Tbilisi
Travel Blogs from Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi Market
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Georgian Hospital
... 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 ...
Georgian Soul, part II
... 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 interior ...
Georgian Soul, part I
... 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
... 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
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. ...
Tbilissi Arts Academy
... , Roland, is a famous painter and sculpturist throughout the country who already has works on permanent display in the Georgia National Arts Gallery. Eric (his Georgian name is Erekle) himself studies to be a restaurator of artistic and archeological ...
Different world
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 ...
Batumi or Bust!
... 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 ...
Over the frontier, the road to Georgia
... visiting. In Tblisi, the rich are very rich, but only 10 % are rich, and of course corrupt. So Tbilisi has many Casino's. One American said 'If Georgia is so poor, then why do you have so many casinos?" she laughed quietly. "Ahhh life was good before, ...
Places of Loneliness - Part 1
... he was unhurt and it turned into a bit of an international incident when the British embassy got involved. We headed north from Tbilisi on the Georgian Military Highway. This was built by the Russians in the 1800s to link the Georgian capital and ...
Places of Loneliness - Part 2
... '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 ...
Mamuka's family rulez!!
... nas "na lopatki". Kazdego dnia cos sie dzialo, gdybysmy nie protestowali, to zwiedzilibysmy zapewne wszystkie monastyry i muzea w Tbilisi i okolicach ;). Co wieczor byla organizowana "supra" w coraz to wiekszym gronie rodziny, przyjaciol i znajomych Esmy ...
Former Capital
Hallo zusammen, von Gori bin ich dann zurueck gen Tblisi gefahren. Kurz vor Tbilisi liegt Mtskheta, die alte Hauptstadt Georgiens. Heute ist sie Weltkulturerbe fuer ihre alten Kirchen, es gibt auch eine alte Burg, aber die ist nicht so interessant. Die ...
A Close Call in Georgia
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
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 ...
Day 13 - Nouveau Capital
Today, the rally takes us 240km to the capital of Tbilisi. As it is a fairly easy drive, we stopped by Nikortsminda Orthodox church to check out one of the holiest places in the country. It was nice, but was under massive renovation, somewhat ...
The virgin sturgeon's a very fine fish.
... end 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 ...
Tblisi
And back to Tblisi. After the failure of Turkey to excite (journal will be updated retrospectively), the Caucasus have been a delight. Full of hidden churches set in fairy tale forested valleys and monasteries perched precariously atop deep gorges with ...
Georgian Water
We started to get bored of the northeastern territory of Turkey and decided that Georgia was our next exotic destination. We left Yusufeli, a dry desert like town, and followed one of the fastest rivers in the world down to the Black Sea where it was ...
First Church this Trip, Definately not the Last!
... Moedani (doesn't matter) station. In the square (moedani in Georgian means "square"), there is a big golden statue of St. Georgia, Tbilisi city hall, big park, several hotels, British embassy and more. It could have been a lot more impressive if we could ...
Wine - Lifeblood of Georgia
... to Sighnaghi this time. After eight or ten performances, which included traditional dances from all over Georgia and local songs (including one solo emotional song about Tbilisi) - a wind has started and the weather became unpleasant. We've seen a lot ...
tbilisi and kazbegi
... 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
... 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 - ...
Arrived in Tbilisi
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 ...
Churches
... she may have even kissed the ground, Pope style. All the churches we visited had unpronounceable names (actually everything in Georgia is unpronounceable except the word Georgia) but each had a fascinating history behind it. They dated back to the 6th ...


