A common site throughout the Caucasus is Americans giggling and taking photos of Barf laundry detergent. Meaning "snow" in Persian, Barf needs to undergo a name change before taking on the US market.
This family gives thanks by offering up a chicken at Khor Virap Church. Before getting blessed by the priest, the family walked around the church three times with the chicken.
Khor Virap Monastery is located just a few hundred meters from the Turkish border and very close to Mt. Ararat (Armenia's sacred mountain where Noah's Ark is supposed to have landed). St. Gregory was imprisoned here in the 3rd-4th century for being a Christian. When he survived a dark cell for 12 years and was able to cure the king's illness, the king converted to Christianity and Armenia became the first Christian nation in 301.
