FARM LIFE IN NORTHERN ARMENIA | Remote + Simple Living
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- HUGGING A BABY GOAT WAS EVERYTHING!!! Northern Armenia is like the wild west of the Caucasus lol. I was so fortunate to be able to see what life was like beyond the larger centers of Yerevan and Gyumri and it reminded me a lot of my own small home town in Saskatchewan. Life runs at a slower pace, most people work in agriculture or live off the land, the animals are super cute and the people are incredibly welcoming. We also got to tour Lake Arpi in the most north western point of the country on the borders of Georgia and Turkey. If you've been looking for a more off the beaten track adventure in Armenia, then this is it!
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Incredibly beautiful Armenia 🇦🇲
Armenia is very beautiful
I'm at work right now, but stopped everything to watch this one since I knew it has baby goats and other cute animals! 😍
Seriously, this is an amazing video which literally made my day! 😁
Aw thank you so much, Rahul! It was a really special day to see all these cuties :)
This country is beautiful. What a treat Alina.
Sure is 🙂
Armenia is very beautiful and peaceful. What a lovely small town.
This farm is beautiful I liked everything about it
A fabulous and respectful expose of farm life in Armenia. The landscape is very similar to where both sets of my grandparents homesteaded in southern Saskatchewan after leaving eastern Europe in the early 1900s.
Thank you very much Alina for making us discover the marvelous Armenia in all its facets and its incredible splendor.
Enjoyed the countryside very much, Irina is kindhearted woman.
It's not a Turkish cat, it's an Armenian cat from lake Van. Turks were nomads, they migrated to Anatolia from Central Asia. The area of lake Van was inhabited by Armenians for many thousand years.
Thank you! I wrote the same comment! 🌹Abrees
Красивые места! Как прекрасна наша Земля!
A very nice in the farm, Alina!❤️
Ես իրանցի եմ և սիրում եմ Հայաստանը🇮🇷🇮🇷🇦🇲🇦🇲
Love Armenia from iran
մենք էլ ձեզ ենք սիրում
@@heros0264 what you say to him and what he say to you ?🤔🤔🤔
@@living_peace Armenians and Iranians love each other. Old civilizations.
@@living_peace he said that he loves Armenia, and I told him that we love Iran
Wow, the Nirvana life in this farm, love from India
Places untouched by man, where the soul feels free. Big greetings from Armenia! ❤️🇦🇲
Armenia is beautiful country with a beautiful people 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hi Alina
This tour of the countryside is amazing. Its nice to see the rural aspect of region and see how people outside of the cities live.
Love seeing your videos from Armenia. Stay safe...
hello alına and all armenian friend have fun always thanks Really beautiful video Alina friend🍱🥗🍹🍕🍲🍩🍹🍣🍄from turkey
Lovely and heart touching Farmer life. Really appreciate your help. Great video wonderful content.
Thank you!
Hi Alina, it’s such a beautiful city, the sky is absolutely clear.
What a beautiful life
Omgggg so beautiful!!! The countryside is beyond Beautiful!!
It really is :)
FARM LIVING HOME SIMPLE LIFE THATS GOOD
My wife and I visited this lovely property in 2017. It was great to watch this video and experience the beauty and charm of Vazgen’s property all over again. Thanks for sharing!
Всегда восхищался людьми с очень большой душой и сильным духом!! Получил удовольствие от вашего видео! Спасибо!
What a life! Good place to live.
We (my 3 year old daughter), LOVE 💕 watching your videos!!! Thanks 🙏🏽
Aw that’s so sweet! Thank you!
@@AlinaMcleod you do a very professional job!
I like how all the animals were so friendly. Even the cow came when she called. Irina must be a very good and kind person, all the animals adored her. Never knew the countryside of Armenia was so green! Awesome video. Although I like seeing the cities, I really appreciate seeing the countryside. Thank you for taking us along, Alina.
She absolutely is :) I've never seen someone loved more by animals.
Nice simple life
wow! raising and training all animals with love instead of cruelty. nice 👌
Cats! so many fluffy cats. (cats that like water?, good. problem of bathing a cat solved)
Very nice to see you, Alina. Blessings🙏 lovely NATURE 😍 Thank you for a nice video! Take care 🤍 and be safe! My love always from Houston, TEXAS.🙋♀️🇺🇲
@NostaIgia 🙋♀️👌🤍🙏
Hi frirnd leonor
Hi Alina! I enjoyed this video! I can relate to simple farm life in northern Armenia, albeit from a similar Lithuanian context. Farming can be a hard life, but there is also simple beauty as well as beauty in natural simplicity.
For me, it has also been a journey of discovery to connect with the land and the people where my father and mother, respectively, grew up. And this journey of discovery and learning continues with each visit to our family homesteads in rural Lithuania.
Nearly all of my cousins in Lithuania have transitioned from farm life to urban or town life - beginning in Soviet times, but accelerated in post-Soviet time, especially after the passing of our parents’ generation (my uncles and aunts). Sadly, moving forward into the near future, my family will have little or no legacy on the farms and farm villages where they and our ancestors have lived, farmed, and survived for centuries.
Yes, farming communities are becoming smaller and smaller in each place. It's a difficult business to run in and of itself, but the risk has become much greater for most people than having a regular job so to say. Hopefully some semblance can still be retained for future generations.
@@AlinaMcleod This is a universal story. it seems that farmers everywhere are selectively older, and traditional farm communities are becoming smaller and declining in number. Children of farmers are increasingly becoming urban dwellers - for better economic and working opportunities and a more comfortable life.
❤️ your lifestyle. I admire you a lot.
The countryside is really nice, with the farm/ animals and people. Enjoyed the video.
Hello Alina! 😁🙏👋🌟 I hope your having a super marvelous day! This is really a beautiful magnificent fascinating video! The music sounds fantastic! 😄👍❤️👏🇦🇲📹🎶💯🥇🌟 Wow! The countryside of Armenia looks amazing so beautiful! Lake Arpi looks huge! The view is so incredible from the lake. Amazing outstanding drone shots of the farmland! 👍👏🏅💯 The farm looks so beautiful with cute animals. The cats are so cute! Irina really has a marvelous farm, it’s truly a amazing place! 🙂👍🇦🇲👏💯 Thank you so much Alina to share with us your wonderful amazing travel adventures around the world. You are the best and greatest world traveler adventurer. 😃👍✈️🌎📹👏🥇💯🌟 I wish you Alina a wonderful beautiful glorious blessed day. Take care and be safe Alina. Have a super fantastic time in Armenia! 😊🙏❤️👋🇦🇲👍🌟
Thank you! It's definitely a beautiful country :)
Alina...the local farm was incredible. Loved the animals & the beautiful Armenian people. Mrs. Irina knows love is the language animals understand & respond to, just like humans. Very relaxing & peaceful lifestyle. Careful with the bugs, they are vectors of diseases. Thank you for the heart warming & touching video.
Thank you so much from a grateful subscriber🙏 I think I’ve found where I want to retire 👏🏻👏🏻👍
The terrain and the landscape remind me a lot of what you showed us in Bulgaria and North Macedonia, but quite a bit less developed. Armenia looks beautiful!
It does look similar, but we still have trees in the Balkans. But I'm not sure is less developed, this farm looked well. I think familly farms, not a company's one aren't better looking than this one.
Serene ,peace, all around
It's amazing country side and very relaxing place, thanks for the treat Alina. Stay safe always
Hi Alina!
Your smile says averything, I mean you're happy .
Take care. I love your videos.
Greetings from Mexico.
Wow i wanna come there and live there forever with nature.
Van was a heavily attacked Armenian region and was lost during the years of the genocides, the van cat should not be called “turkish.”
Congratulation on the vídeo and I wish a great day
Dreamy landscapes! Dreamy cats!
Armenia is so beautiful, I love the farm life, the scenes are spectacular, thank you for sharing, great video.
I started following here, this time last year in Greece...finally she ends up in Armenia
Those were not Van cats i think. Van cats have different eyes, blue and green. And also the areas near the lake Van were almost always populated by Armenians (before the 1915 genocide of course) and so the Van cats used to be a some kind of armenian heritage (sadly not anymore because it is prohibited by the law to export those cats). And the last thing I wanted to share with you is that Gyumri was one of the first layovers for those who were fleeing Turkey. Even my grandparents stopped there and then moved to Aparan
They are Van cats. Some had blue eyes, some amber and some a mix of both. They fit the exact descriptions of what Van cats are.
@@AlinaMcleod thanks for replying :) I'm not insisting, i just assumed based on what i saw. The owners should know better😁
Such wonderful people and animals. Heartwaming to see! Thanks Alina, for always making great content no matter where you are ☀️
Thank you very much!
Thanks Alina.
what a beautiful video. thank you ❤️🇦🇲
beautiful ALINA, ,,thanks!
It is so interesting to see the countryside that it is so beautiful and peaceful. Thanks for sharing Alina.
GOD BLESS MY FAVOURITE TRAVEL TH-camR!
YES, I WOULD LOVE TO LIVE HERE.
Barev, Alina, super to see more around you´re adventures in Armenia. I like these countryside style and the animals. Well done work. More please, you know. Stay safe and healthy, always.
Wow just beautiful scenery I didn't know existed in Armenia Farm Life; Thanks for covering this Farm
Another beautiful and fascinating video.
We can always count on you to find these wonderful places to visit quite a change from some of the videos you put out and I love every one of them. Those animals are so loving and they want to be hugged and fed also ☺️ I bet they will talk about himself for weeks about the wonderful people that visit them. Great job Alina!! Cheers!
They sure are 🙂
@@AlinaMcleod hi sweet alina i want tosay something to u
Irina wasn't so attractive, but she was absolutely ADORABLE. I could almost "see" her good soul, which radiated love for her animals and for her life on this earth. Thanks Alina.
"Would you live here?"
Heck yeah, I would. Farm life is my jam.
@NostaIgia Nah. I'm a country lad growing up. I used to live without wifi.
Bravo dear Alina 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Looking so pretty.God bless you and your family
You are among the truest of true travelers, excellent video
Love animals
Very nicely done!
Whene I want to have a rest, I watch your blog. Thank you.
Wonderful Alina 😊
I'm far of being Armenian however i think Armenia is the place to be🙌👉❤❤🌟🌟❤❤🙌
Hi Alina! Whose the friend on your right shoulder at 5:03? So natural! Love those farm animals! Sure these things are familiar deeply embedded in your heart, being from a farming locale yourself. Animals just know who loves them! Amazed by you!
Many bugs out in these parts lol
@@AlinaMcleod LOL! Yes; I suppose they enjoy the freedom and there’s plenty to eat near a farm! Gotta be comfortable with the critters too. BTW, what an admirable woman is Irina!! Her dream and goal is a worthy one - helping kids stay close to the land and source. Wishing her much success.
Good night Alina 🌸🌸🌸
What a heartwarming!!! I love all of your videos especially the video that cute animals are mainly cast as your friends like this😍
Thank you :) :)
Alina, if you like nature, I believe Nairian Cosmetics had a botanical garden. The content creator Roffi Petrossian was a consultant on the garden as he has a degree in that field. I don’t know if they give tours but it is worth looking them up for more content.
This is so amazing! It's so beautiful out there.
Cool
More video gold. Thank you, Alina.
You are most welcome!
Yes I agree with you Alina! It was a wonderful treat to see that wonderful ladie's farm and her adorable animals! It sure is pretty out in the Armenian countryside, but I am sure its a lot of work to maintain that farm and all those animals. I truly admire people who can live that simply but as a city boy I couldn't live that way full-time. I would love to visit her though!
This place is so peaceful and nowadays I think that I could stay there for a long period despite daily life must be hard. Fantastic environment
Hi friend gabriella
The hardest working women on TH-cam is back. The Slavic Princess, herself Alina
Very beautiful Armenia And very nice people
I like the view there...nice...
Looks peaceful and beautiful
I like how it was a real farm not a tourist trap with a few animals and a fancy cottage made specifically for tourists.
I hope you come to iran tehran because Armenia is our neighbor
Love Armenia from iran 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇦🇲🇦🇲
Would love to visit Iran sometime!
Excellent Alina Enjoyed it .🙏✌👍💙😎
Just waiting for your new vlog....from 5-6 days...I'm your biggest fan ❤️❤️❤️ You are so beautiful ❤️❤️
Very nice video🤗
Wow a nice and peaceful place.
Hi Alina 😊 what a diffrent day you had there, must have been really interesting to check out the farm life there🌞
Hope that you are ok?
Take care A!🤗🤗🤗
Hey Jonas, doing well, thank you! Hope you are as well!
There's something to be said about that simpler, rural life. Farm visit was great. Loved the cats.
Those are Armenian cats. Van was an Armenian region for millennia until the genocide.
Λατρεύω την Αρμενία από Ελλάδα ❤
Nice to see you again. Enjoy it.
Yes I would live there, farm on northern armenia. I love animals & don't mind working hard.
😍 Beautiful
Gorgeous countryside!
Animals are too much friendly with the woman. So cute.
Hi Alina 👋 ! - What an impressive farm & I hope it amounts to all that Irina hopes for. Her Animals seem very happy & healthy & I want a Turkish 🐈 ! See Ya 😃
whar a peaceful land and people. I just loved watchng this video
I think this is the way of life that I would like to live.In nature out of the big city.awesome video.💯💯😊😍👍👍
What a great tour! Irina's farm seems so nice and welcoming, and funny goats are always a plus. Nice to hear some Russian again, too!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much for such a nice and interesting video!
Hi Alina, good thing caught you now, wasn't able to get signal of the previous Lake episode.We have two typhoons right now, it's raining for almost two weeks now.
Would I live on a farm? Absolutely I would I imagine the work is hard, but the animals would be worth it, animals are better than most humans. Great video thanks for sharing.