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General Tips: Having a Tour Guide is a Good Idea for Some
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  • Written by RedEaredPanda on Sep 4, 2004
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    • Armenia - Our Tour Guide Anna by a Khachkar
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    • Favorite Thing: While in Armenia, we took a guided tour for only one day out of our vacation because we preffered to tour the country on our own time with a taxi.. But, for a non-Armenian speaking tourist, having a tour guide who speaks multi-languages is definitely a plus..

    I will provide here the tour guide and services information since I was pleased with their help. They provide transportation, refreshments and ofcourse a guidence during the tour..

    "Guest Services"
    www.hyurservice.com
    Tel in Yerevan: 56-04-95


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    General Tips: Beautiful Butterflies Flying Everywhere
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  • Written by RedEaredPanda on Sep 12, 2004
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    • Favorite Thing: When visiting different parts of Armenia, be it all the way north or east towards the mountanous Nagorno Karabakh, we witnessed many different varities of beautiful and colorful butterflies flying in and out of the trees and flowers...

    From a natural history source, I read that Armenia has over 270 different species of butterflies. A country which is 1/5 the size of the state of Florida in the U.S has many beautiful butterflies at different sizes and colors.. We were fortunate to see different colored butterflies around the monastaries we visited and I took a picture of a few of them...

    One hint for collectors of butterflies: At the most famous bazaar or shopping area in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia called "Vernisage" which is open on saturdays and sundays only.. You can find one person who sells preserved Armenian butterflies which he caught himself displayed in a nice frame for a negotiable price.. The price I was able to bargain for was US $20 for a medium sized frame. They are beautiful, trust me.....


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    General Tips: Petrol, Benzene, Gas What is This???
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  • Written by RedEaredPanda on Dec 3, 2004
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    • Favorite Thing: Well, while traveling in Armenia, mostly which was done with taxis, we were told that most cars run on gas.. Yeah, it's natural gas, not petrol!! Cars have a tank in the trunk where they fill them at gas stations with natural gas and go on their way....

    Our taxi driver's car was equiped with both.. A natural gas tank and a petrol tank.. A switch was placed next to his seat by the gear where he would choose which fuel to choose when.. Natural gas would power the automobile less than petrol would so when we needed to go up a steep hill, he would flick the switch to petrol and off we went.. Natural gass also was a lot cheaper in price than petrol...

    I asked the gentleman in the photo if I could take a picture of him filling natural gas in the tanks and he agreed.. We were just about to go off on a two day driving trip to the northern regions of Armenia..


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