Travel Blog Photos from Kazbegi (23)
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![]() | Kazbegi, Georgia |
Two nights up in the mountains right on the border with North Ossetia in Russia. Ossetia is a breakaway region in the Caucasus so we were a bit nervous when we decided to head up there in Daphne our truck. Our nerves weren't helped by the Lonely Planet ...
... . Dinner was served at Nazi's dining room at 20:00. Considering the fact the there is no nightlife in Kazbegi (and neither in Georgia, I don't remember if I mentioned it before), your host family's living room is the best place to spend the evening in. ...
... was to reach the Gergeti Glacier at 3000m. So with bread and honey in hand I began hike having nothing but the beacon of Mount Kazbegi to guide me, that was, until Napala decided to tag along. Although he didn't speak a word of English, he proved to be an ...
... later be released by Herakles (Hercules). It was fromthis vantage point that I gazed into Russia and Chechnya as we could not go any further north as the border between Georgia and Russia is closed for everyone. Grozny and Beslam were so close!