Envoy Hostel Blog

When we are young we all have many dreams that we forget once we get older but some people always stay young and make their dreams a reality. Working at a hostel gives an excellent opportunity to meet enthusiastic people ready for many adventures and experiences. Often we hear many interesting stories and here is one of them that we want to share with you.

One of our great guests from Netherlands Bart Jan Vander Vorst stayed at envoy in the beginning of May. He has been travelling since he was ten and always keeping a journal where he wrote down everything about his travels. He has visited more than 70 countries and when he got his own blog he started sharing all his experiences with other travelers through his personal travel blog (www.travbuddy.com/biedjee).

Once a wise man told him that 30 was not the age to start growing up, 35 was. It was about a year ago when he suddenly realized that 35 was rapidly approaching and he had to put all his money together and start planning another great trip of his life. The most amazing part of his journey was that he decided to travel in the footsteps of Marco Polo, loosely following the ancient Silk Road through 20 countries from Europe to China, using nothing but public transport, without setting foot on a plane (it’s more fun if there’s more challenge!). At that point when he was in Armenia he had been already traveling for 7 weeks and was going to continue his voyage for another 9 months.

His trip to Armenia was not planned. Bart defines himself to be someone that never plans his tours so the decision to come to Armenia was made unexpectedly while visiting Turkey. The only thing that he couldn’t change was the shortage of time. He wanted to stay in the Caucasus for a longer time because he realized there were so many fascinating things yet to see in this region. One of his tips for future travelers was to try to have a longer stay in Yerevan; it is a great place to hang around and chill.

Although he never takes guided tours he took few of envoy tours because he didn’t have much time to organize everything on his own. That was really exciting to see that he wrote in his blog about Armenia and places he visited here ( In the afternoon we do some Christian…, A natural disaster,… and some Pagan).

Envoy staff wishes you safe roads and great experiences on your endless journeys.

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