it could be great it could be an absolute bust but who knows we'll
just have to head over there and find out for ourselves i am definitely getting stared at
it's really good it's really sweet so far this festival is blowing us away
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today we are headed to a festival about two and a half hours south of yerevan it's called the gata
festival which is actually a type of bread and we are headed there because a local a little while
before we came to armenia had told us that we were going to be here during the festival and then we
should go check it out so we're headed there now all that we really know is that they're going
to make the largest bread largest garden in the world and cut it up and there will be singing and
dancing so we don't really know what to expect it could be great it could be an absolute bust
but who knows we'll just have to head over there and find out for ourselves yeah
so the road is gorgeous but it is not for the faint of heart it's so scary we are so high
pretty sure we made it there's lots and lots of people here which is exciting we saw tons
of marshykas like vans and even some tour buses so i think we have a real festival on our hands
all right we've jumped out of the car and we're walking over to where we hear the music there's
definitely a lot of people here and a lot of cars parked so it's something's definitely happening
some kind man just handed me a walnut he said something in a language i don't know
i think it was nice fun look at this
cool i think this is just not something we expected after about
two three hours of driving into the countryside of armenia i don't think
we ever would have found this if you were just driving around
get a piece of jewelry i
i am definitely getting stared at i'm pretty sure i'm the only asian here
even the little kids
so what we've learned about the gata festival so far is that it's a festival that gathers around
all the local communities and villages and they put on a big market
and at the center of the entire festival is a large piece of gata bread i think the largest
in the world and then distribute it out to all the people that are at the festival
so we've got our first view of that and it's massive already
stop
is traditional armenian bread
and it's a sweet kind of pastry usually can be decorated and filled with many different things
i don't know what this one is filled with but we're hoping to try to get a piece for ourselves
nicole's up there trying to get a piece of bread there's so many people but good
thing that got the bread that we saw is like a couple meters in diameter
there's so many people walking around with bags of bread
i thought we might run out but there's so much more
thank
so all it is is a piece of sweet armenian bread
and they make the world's largest here during this festival
it's very sweet but i think this
weakness good it's a little dry it's really good it's worth the wait
i wonder if they have different fillings for different
sections i mean the whole thing was like a couple meters in diameter
yes especially if you make the biggest one in the world
just like that it's all gone definitely festival it's so cool
do you want one
i got you one thank you oh you're just warm it's cold payback how was it warm it's really good
cheers
it's like juice tastes like juice like it is juice it's it's really good it's really sweet
i see it
yeah
oh
so what did you think of the wine it was so good is my mouth purple
it's not a bee it's amazing they're so sweet armenian people are so kind we offered to buy
the wine or the cups of wine that they gave us but they wouldn't let us pay they're so nice
so far this festival is blowing us away
sweet
i've had this before
that's very good it's so good i'm so glad we came here i'm learning so much about armenia
it's awesome
music
huh
oh
harder than i expected there aren't that many steps oh that was great that was fun
you were pretty coordinated though i don't know that i was very coordinated it looked pretty good
it was pretty cute because like um the fella who i was next to was like trying to teach me
and he was doing good job but then the person on the other side of me the young woman was like
doing it a little differently so i felt a little uncoordinated but by the way whatever it was fun
i'm sorry
that's the second person who tried to ask me that that's what the other person was trying to say
that's what he was saying old age you think age age and i'm like what do you mean age
he's like old age and i was like i'm sorry i don't know what you said
one minute what did you tell them earlier when your dad sick oh no they were just
so sweet like they they finished uh dancing or while we finished dancing
and i just uh i looked at them and said it's so hard and they just like
erupted into giggles like you're so hard they're adorable they seem really sweet
foreign
okay
those are our biggest fans in armenia right now what did we get ourselves into today
oh it's been epic
daddy
we are leaving the gata festival and i think the only reason we're managing to get away from it is
because we know we have incredible views on our drive home but that was so fun i did not expect
that to unfold the way it did i honestly thought it might be a bit of a bust i don't even think
that maybe the festival was even on i really felt we were like in the middle of nowhere we're like
are we sure we're at the right spot or is this even happening it just really felt like an
authentic armenian experience people were so kind and were so you know happy to talk to us and gave
us some free wine and some free desserts it was so good oh man we had such a wild time we have really
fallen in love with this country so definitely if you got the time and you're able you're in
the country at the right time you definitely got to check out the gatta festival it was so awesome
found what we're looking for in life call us crazy but things
we don't need no more
lots of farm fields as we drive smells like poop
also there's lots of people singing and dancing around it
just in case you missed them
i want them to play wonder wall do they take it's one of those
one of those travel dreams that you have and um oh crap i'm winding on an i'm sorry and i guess
it's such a big piece of bread it usually kind of breaks a world record of how big the bread is
i