Today we woke up at 7.00. After breakfast we went to see the statue of the Mother of Armenia. Huge statue en a high point made from the tuv stone and the same sculptura style of the main buildings we´ve seen. Until 1967 there was a statue of Stalin in that place. The Mother of Armenia represents peace through strength. She has a sword perfectly perpendicular to her body, holding it in a way that the elbow shows a perfect 90 degrees angle. Though the monument, the stairs and even the fences are very beautiful, there are some tanks in the surrondings that are awful. They are there because the base is the museum of the Ministry of Defense. We had lunch, which was again very nice (I had a salad that was red cabbage, apple, blue cheese and caramelized nuts). Then we went to Buzand Street. This is the street where the past meets the future.
On one side of the street the old Yerevan, half destroyed or empty houses and even some famous person house. In front of it huge buildings or big holes in the land like to have space for five floors of subterranean parking. And from there we went to the Market. This is a very nice building with a beautiful entrance. This is an arch with a carved metal work with natural motifs such as animals, flowers, fruits or vegetables. It´s done in a way that lets the light inside the market and with the sum of two floors of big windows it makes the artificial light completely unnecesary.
Inside there are several stands, they are mainly green grocery´s, nuts and dried fruits and herbs and spices. In the green grocery´s they have tomato, cucumber, potatoes, cabbage and some beautiful bouquets with these herbs we had the first day. 
In the nuts stands, there are all variations of dried and glazed fruits (almost alla of them), and some local specialities like de fruit lavash (a sheet made of fruit juice) some rolls made with the fruit lavash and a walnut filling mixed wth cognac or some stripes of half walnuts glued together with some fruit gel. 
All the vendors try to make you taste some if you eat everything they offer you don´t need to have your next meal. The herbs and species are harder to understand when you don´t speak the language. I bought some very nice mulberrys, dried and fresh, some hazelnuts and some vegetables. One one of the small locals on the side two ladies with a big smile are preparing oriental coffee. The coffee is cooked in some tiny copper pan and then serve it altogether with the coffee milled. It very nice. I wanted to visit some museum but as it was monday they were all closed. So we drive around some streets and funnily in the corner we stopped there was a cage with some three guys playing domino.
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