You can continue to explore the shining shop windows of Dalma Garden Mall. It has not only a variety of shops but an original design, as well. This two-storeyed shopping center includes clothing and footwear shops of well-known brands, excellent shops with goods for children and sports products. On the ground floor, is an excellent grocery store, which will surely please with affordable prices. While walking down …
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2. Travelers wishing to get to the remote areas of the city quickly will hardly find a better transport than metro. It works from 6:30 to 23:00. Fixed-route minibuses are also very popular. They work from early in the morning until late at night. 3. Travelers planning to use taxi services are recommended to specify the price with the driver in advance. Not all taxis have meters, and different taxi companies can …
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Play City is a popular entertainment complex that also deserves a visit. It offers rich choice entertaining activities for both children and adults. Travelers who like puzzles and mysteries simply cannot fail to visit Questomania – the best escape room in the capital of Armenia. People in Yerevan and Armenia in general like taking photographs, and so Photo Atelier Marashlyan is very popular among different …
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Quite an unusual event awaits tourists who decide to arrive in the city at the foot of Mount Ararat in the middle of June. This is the time of the baby strollers’ parade. Hundreds of people go to the streets of the city with baby strollers that are decorated in a peculiar way. They can be decorated using the decoupage method, shaped like berries or characters of popular children’s fictional characters. …
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Yerevan Zoo also deserves the attention of tourists with children. It recently completed a large-scale renovation. Today, the zoo occupies a large territory and all its animals walk around in spacious and beautifully decorated enclosures. In the zoo, there is a large aviary for bears with swimming pools and special logs on which they can climb. There is also a beautiful artificial pond in which swans live. Visitors …
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The Republic Square remains the favorite place of walks for Yerevan guests and locals. Next to it is another outstanding architectural monument - the building of the Armenian government. The construction of the building began in 1926 and lasted more than 20 years. The main building materials were tuff and basalt. The building turned out to be incredibly solemn. It is decorated with spectacular arched spans and …
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Moving around in Armenia - transportation
You will find a trolley bus service in big cities. Every year, the government tries to update the fleet as much as possible. The tram network existed on the territory of Yerevan until 2004, and to date almost all tramways have already been dismantled. Automobile roads in the country continue to be modernized and improved. In the remote regions of the country however, the main roads have only a ground covering. Due to the peculiarities of the relief road, even asphalt automobile roads have a rather tortuous intersection so the speed limit is restricted to 60 kilometers per hour. The total length of the network of automobile roads is more than seven and a half thousand kilometers. There are practically no bicycle lanes in the country. The development of this transport industry was also influenced by the country’s relief.
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Economy roadmap of Armenia
More than twenty percent of the total GDP is industrial revenue. Its main branches are mechanical engineering (metal-cutting constructions, press-molding equipment, precision instruments, etc.) and metal processing. The petrochemical and chemical industries play a small role. It is on the basis of the deposit of various minerals that the production of building materials is built. In some regions of the country, for example in Agarak and Kapan, there are significant deposits of copper ore. Several factories were launched on this basis for the remelting of this raw material. The largest chemical complex of Armenia is engaged in the processing of diamonds which also brings considerable profit. In the food industry, a branch of wine-cognac production received special development.
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