After Serpentine had left, Racki and I went to the climbing area in the Botanical Gardens of Tbilisi.

The routes there were pretty much used and  interesting: most of them were top rope routes and instead of anchors to put your rope around, they have big metal pipes which are around twenty meters above the routes. So you have to walk up with your rope, throw it around the pipe and walk down again.

We did some climbing there, but it was not our favorite climbing crag but I used my super awesome new climbing shoes for the first time.

A friend of Cindy had given them to me for free and Serpentine had brought them from Germany. They were tied but awesome!

And my hands transformed into real climbing hands by losing all their upper skin layer. Or it was just my alien dinosaur skin renewing itself.

See the climbing area on The Crag.

After our hike from Mestia to Ushguli, Racki and Zdenko took the “main road” down from Mestia in Thor and Serpentine and I went with Rosinante down the “off-road track”.

The track was more of a construction site with a lot of gravel but the views were amazing!

We found a wonderful place to stay at a river and the next day we continued to Sveri because I wanted Serpentine to take the Via Ferrata and the awesome swing! And of course: she loved it!

This swing is just amazing! Really, go there! More about it in one of my last posts.

After our adventure in Sveri, we had to go to Tbilisi because Serpentine’s flight got rerouted to Tbilisi. So it was time to say goodbye again but not forever. I hope she will visit me again some day soon!