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Gori Slideshow
Gori
Travel Blogs from Gori, Georgia
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Day 12 - Zagor Pass
... one of the toughest and most spectacular parts of our trip, not only because the road runs in the Higher-Svaneti region of Georgia near the Russian border, but it passes by medieval villages, permanent glaciers and 5000 meter high snow-covered peaks. The ...
Stalins Hometown
Hallo zusammen, am Morgen bin ich nach Gori gefahren, 60km von Tbilisi entfernt. Hier wurde Josef Dzhugashvili geboren, besser bekannt als Josef Stalin. Die Stadt hat eine grosse Stalin Avenue, mehrere Stalin Statuen, ein Stalin Museum, Stalins ...
Stalin's Pride
... beverage that has many tasted but not lemon?). Afterwards we bought tickets for the BUS (the only one we had in Georgia) that took us from Gori in a bumpy road directly to Didube central station in Tbilisi for the last time. Well, we thought ...
Gori
Our next stop - a flying visit to Gori, Stalin's birthplace, en-route to the mountains. Gori is home to the largest statue of Stalin remaining anywhere in the world - the town appears to remain quite fond of him and so it's natural that they also have ...
Jun 20, 2009
Telavi
Fyrstu nóttina í Georgíu gistum við á einkaheimilum nk. B&B. Ég var hætt að komast yfir það að skrifa daglega það sem ég var að sjá og heyra en ætla að reyna að setja myndir inn á þetta og athuga svo hvað ...
Natural Soda
... of the marshrutkas was so accurate, and they mostly left the central stations precisely on time. Typical for Germany, not necessarily Georgia. The marshrutka to Borjomi left on time, as I expected, and arrived at Borjomi after a little less than 2 ...
Touring the Shire
... that noise you would instead have seen a rather hysterical Ben tearing wildly toward the nearest housestead. Georgia to date was one of the best countries I experienced. It's a little bit like hobbit land. Parked between ...
My First Days in Georgia
... between them: trash, ugly buildings sloppily built and even more sloppily maintained, lousy customer services (this is better in Georgia), expressionless faces in the public, lack of eyes contacts. But the women dress much more casually and ...
Where Stalin was born
... sure it's not nice for the people. This was the first time during my stay in Georgia that anything reminded me about the war. Gori seemed to be a quite nice regular town, nothing special, nothing annoying. The main reason I went there ...
Uplistsikhe
GEORGIA
... most all others anywhere. Georgia is a country of contrasts from it's Christian beliefs, medieval churches, Castles, and a growing awareness Georgia sits squarely in the centre of east meets west with a bevy of cultural and ethnic components. Everyone can ...
Georgia
... really hard! It was so slow in the boiling heat, at least they didn't want to search the truck & all its contents! Georgia is absouletly stunning! The most gorgeous scenery so far! Its a very poor country though. Tis my birthday today & i'm ...
Apr 10, 2011
Gori and Uplitsikhe
... the town of birth of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin and it features a museum of dubious reputation. The museum presents the heroic face of the man who continues to be the pride of many Georgians. Uplitsikhe is an ancient cave city situated outside ...
Gori ja Eesti saatkond
... 'limust, tuleks fantaasia piire uljalt nihutada. Samas ei olnud tegu maalinguga;) Kontsert oli kohalikus muusikakoolis (Sulkhan Tsintsadze nim Gori Muusikakool) ja see oli esimene kord, kui kohalik orgunn töötas nii nagu peab. Publik võttis meid ...
GEORGIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA
... surrounded the town which appeared to be a real backwater. My main concern was getting back through the border to Georgia that night,without incurring the wrath of the border guards,if they realised that I had sneaked through.There did not appear ...
Home sweet home
After the funny days in Batumi, Leo, the Georgian guy, invited us to his home in Sachkere. Actually it was atiny little village on a hill, located near Sachkere, but i cant remember the name... His mother and older brother welcomed us (Urs, the swiss ...
Gori
Stalin never did anything wrong in his life...
... overtaking car on the highway, and the kid next to us wasn't all that annoying.. Homestay The lonely planet suggested one homestay in Gori, but didn't have a map. By some miracle, we found the place: a ragged-looking inner court where a man was building a ...
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