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Asia » Georgia » Northern Georgia » Georgian Military Road October 26th 2010

Spieramy się, czy Msheta to bardziej lokalny Kraków, czy Częstochowa - historyczne i religijne centrum kraju. Może Licheń? Ale stojaca tu wielka katedra, co wygląda jak nadmuchany mały kościółek jest przynajmniej odpowiednio stara. Wokół katedry też wrą prace remontowe. Za jakiś czas może tu być naprawdę ładnie. Dalej jedziemy do twierdzy Ananuri. Mijamy krajobrazy niczym z Nowej Anglii - liściaste żółto-karmazynowe lasy, znaczone zielonymi plamami sosen. Stopniowo podnosi się nasza przyjaciółka mgła, która dotąd niczym radziecka cenzura wyznaczała nam granice tego, co możemy zobaczyć. Wjeżdżamy na Kaukaz. Jednocześnie wyjeżdzamy z chmury, w której przebywaliśmy ostatnie dwa dni. Zatrzymujemy się, żeby robić zdjęcia - za każdym razem wydaje nam się, że to już widok ostatecznie piękny, a nasz kierowca uśmiecha się tylko pod nosem, ... read more

Jedno oko na Maroko, a drugie na Kaukaz.

HIKES IN THE GREATER CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS

Asia » Georgia » Northern Georgia » Georgian Military Road » Kazbegi September 30th 2010

Kazbegi

Viajerong Pinoy

Yerevan to Tbilisi minivan took only 5 hours mainly because the mad driver is flying like a race car driver, we felt all the bumps and dibs on the road as we were sat at the back, a brief lunch stop and made it to the border no problems. At the International bus station we took a cab for 10 larIs to the local station for Kazbegi, Tbilisi is nicer than Yerevan and I remember a few sights from my last visit here 3 years ago. At the station it took awhile to find the minivan to Kazbegi and when we did we waited for it to fill up, 2 other gringos in the van. Two Georgian dudes sat behind us next to Juan started drinking wine and offered us all to drink with them but ... read more

Glacier climbing, Mineral waters and fisticuffs in monasteries

Asia » Georgia » Northern Georgia » Georgian Military Road » Kazbegi August 31st 2010

4 Kazbegi - 31 July 2010

Sepulchre

It was time to get out of Tbilisi and to explore the rest of the country; Saventi, a region in the north sounded great - home to unique and isolated villages set in the Caucasus Mountains and a chance to do some walking as well as see the hundreds of stone towers that were built between the 9th and 13th centuries to successfully keep invaders out. The problem was that it would take a whole day to get there (and by an expensive jeep) it just wasn’t worth it unless I was in a group of people to share the costs. My alternative was a straight journey north along the Georgian Military Highway to the town of Kazbegi and just a few kilometers away from the Russian border. Set in the Caucasus Mountains it would also ... read more

Into the Caucasian Mountains

Asia » Georgia » Northern Georgia » Georgian Military Road » Kazbegi July 3rd 2009

Lunch with a view

ConnieF

Taking the Georgian Military Highway to Kazbegi and hiking in the Nature Reserve Stretching from Tbilisi to Russia via some of the most mountainous terrain on earth, the Highway has existed as a route since before the 1st century BC but was only a basic track. In 1783 the Russians converted it into a carriage road via a hurculean effort requiring more than 800 soldiers. In 1829 Pushkin and many other Russian writers such as Gorky and Tolstoy followed this route to Tbilisi. In 1883, following the opening of the railway via the Caspian coast, the road lost much of its' importance. The border was closed during the recent 2008 war between Georgia and Russia. However the Russians did not attempt to use this route for their attacks, as it is very easily defended with deep, ... read more

Kazbegi - no words to describe

Asia » Georgia » Northern Georgia » Georgian Military Road » Kazbegi July 24th 2008

View of Tsminda Sameba

zofka

The old man tries to speak to me in Russian - I try to respond. My minimal Slovene glossary come in handy now. He asks me where I am from. I answer Daniya. He says something about Daniya and gori (mountain). I laugh and make the motion of flat. He gives up and leaves me to my own thoughts. I sit quietly and rest while looking down upon the village of Kazbegi. I sit at Tsminda Sameba, the church that represents Georgia in every tourist brochure. Mt Kazbeg is on the West site of the church and the village at the East, - right under my feet. 14 kilometers to the North lies Russia. I am in the heart of the Caucasus Mountains. On the border between Europe and Asia. The drive to Kazbegi As I ... read more

Brief history of Georgia

The region of present-day Georgia contained the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Kartli-Iberia. The area came under Roman influence in the first centuries AD and Christianity became the state religion in the 330s. Domination by Persians, Arabs, and Tu...more history

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