Into the Caucasian Mountains
July 3rd 2009 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 Pushki
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