Even though the air conditioning didn’t work and the front desk clerks didn’t know anything about the town they live and work in, the view from our window was worth the cost of the room
This is a piece of the view, you just can’t capture it on film (ok, maybe not film). The fortress in the distance is restored and you can visit it, and the one on the nearer hill is just starting to be redone. They have restored the tower but nothing else. If you look closely, if you can, you can see the walls are still ruins. I wish they would leave them like that, so we could see how they are now without any intervention, but no, you cannot visit the ruins, just the redone stuff.
Sure is beautiful in the setting sun.
We took a free walking tour with Randy, a college student, and saw the world’s smallest bird. Really, it is the smallest bird, a hummingbird the size of a bumblebee.
Can’t see it? 
There are murals on the sides of some of the buildings left over from the Russian occupation, they call it “in the Russian style”.
It is a cute town with small shops in the same area they have been in for 3000 years. Some of the buildings expand their upper stories to get more space and not pay extra taxes.
As you see, the town is built on hills. It is lovely to see.
When someone dies their family posts their picture on a neighboring wall for 40 days and then again on the first and second anniversary of their death. You see these posters all around the town.
This monument is remembering the men who fought for and won different battles with the Turks for their freedom, which often didn’t last long. If a statue of a soldier is on a horse and the horse is standing with 2 feet in the air, the soldier died in battle, if the horse has one leg lifted, the soldier died later of his wounds and if the horse is stand on all 4 feet, the soldier died from unrelated causes.
It is just a lovely place
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