Tbilisi, Georgia Travel Blogs

Tbilisi Market
Jan 13, 2006 (27 photos)

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Visiting Erik's Dad
Jan 11, 2006 (13 photos)

we went to visit the famous Georgian artist :-).

Georgian Soul, part II
Feb 13, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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 interior was ...

Georgian Soul, part I
Feb 2, 2008 (15 photos)

... 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 ...

Trabzon to Tbilisi
Jan 4, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

Different world
Jan 6, 2006 (50 photos)

Please take a look at my website: www.hermelinimages.com the first morning we wake up in Tbilisi, we are shocked. at night we could not observe our surroundings. as we open our eyes in daylightup, we take a look out of the windows. grey buildings are ...

Georgia Photos continued
Dec 22, 2004 (25 photos)

Some more photos from Georgia.

Batumi or Bust!
Aug 13, 2004

... of a road barrier, while another had driven off a 2 meter high bank and into someone's front yard. Nearer Tbilisi the weather settled a little, affording views over the countryside. Forested hills and golden corn fields were punctuated by industrial ...

Images of Loneliness
Sep 6, 2004 (34 photos)

Here are some photos from our journey into the mountains.

Places of Loneliness - Part 2
Sep 3, 2004

... 's miraculous appearance. "Thats Girevi through there! The OSCE chopper wouldn't be allowed to violate Russian airspace. Its still Georgia!" "I was just thinking the same thing," said Mike, smiling. We knew where to go but we were several hundred ...

A Close Call in Georgia
Sep 16, 2006 (11 photos)

I took a bus from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Tbilisi (population 1.7M), Georgia, and spent 8 hours on the road ($7). I should have taken an overnight train, since there wasn't much to see along the way. I hired an unofficial taxi after I crossed the border ...

Robbed, End of Journey
Jun 21, 2008

Hallo zusammen, nach meinen Ausfluegen in die Umgebung war ich noch frueh genug zurueck in Tblisi um mir die Stadt anzuschauen. Als ich allerdings auf den Huegel mit der Burg und der Kartlis Deda Statue wandern wollte sind mir doch zwei Jugendliche ...

The virgin sturgeon's a very fine fish.
Jul 30, 2008

... me to sleep - I got to 247 and was still wide awake so decided ear plugs would be a better solution. 9/. Wine tasting in Georgia is a wonderful way to start your day. Started with red which was half decent after all the awful stuff we had tried along the ...

Tiblisi
Oct 11, 2006

... write as it's then rained for 6 days straight, which made everyone quite miserable... Anyway, despite the rain I had a great time in Tiblisi. Went to some great restaurants, ate a lot of cheese pies and went to the ballet to see Giselle. Bravo! etc.

tbilisi and kazbegi
Dec 4, 2006 (8 photos)

... in 20 minutes, a period of time in which we observe at least 2 russian vehicles coming from the border and heading toward tbilisi. thanks Friend. you seemed like such a nice guy. i think, though, that this behaviour is not typical of georgians. ...

Georgia, part 1
Sep 11, 2008 (72 photos)

... and some gypsy children who can be pretty importunate hanging on one's leg. Although Tbilisi is relatively a dirty place, *all* people throughout the whole Georgia and Armenia are quite nicely and spotlessly clean dressed [though traditionally - grey-scale ...

Georgia On My Mind!
Jul 25, 2009 (1 photos)

... Baz and myself in the Landy, we travel led across Azerbaijan without too much trouble and arrived at the border with Georgia in the late afternoon. After the 'excitable' customs officers and the ridiculous bureaucracy of the entry into Baku, we were ...

Killer
Oct 11, 2006

We've been playing Killer for the last couple of days - you draw out a name, a murder weapon and a truck location and have to touch that person, with those weapons, in that location. For example Bob, with a water bottle, by the stairwell. Each person you ...

Arrived in Tbilisi
Jun 19, 2008 (8 photos)

Gamarjobat, ich bin heute erfolgreich in Tbilisi angekommen. Urspruenglich hatte ich ja ueberlegt erst einmal noch irgendwo ins Land zu fahren, da ich aber an einem Bushof ankam, von dem keine Orte angefahren werden, die mich interessieren, habe ich ...

Jun 21, 2009
Jun 21, 2009 (12 photos)

Tbilisi
Jun 18, 2006 (5 photos)

... we've had a blast. It didn't start well though - a word of advice, should you find yourself in Tbilisi avoid the Hotel Morkinali like the plague. It barely escaped the last earthquake and clearly all the guests have been chain ...

adventures with mercenaries and flashfloods
Jun 30, 2009

... over. ...We found a small steep side road that led us to a spot just beside the Knesi river (which runs through Tbilisi). Having evaded the Russian militia we were happy enough to park just about anywhere. Stopping by the river allowed us to wash some of ...

getting things sorted before the wilderness
Jul 1, 2009

Massively unimpressed with Tbilisi and tired from our miserable, we were eager to find our campsite for the night and moved on past Rustavi. By chance we came across a row of garages and decided to try and get the crankcase repaired as it was slowly ...

Gamarjobat!
May 8, 2008 (2 photos)

... the main highway from the airport after the American president is one of these efforts, but it surely cannot destroy. In sleeping Tbilisi the most bolding landmarks we could see in the late hour we arrived, besides the weird "lighthouse" on the ...

Tbilisi 2...
Jun 18, 2006

... game that required you to steer a frog across the road without it getting squished. That game, we can report, is based on Tbilisi - where your intrepid reporters spent so much time trying to cross a standard Soviet era 6 lane road in the middle of town ...

Locked up in Georgia
Apr 24, 2009

... Georgian, so I was careful not to get too close to the Georgian ladies. But plagued by Mamluks, Mongols, Ottomans and Soviets Georgia has had it rough. It was only in 1991 that it was once again declared an independent country. But by 1992 it was ...

Nakhvamdis, Sakartvelo
May 17, 2008 (5 photos)

... this trip still gives hope that I will come back to this country once again. But who knows? Our last stop in Georgia was Tbilisi International Airport. The new George W. Bush Highway leads to the small airport. In many places, this size of an airport ...

Back to Georgia
Aug 16, 2009 (4 photos)

We felt the famous Georgian hospitality right at the border: we got a lift to Tbilisi without asking. From there it was only 10 km and an easy bus ride to Mtskheta, the ancient capital of the country and still its spiritual one, where we planned to spend ...

Tbilisi
Nov 14, 2007

Tbilisi

Sword and wine
Jul 31, 2009 (5 photos)

There is a huge 30m statue on a hill top by Tbilisi, named Kartlis Deda (Mother Georgia). On her right hand she holds a sword, and on her left, a bowl of wine – a perfect metaphor of the Georgians, who are very hospitable to their guests, but fight ...