Haghpat Monastery is in the village Haghpat, high in the hills outside Alaverdi. It is not within walking distance from Alaverdi so I decided to take the bus.
Together with some other people I waited 20 minutes for the bus to arrive. When the bus arrived I was told (even though noone spoke English) it was not leaving until three hours later. Well, other people were already waiting so I decided to do the same. People on the bus were very nice and friendly and with sign language and pictures in my guidebook we had a conversation. I also went for a short walk. After 1,5 hours someone brought a teacher who spoke English and I was told the bus was not going back to Alaverdi that day, but it was staying in Haghpat until the next morning. I thought that maybe I could get a lift back. After another half hour I was hungry and went back to the hotel and later took a taxi after all. And lucky was that. A couple of kilometres before we reached Haghpat we passed the bus, which had broken down (we took three passengers in the car). After my visit to Haghpat the bus was still there and through the window I saw one of the women I had waited with earlier that day. We waved happily to each other. Thinking of how the bus looked I think this was not the first time it broke down.
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on Oct 16, 2005
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