Yerevan, the Opera House (left) and Mount Ararat

Photographer: Martin Harley
From: The ice-cream taxi to Yerevan
Canon » Canon Digital Ixus 960 Is

Yerevan, the Opera House (left) and Mount Ararat

Armenian's get a little misty-eyed about Mount Ararat. It's 40km away and 5165m high, which is acclimatisation territory for anyone wants to climb it, which the Armenians can't as it's inside the Turkish border now. Once it was Armenian and they haven't forgotten it, but the borders are closed as relations with Turkey aren't great.