In April and May I went travelling around the Caucasus, spending a lot of time in Georgia. Georgia is currently the hot place for travel bloggers to visit and write about. You’ll find many blog posts on it but these are the tips that would have helped me before I went. Some of them are …
Uplistsikhe is located in Georgia, 10km from Stalin’s home town of Gori. It’s carved into the rocks on the left bank of the River Mtkvari. It’s often referred to as Cave Town (not to be confused with the Cave Monastery, Vardzia in the south) and has a significant position in Georgia’s religious, political and cultural …
Ushguli is a community of four small villages located near the Russian border in Georgia. It’s situated at 2,100 metres (6,900 ft) in the Caucasus Mountains, making it the highest inhabited settlement in Europe. So far it’s unspoilt by tourism but I can see this changing over the next 5 years. While it’s still an underdeveloped …