3 Blogs to Read Before Yerevan ©
3 Blogs to Read Before Yerevan

3 Blogs to Read Before Yerevan

A Yerevan local, a Pole who keeps going back and an independent newsroom — three ways of paying attention to Armenia

Armenia gets written about in two registers: diaspora sentiment and thin SEO itineraries. These three are neither. Between them they cover the Cascade and the tufa boulevards Tamanian drew, the Soviet mosaics and bus stops nobody photographs, the Areni wine country, and the politics that shape what the city looks like this year.

The useful split here is distance. One writer lives in Yerevan, one has been returning for a decade, and one publishes from the city without being a travel site at all. Read them in that order and the place stops being an itinerary.

Further Reading

3 Blogs to Read Before Yerevan

  1. 01 16 Cozy Things to Do in Yerevan in Winter absolutearmenia.com · Aram Vardanyan Run by Aram Vardanyan, who grew up in Etchmiadzin and lives in Yerevan. Rare among country blogs in being organised by province rather than by listicle — start with the Yerevan restaurant guide, then follow the provincial drives outward.
  2. 02 31 Amazing Things to Do in Yerevan, Armenia mywanderlust.pl · Kamila Napora A Polish solo traveller who keeps going back. Her guide to Yerevan's Soviet architecture and her account of watching the 2018 velvet revolution from the street are the two things here no itinerary post will give you.
  3. 03 EVN Report evnreport.com · Maria Titizian Not a travel site at all — an independent non-profit magazine published in Yerevan, covering politics, the arts and the long aftermath of war. Read it for the context the guidebooks leave out.

These are other people’s blogs, out on the open web. We don’t run them and we don’t earn anything from the links — they’re here because they are good.