Silk Road Sojourn

Trip Start Dec 04, 2007

Trip End Dec 05, 2007

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Flag of Armenia Syunik Marz, Armenia
Sunday, December 9, 2007

My group of eight, consisting of six technical people and two drivers in twin NJivas travelled South into the mountainous and remote Syunik province of Armenia, right up to its border with Iran. We are trying to inspect the most remote and alpine reservoir site before the snows of January close us out completely. The first map herein shows little Armenia, surrounded by large, powerful, sometimes hostile, and hungry neighbors. We drove from Yerevan, the capital, to Meghri, on the border, 400 kilometers (245 miles), across six or seven mountain ranges, some up to 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) high, and it took us one whole day.

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01. Regional map	02. Armenia map	03. Syunik Marz (District, province)	05. One of our two Nivas
06. Perched lake	07. Hunter's lodge en route	08. Get out your "Redbook"	09. Team Leader & Deputy Team Leader
10. Sos's finger	04. Up and away	11. Hey!	12. Goris, from approach road
13. Standing rocks behind Goris	14. Rest stop	15. Confab	16. More confab
17. Ah, lunch is ready.	18. Along the way	19. Mountain scenery	20. Truck stop
21. "Good business"	22. Rigging up the slipped truck	23. Haul away, Joe, er, Aram.	24. Roadside repair
25. Repair story	26. Finishing up. Just adding ome anti-freeze.	27. Sunsetr, day 1	28. Night Ride, fork in the road
29. Hotel in Agarak	30. Aram, my driver for this trip	31. Hotel chief cook & bottle washer	32. Check out time, 8:30 a.m. Dec. 5, 2007
33. On the Iranian Border	34. Getting down to business	35. Meghri	36. Further up the valley
37. "Kaki" (persimmon} orchard	38. Further	39. Approaching Lichk village	40. Licht village
41. Armen and David	42. Extreme skiing area	43. Sos	44. Main road into Licht village
45. Mountains and goats. An old, old, story.	46.	47. Hovik Misroyan, village headman	48. "I tell you, that's the site right there."
49. Reservoir site panorama	50. Site survey crew	51. Dave, lovin' it.	52. Armen
53. Serious mountains	54. Sos and Ararat, discuss the EXACT location	55. Sos and Ararat	56. Aram, Driver #1, and his Niva
57. Ararat	58. Did I mention mountains?	59. Heading back, a new way, up and over	60. View from the pass
61. Ice fog descending the ridge	62. Looking downward	63. Typical passage. En garde!	64. Kadjaran town
65. Kapan town	66. Kapan market	67. Kapan market	68. Armen, with fruit
69. Guardian companions	70. Hideout	71. Kaki (Persimmons)	72. Kaki
74. 2nd day lunch	75. Hostess	73. 2nd day's lunch preliminaries	76. Homeward (Yerevan) Bound
77. Cigarette break	78. End of a great couple of days!