What do you know about Georgia? Small country somewhere among caucasian mountains, and a sea, khachapuri, borjomi... And what do you know about georgians?
Really hospitable hostess of our favorite cafe Mkinvari cooked special for us homemade georgian khinkali (the pride of this region) and huge portion of khachapuri with chicken.
You know, never before in any cafe I'd had this feeling of home, feeling like you came to relatives, who you just hadn't seen for long. And finally you met, they made a nice dinner, and now you are just chilling on the backyard of their house in shadow of vine. If it's not some caucasian charm, when I don't know what it is...
And with this charm we'll be faced a lot of time during our big journey thru Caucasus. Well for instance, what unusal can happen during the mini-bus trip to Tbilisi?
Paid 20 lari for two, we took most comfortable seats, to make shots of all landscapes, what'd appear outside the window.
Good we were alone in the whole bus so we could jump from seat to seat in trying not to skipsheeps the best views of Georgian Military Road.
Noticed that, the driver offered us to sit on the front seats with big windshield. It seems a trifle, but... Throughout the way georgian were telling us about the most interesting places of this route, and sometimes even stopped for awhile just to let us take photos.
So in Ananuri we made a stop near the ancient fortress, towering above splendid azure lake, and while we were taking photos and enjoying the scenery, he bought ice creams for us.
Ice creams! Where is that also possible?
Total time of the way is a bit more than two hours, but it flies by so quickly, that's why I strongly advice, if you're staying in Tbilisi, take your time and go by bus to Kazbegi. You'll go thru magnificent Cross pass, ski resort Gudauri, Ananuri and Mtskheta.
By the way, exactly in sunny Mtskheta, what'd captivated us on the way, we came back (for 1 lari), as soon as got to Tbilisi. According to wiki, it's the oldest town of Georgia, and also, it was illustrated by Mikhail Letmontov in poem The Novice:
Day III. Cross pass
We got up in the early morning, full of energy and ready to new impressions. And we had a lot of plans for the day: at least we needed to get to Tbilisi, and moreover find there an overnight stay, but first... Breakfast!Really hospitable hostess of our favorite cafe Mkinvari cooked special for us homemade georgian khinkali (the pride of this region) and huge portion of khachapuri with chicken.
You know, never before in any cafe I'd had this feeling of home, feeling like you came to relatives, who you just hadn't seen for long. And finally you met, they made a nice dinner, and now you are just chilling on the backyard of their house in shadow of vine. If it's not some caucasian charm, when I don't know what it is...
And with this charm we'll be faced a lot of time during our big journey thru Caucasus. Well for instance, what unusal can happen during the mini-bus trip to Tbilisi?
Paid 20 lari for two, we took most comfortable seats, to make shots of all landscapes, what'd appear outside the window.
Good we were alone in the whole bus so we could jump from seat to seat in trying not to skip
Noticed that, the driver offered us to sit on the front seats with big windshield. It seems a trifle, but... Throughout the way georgian were telling us about the most interesting places of this route, and sometimes even stopped for awhile just to let us take photos.
So in Ananuri we made a stop near the ancient fortress, towering above splendid azure lake, and while we were taking photos and enjoying the scenery, he bought ice creams for us.
Ice creams! Where is that also possible?
Total time of the way is a bit more than two hours, but it flies by so quickly, that's why I strongly advice, if you're staying in Tbilisi, take your time and go by bus to Kazbegi. You'll go thru magnificent Cross pass, ski resort Gudauri, Ananuri and Mtskheta.
By the way, exactly in sunny Mtskheta, what'd captivated us on the way, we came back (for 1 lari), as soon as got to Tbilisi. According to wiki, it's the oldest town of Georgia, and also, it was illustrated by Mikhail Letmontov in poem The Novice:
"Once, not so many years ago,
where soundingly together flown,
Aragva and Kura - the place,
where, like two sisters, they embrace,
there stood a monastery. Still
The traveller who comes down the hill
sees pillars of a crumbling gate"
sees pillars of a crumbling gate"
For 15 lari you can found a driver, who gets your (way back for another 15) to the top of the hill, where downhill soundingly together rivers flow. In sum, Lermontovn is known here and loved,
Sea boat shaped with sunny egg inside this incredibly yummy khachapuri is originally from Ajaria, but in the first time we ate it here in Mtskheta.
Sasha, by the way, who'd ate few different kinds liked that most.
We came back to Tbilisi only at 6pm. The Sun was going down, and it was pretty cozy to stay outside. Seems like nice time to careless walk aroung the city, seesighting, people sighting, quaint label on georgian sighting, but watch out!
Have parents told you, to be careful, when you're crossing the road? So in Tbilisi you have to be very careful! While we were walking around the city looking for new charger, I was nearly knocked down by car several times. Cars here didn't stop, at all. All the next times I tried to avoid crosswalks, and changed sandals to sneakers to run faster. No kidding.
By the way, we'd passed about 6 kilometers before we finally found the charger in a little store. For some weird reasons store in that part of the city were united by type, but it was nothing, especially, when you have charged phone, plenty of new impressions and, success!.. Sasha found a place for overnight.
In the next post is walking through sunny, rainy and really contrasty Tbilisi .
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