“Are there people who still bake bread in the tonir?”
“There are but very few. Let’s walk a bit. As soon as we smell a scent of freshly baked lavash, we will go towards it.”
The north-western Shirak Province of Armenia is well-known for Gyumri, the second-largest city and the cultural capital of Armenia.
One of the most charming villages of the Lori region sits on the Pambak River.
We have talked to the COAF crew living in the villages of Armenia and have listed a few things that only people who live in villages will understand.
The villagers sip a cup of coffee as roosters’ Cock-A-Doodle-Doo breaks the early morning tranquility getting everyone in the mood to work.
Paints, brushes, parts of toy cars, engines, ping pong balls, ice-cream sticks, various chargers, and other weird and incredible items lay on Ashot Harutyunyan’s work desk.
Mets Ayrum reminds The Tower of Babel in the most positive sense of the word. It is a mixture of dialects, cuisines, cultures, and lifestyles.
‘-Have you seen the Grand Canyon?
-Not really!
-Get in the car, you are going to see it, – says Suren, the Agritech program Instructor at the COAF SMART Center.
To “use the bathroom”, children had to leave the building and walk towards a smallish shelter that was built on that purpose.
If you’re surrounded by mountains, the spring water is fresh and cool, there are cabbage, carrot, and potato fields all over the area, it means you’re in Sarnaghbyur village of the Shirak region.
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