Photo by Winfried Werzmirzowsky
Text by Hripsime Badalyan, whl.travel local connection
in Yerevan, Armenia

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This photo was taken by one of our clients from Germany. It is of a ‘wish tree’ in the southern part of Armenia, in the Syunik region. You can find such trees in many places across Armenia, but usually they are found close to churches, monasteries and chapels. Legend has it that a wish will come true after a person ties his or her handkerchief to a tree branch and walks around the tree seven times.

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whl.travel is slowly but surely lifting into more visible flying space. Despite the tumult of these financially unstable times and while other travel companies contract, whl.travel continues to expand, reaching across and deep into new destinations, refining content and improving access to it, striking up new collaborative relationships with other players that share sustainable and responsible tourism values and even working on new joint ventures with some of the tourism industry’s better-known players (stay tuned for these announcements).

“I think you will be seeing a lot more of whl.travel in the media over the coming months,” said Len Cordiner, CEO of whl.travel. Boy is he right.

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