Note to Selves: Never Spend the Night on a CIS Border

For our last night in Armenia, we had planned on staying the picturesque town of Alaverdi (see below), nestled in the Debed Canyon.


Instead, we somehow let our driver talk us into staying here:



Yes, we spent the night in a motel in the nether regions between the Armenian and Georgian borders. While at first I were taken by the twinge of the exotic that is a CIS border motel, when we were awoken at 1 am by blaring Armenian music, I felt a little differently. We did manage to find a quaint little BYOB joint on the border called the Karavan Cafe:

Coffee or shashlik, anyone?