May 27, 2010
Today we left the Artsakh Hotel Armenia. We drove two hours to Lachin where we planted 17 walnut trees. When planting the trees, it was hard to take the tree roots out of the bags and some people ripped the trees out of the bags. We also saw trees that were planted last year. It was a wonderful experience planting trees in Lachin, knowing that we were creating memories and helping the environment and the Artsakh people.
On our way to Yerevan, we stopped by the beautiful village of Jermuk. On the whinny roads to Jermuk we saw cows, sheep, horses, donkeys and dogs. We also saw beehive boxes they keep bees in to collect honey.
Jermuk is a beautiful village famous for its mineral water, it is 2,000 meters above sea level. Jermuk means “warm” in Russian. We went to the Armenia Spa and Resort for lunch, it had beautiful architecture with arches and water fountains where we sampled different temperature mineral water. We also visited the park dedicated to the fallen Armenian Heroes where we took pictures on top of Hrair Tejokh’s statute.
After lunch, we visited the Jermuk mineral water bottling factory where we sampled the Jermuk water while it was going through the machine. It was very interesting to see what happens in a factory like that.
We got back onto the bus and traveled for another two hours to see Ararat again and arrive in Yerevan.
By Alexis Cormier