Travel Portfolio
TOP Driving through the Caucasus
mountains in Armenia, we visited a series
of churches, cave chapels and monasteries,
some of them dating from the 4th century.
Unadorned interiors were lit by hundreds
of candles; the devout poured through
cavernous spaces that echoed with the
chanting of priests.
RIGHT Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, has
a lovely medieval heart of cobbled lanes
and fretwork wooden buildings, dominated
by a rambling fortress.
OPPOSITE TOP One of our ‘Drive the Silk
Road’ Land Rovers negotiates a rickety
bridge across a snowmelt torrent in
western Kyrgyzstan.
OPPOSITE BOTTOM Mount Ararat, where
Noah is said to have grounded his ark,
rose to 5 137 metres before us. Once an
Armenian mountain, it’s now part of Turkey
- a symbol of all that Armenia lost in the
wars of the early 20th century.
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