Wednesday - Lake Sevan

The hotel owner had a sattelite TV, so some of us watched the news in the morning about America.
We left the hotel at 8.00 and drove around to a peninsular. This used to be an island, but with the lowering of the water, was now joined to the land. On the island, were two monasteries, with two churches. There were beautiful views over the lake. The upper church was 245 steps up. There were many seminarians about, and as we walked to the upper church, two of them came with us and manned a desk to sell cards and trinkets.
They were much more organized than the Georgians.
On the way to Yerevan we stopped by the road with some French tourists to pick up some Obsidian. A hard black glassy Silicon Dioxide compound. Some times it has streaks of brown, and can also be totally brown

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