As our time in Armenia is coming to a close, Taylor expressed his thought that he'd seen enough churches. Well, we have have seen quite a few churches, so now it's time to learn out to bake lavash.... and to see a temple, instead of a church.
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| Each lady is actually sitting with her legs in a hole in the ground. The oven is also a hole in the ground. You can see one loaf of lavash is already in the oven. |
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| The woman to the right rolls out the dough, and the woman on the left tosses it, like pizza dough. |
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| She slaps the dough onto the wall of the oven using the padded pillow that she is leaning on. When it is baked, she pulls the bread out with the iron poker. |
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| Voila! Hot lavash. |
Now that we've viewed bread baking and had lunch, it's time for - not another church, Taylor, but a temple. The Temple of Garni was once the summer palace of King Trdat I who built it in the first century AD. It's entirely different from the Armenian Apostolic Churches, as you can see. However, like many of the churches we have visited, it also is in a stunning location.
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| I'm looking down a cliff and can see the road far down the in the valley. What a view! |
We only have one more day, here in Armenia, and only one more church.
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