be my favourites. On the way back down went via Sevan to try and cool off, unfortunately it didn�t make an ounce of difference.

Wednesday I walked 25 kms around the city just soaking in the atmosphere and taking heaps of photos of road construction, so bear with me and I�ll have them posted soon.

Thursday I finally went up the Cascade (it�s only around the corner from me but I�d never climbed it) and walked around Monument and Mayr Hayastan. The park up there is quite nice and peaceful and of course great views. So after walking for 10 kms, I finally caved in and went to Water world. Everything I had heard about that place was true. I was really impressed by the cleanliness and the organization of the place. For instance the lifeguards are really strict on sunnies (sunglasses). Not allowed to wear them inside the pool and photos aren�t allowed in the pool. Every now and then, they start the waves in the pool and the crowd goes crazy. As soon as they started the waves I also went in and was screaming in joy like the rest of them. For most it would be the first time that they have experienced waves? All this fun for a cost of 2500 Drams since I only wanted to use swimming facilities and not the water slides. They were playing music over the speaker anything from Cher to Kylie Minogue to Nune, well worth it.

I have done a fair bit of travelling in the past few months and while I�m still in Armenia, there is one other place I want to see and that is MEGHRI!