Urtsadzor – Afra's village

Last weekend we spent with visit our friend's house - volunteer from Germany. It's quite big village (2000 people), named Urtsadzor, it's not so far from Yerevan (1,5hour by mashrutka). And it's really near mountains and Krosrov nature reserve, it means wonderful views and snakes.

Finally, we were able to organize trip in such a big group of volunteers. People from village were a bit shocked when they saw 7 foreigners (2german, 2 czechs, slovakian, italian, portuguese) walking through their lovely village, almost got a heart attack when we impressed them with our almost fluently amenian :)

Before trip we were warned that there is a lot of snakes...

First day started with excellent italian pasta from our italian/sardinian Paola. We went for a walk in nearby mountains. Tomas and Paola saw green snake! After we find out that he wasn't poisonous. We saw more interesting things – footprint of 'bears', cows, horses, flowers, a lot of shits :D, bugs, skeleton of dog,...

Next day we were invited for BBQ, up to the mountains. We went for a walk again. Unfortunately, it looked that it will start rain, so we returned quite early. But on the way back, we saw skin of snake, big snake (1,5metre long; viper). Luckily, we didn't meet the owner. We did BBQ, drink a bit. The best time for...horse riding. Almost all of us did it first time in our lifes. It was just for a few minutes but we really enjoyed it!

In the end of these awesome days we made sure of transport difficulties in Armenia. But in the end we reached Yerevan.