4. Stepantsminda

2.10.2009

Arriving at Tbilisi


Tbilisi train station:




Georgian letters in the metro:


Trip to Stepantsminda by a "private taxi" (the 3hr trip cost totally 40 Lari (~20 Euro, ~7 per person))





Ananuri fortress (~70 km north of Tbilisi):




Sheeps crossing...




BTW, the mountain ridge on the left marks the "border" t0 South Ossetia.


Gudauri ski-resort, see http://www.gudauri.ge/:




A strange Soviet-style monument:










Our driver :




Cows on the road:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJ0PYcSQhE



At Stepantsminda:





The local restaurant...


Gas fountain from a pipeline...











3.10.2009


Short hiking trip to the Tsminda Sameba church:































Trip back to Tbilisi by marshrutka:









Arrival at Tbilisi Difube bus station (according to Lonelyplanet 'Didube bus station is a sprawling chaos outside Didube metro station')




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