Vagharshapat

to love it.

And I had the best advice for... from someone in Armenia and it was probably my fourth or fifth visit and I was sitting with my wife and we were talking and they told us, when you bring the kids to Armenia, don't bring them here and Go show them Etchmiadzin and this is Garni and this is Gerhard and look at the church, look at the monastery here.

And the kids are going to get bored.

They're going to think Armenia is a museum.

Nor were their prejudiced minds convinced by the ascent of Mr. Bryce twenty years later, in 1876.

Two days after his ascent that gentleman paid a visit to the Armenian monastery at Echmiadzin, and was presented to the Archimandrite as the Englishman who had just ascended the top of Masis.

No, said the ecclesiastical dignitary, that cannot be.

No one has ever been there.