Georgia & Azerbaijan 2019- Page 4Album

Good breakfast for 15 GEL per person.

Took a private taxi from Kazbegi/Stepantsminda to Truso Valley for 100 GEL per car (will pick us up at predetermined time). The weather is cloudy, but it is still a pleasant long walk (6h for returns). The landscape is pretty amazing, flat and vast, flanked by mountains. The end of the trail is Zakagori Fortress, with an army camp at the base. The fortress ruin is on top of a hill, so we get a pretty great view of the surrounding landscape. It started raining on our way back, and it is freezing cold. Luckily we found cover by the path, and ate our packed lunch and wine. Overall it is a pleasant walk with beautiful landscape, definitely recommended.

This is like a cafe restaurant, more expensive than Pikolo, but taste pretty good. We finally got a taste of Adjaruli Khacapuri, the Kachapuri with an egg at the center. We order Kharcho (beef soup) and Chikhirtma (chicken soup) to keep our body warm after the rainy hike.

We hike from the town towards Gergeti Trinity Church. The path is pretty scenic, going through a village and forest.

We continue hiking from Gergeti Trinity Church towards Gergeti Glacier. We bump into a herd of sheep's, which was fun. The path is nice. Soon it started to snow, probably because it was drizzling too much. It starts to get quite cold, and our pace slowed down significantly. Luckily we have enough warm clothing, but it was not easy. After a long while we reach a hut, with heating and food, thank goodness. We order some soup, try to dry some clothing by the fire heater, and enjoy our coffee. The snow is quite heavy near on the path forward, and we can hardly see the group going up in such weather. We decide to give up on reaching the glacier, and turn back to Trinity Church instead.

Visit Gergeti Trinity Church on our way down from Gergeti Glacier. The church is nice, with quite a view. We took a shared van back to to town (10 GEL per person).

We went back to Vitamin for dinner, since we like the food. 65 GEL for 3 person.

We hop on a Marshrutka in Kazbegi's main street to go back to Tbilisi (10 GEL per person).

We book ourselves into a very nice yet affordable hotel. The room is really gorgeous and comfortable. I wish we have time to stay longer. Absolutely nice decoration, with a bathtub, and the location is convenient.

We didn't realized this is a fine dining restaurant, so they served tiny portion. Somehow we are quite disappointed, probably due to misaligned expectations, and we try to share the dishes (this is not how fine dining works). We are hoping for the usual Georgian large size serving and delicious food. I guess the food is good due to the high google ratings, but we are just not in the mood for fine dining, and the waiters seems frustrated with us as well.

Tbilisi is a beautiful and vibrant city. It is very comfortable to walk around, with beautiful buildings, architecture, churches and parks along the way.

Perhaps it looks nice at night, or my photography skill sucks.

Quite a huge park. A lot of people came here, so there are all sort of activities. There are art installations, concert hall and a play ground.

Take the cable car at Riker Park towards the hill of Mother of Georgia. It should have a nice view of Tbilisi at the top.

Narikala is an old Fortress, together with St. Nicholas Church. For me, the highlight would be the splendid view of Tbilisi. Plenty of walls to climb.

Tbilisi old town at night.

We took a bolt from the old town to this restaurant. Bolt is like an Uber, and the apps just works without much problem for first time user. The dinner should be good, but we probably order too much and we are too tired. Stll, nice ambience and service.