Country Info
- T'bilisi
- Capital
- Lari (GEL)
- Currency
- 4,989,285
- Population
- GE
- Country Code
Georgia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Georgia
Welcome to Atlanta
This is a top pick! Tuning into any one of the various hip hop radio stations as I drive past spaghetti junction (where I-85 crosses I-285 just north of Atlanta) I start to feel the vibe that is Hotlanta, or maybe you prefer the dirty south. Ludacris, Outkast, JD and ...
Sidetracked in Savannah
This is a top pick! There was a TV show called Savannah a while ago. I don't remember much about the show, but I've wanted to check out Savannah ever since I saw it. I would never have gone to Savannah solely for the purpose of going ...
Tbilisi Market
This is a top pick! Tbilisi market ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- NEED HIGH QUALITY PHOTOS? ...
HOTLANTA!
This is a top pick! Day 121 May 4th - I wake early as I have a few Internet jobs to complete. Once these are done, I pack my stuff and throw out a few things. I'm flying with SpiritAIr, not only do they charge you to talk and smile, they also charge for carry on so I ...
Probably the best hot springs ever..........
This is a top pick! Set the alarm for 3am for sunrise but it is cloudy outside so we go back to bed. We are woken by the bing bong of the PA system at 7.30am for breakfast and it is still cloudy and a bit snowy. We have arrived at Deception Island. Curious name and ...
Georgian Hospital
This is a top pick! ... good place to make holiday or go skiing. With the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia entered a very difficult time. (see History of Georgia and the CIA world factbook). Finally we were called to the doctor's office ...
Hot,Damn Hot
This is a top pick! ... with my meal but it will cost ya,she smiled :-) When I was in New York people were saying "You're going to Georgia, Jeeze Buddy watcha yerslef, its dangerous down there!" before they drunkly disappeared to catch the subway at half one in the morning :-) ...
CRAZY RIDES TO SAN ANTONIO
This is a top pick! Hitchhiking east from the Grand Canyon, I got stranded for five hours in Flagstaff. Then, a crazy lady picked me up. She wasn't extravagantly crazy or dangerous - but she had her problems. And, it wasn't she who drove me to Albuquerque, but I who ...
Georgian Soul, part II
This is a top pick! ... , and he was the first western traveler I'd seen since Kyrgyzstan. Visiting the Tsminda Sameba Cathedral, the largest in Georgia and visible throughout downtown Tbilisi, I marveled at the paintings and lit a few candles, though the massive cathedral ...
Lightening those plane loads
This is a top pick! Apparently Atlanta's airport is the busiest in the world. Almost a million 'airplane movements' last year. While I am still waiting for a brave airline to start offering fares based on body weight (never in America because of the lard-ass lobby), ...
rafting the White Salmon
This is a top pick! I woke up at 7AM, had a shower, dropped camp and went for a big breakfast. A couple hours later I left on a white water rafting trip with Zollers on the White Salmon River. It was a 7 1/2 mile adventure filled with wicked white. I was ...
White Sands National Monument
This is a top pick! I left camp at 9AM and drove 18 miles to White Sands National Monument. Can you guess why they call it that? Well, the sand dunes formed over 250 million years ago when this region was at the bottom of the sea ...
Bakuriani - THE MOUNTAINS
This is a top pick! ... that I didn't notice my state while Baidi was with me. Anyway. Now she was gone. I didn't really care where we would go. Georgia seemed grey, sad and cold to me at the moment. Moreover I was sick. I missed Baidi. I couldn't stand being without her. So ...
Home sweet home!
This is a top pick! I'm home! Home! HOME! After 9 hours of sitting in the middle seat, I arrived in America! I can eavesdrop now, order food like a perfectly functional person, and say hello to Benjamin. Hartfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta is the biggest ...
Georgia national sites
This is a top pick! ... Site. I visited Jimmy Carter's boyhood home and toured its inside. I also drove by his current home in Plains, Georgia. I then drove another four or five hours south until I reached Tampa, Florida. ...
Home
This is a top pick! January 15, 05 Shanghai is the largest city in China. Beijing is the 2nd. Shanghai is a much different place. It's a new city with shining structures, modern shopping and entertainment centers all over. There is really no old section of the city ...
Planes, Trains, and......beaches???????
This is a top pick! ... history during the Revolutionary War as a bloody battlefield and continued with over 100 years of the Central of Georgia Railway's operations. I visited the massive roundhouse with operating turntable, saw the 125 foot industrial smokestack, examined the ...
Historic Savannah!
This is a top pick! "Savannah, Georgia. Established in 1733 to become a bustling port for exporting cotton and a city of culture whose architecture blended a variety of styles...Federal, English Regency, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Romanesque Revival and ...
CIVIL WAR
This is a top pick! I started the day at Stones River National Battlefield. It was at this site between December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863 during the Civil War that the Confederate Army of Tennessee fought the Union Army of the Cumberland which resulted in 30% ...
Probably the luckiest people in the world.........
This is a top pick! Last night we are told as the conditions are so perfect that we are going to continue south and see how the ice is. We may then get the opportunity to see the miles and miles ice sheets of the Antarctic and even Emperor Penguins. We set our alarm ...
Georgian Soul, part I
This is a top pick! ... next to the Marriot. EU flags, with their gold stars on blue, were next to many Georgian flags. Another sign said: "Georgia is part of Europe." Geographically, experts see Europe as ending at the divide of the Caucasus, where Prometheus was chained in ...
Colchis, Ancient Land of the Golden Fleece
This is a top pick! ... face the Mongols and Tamerlane, who killed 100,000 Georgian infidels who refused to convert from Christianity in one day. Still, Georgia survived. Behind me, they closed the doors early because of the snow and I walked back down to the bus stop, ...
Trabzon to Tbilisi
This is a top pick! ... Using a mix of English and Russian, they finally tell us that she can leave Turkey, but she wont be able to enter Georgia. "Why?" , I ask. "No visa!", they say. I answer: "impossible, I read it on the website of the Georgian embassy that she ...
Trabzon to Tbilisi, continued
This is a top pick! going back in the morning arriving at the embassy visa impossible, they don't have the prices, yet. calling the german embassy how can't you have the prices. everything impossible. german embassy can't call the embassy in turkey. ...
Will we, won´t we?
This is a top pick! I will endeavour to describe some of what we have seen, but photographs are really the best way to see what I am rambling on about. We weren´t sure if Antarctica would fulfil our expectations as we had seen the photos and programmes before. By the end ...
Black Sea
This is a top pick! The Black Sea came into view as the marshrutka descended to the shoreline. Orange groves and eucalyptus trees grew here, the landscape was more green. Still above in the hills, the deciduous forests were covered in snow. The relative warmth was ...
What a LOOOOOOOONG A** DAY!!!
This is a top pick! Photographed and got audio from a nurse who worked in the neo-natal unit at Columbia Hospital at Tulane and her family, who rode out Katrina at the hospital. It was an interesting experience in that their story had a happy ending. None of them planned to ...