Friday, November 18, 2005

Where am I?

I am dying of exhaustion, and annoyed by yet another different keyboard. Wait, I fixed that problem... much better. OK, so I am in Kars now. Two nights with terrible sleep, last night camping at 2km elevation in a snow/frost zone which was pretty brutal. Tonight a hotel it is! We drove through Borjomi in Georgia then Akhaltsikhe (not Akhalkalakh) which was some of the best scenery we'd seen in Georgia besides Kazbeki and the botanic gardens of Batumi on a past trip. Unfortunately hit the Turkish border (where they were nice enough but it was a rather confused process and they tried to screw us really good on the exchange rate for car insurance) at night and didn't get to see the scenery in daylight, but the moon was almost full and bright orange, so we did pass a massive lake (thanks to a wrong turn) and the campground was chosen for us by car trouble. We woke with everything - including the tents - literally covered in frost.

One of the strangest things about being here is that it is spitting distance from Armenia, but TWO time zones behind. So the sun rises at 5:30 and sets at (no kidding) 3:30, and it's not even the equinox yet. It is quite ridiculous. Aaaanyway, all day was spent at Ani, which is just so amazing even the second time. I actually saw new stuff I hadn't noticed last time and it was quite different looking in the winter than in the spring, but the scale and all was just incredible yet again...

That's all I have the energy to write now.....

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