Jenia Ustinova
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Month 10 Roundup
STATS Days on the road: 305Number of beds: 13Countries visited: Vietnam, Russia (16 hrs!), GeorgiaPostcards sent: 0 THOUGHTS It’s been about two weeks since we left southeast Asia for Europe. Its strange – even though we’ve reached our limit of mangos, rice paddies, and scooters as the main mode of transportation – we miss it. Not that…
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1 July 2014 – Tbilisi, Georgia
Another night time walk around Tbilisi, this time by the holy trinity cathedral in the Avlabari neighborhood. Our last day in this wonderful city.
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30 June 2014 – Mtskheta, Georgia
Walking route to Jvari church from Mtskeheta turned out to be super simple – despite the guidebook threatening us with a hard and tedious trek. Totally worth it too considering taxis were trying to charge something ridiculous like $10. Views are a bonus )
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29 June 2014 – Tbilisi, Georgia
Walking around Avlabari, aka the Armenian neighborhood, in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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28 June 2014 – Tbilisi, Georgia
A walk around downtown Tbilisi, a look at the Freedom Square.
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27 June 2014 – Tbilisi, Georgia
Hanging out in Tbilisi on the historic day of the country’s signing of an association agreement with the EU. It was pretty unreal – fireworks, concerts, people celebrating everywhere.
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26 June 2014 – Tbilisi, Georgia
Night time view of Tbilisi from the Narikala fortress.
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25 June 2014 – En route to Tbilisi, Georgia
Most definitely our worst, most dangerous transport day on this trip. Welcome to Georgia, where a bus ticket gets you a seat in a private minivan from hell – otherwise known as our epic 9 hour, 3 different buses commute from Mestia to Tbilisi.
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24 June 2014 – Mestia, Georgia
Another beautiful hike around Mestia, Georgia. This time we made our way up past the airport to climb atop the most unreal hill of wild flowers.
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23 June 2014 – Mestia, Georgia
Hanging out on a mountain — this time no hike, very easy and pleasant — hitched a ride to the chairlift (~8 km from Mestia) and then onwards and upwards by the mechanical wonder. The image is of mountain Ushba, which refused to part with the clouds on that day.
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22 June 2014 – Mazeri, Georgia
We’ve made it past the guard dogs, hiked up the stream, criss crossed the forest, and climbed high high above Mazeri for this little dinky lake. Oh well. Still pretty gorgeous. Another great day hiking around Mazeri.
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21 June 2014 – Mazeri, Georgia
At the top of Ushba glacier! It took us only 5.5 hours (!!) Seriously the Ushba glacier hike was the most physically demanding trek we’ve done on this trip, but how cool is it to climb up to a glacier?! pretty cool. At the top its a little windy, chilly, somewhat snowy, and a whole lot…