Armenia. "Trip" to nuclear station

One of the evening was turning to be a boring one, so me and my friends decided to go out. Initially we wanted to go to the city, but then David (Armenian from Georgia) said "let's go to the nuclear station". Idea was sold fast and good.

So approxamitely at 5 p.m. we (me, Kostia (Ukrainian), David and Gio(my Georgian roommate)) left the house and headed to the bus station in order to go to Metsamor (name of the city near station). Bus trip took us approxamitely 1 hour.

When we arrived the city was already in a very sleepy mood and quite dark and the inhabitants were already settling for a sleep after a hard day.

Meanwhile four strangers to these places were seeking a road to the station. Some people in the street were quite surprised to our questions, but later were showing us the direction. Having finally found the road, we took a fast tempo and went.

It turned really dark and what was left was darkness, some red lights far away and our fears. Why fears? During the road we had some "funny" suggestions that we would be attacked by some monster-dogs fed on the nuclear waste. If talking serious stuff - the thing was that we didn't had any documents with us, and had two knifes. What is more funnier, I also discovered that I had a badge of Baku in my bag (it was a gift from a participant of the seminar in Odessa). Taking into the consideration the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, one can imagine what would be reaction of the guards if they decided to search us...

During our walking two cars came by. We tried to stop them in order to get some tips. But you know - one doesn't stop in the middle of the field, on the road to nuclear station to answer the question of four guys. 

Luckily, the third one was a police patrole car. Why luckily? Cause they agreed to take to the station. Moreover, if not for them, we would spent our night in jail. Cause, as we were explained, it's now allowed to walk to that post and take pictures or videotape. That is because it is the object number one of state importance. Why jail? See the apart with no passports above. Quite legitimate to me.  After some talking with police officers they took us to the nearest bus station, from which we headed home.

To conclude, out trip failed to achieve the main goal, to see the station from very close distance, but in return we got an interesting adventure. Swap approved. Another try to achieve the aim - pending...