Tag: dogs

Freestyle hiking in Georgia (July 2023)

Next stop was a very nice gorge in which we found a super nice camp spot.

We had a nice dog friend, made stick bread and did a pretty crazy hike. It started easy but soon the track ended in nothing and we continued going up the steeper and steeper slope. We even had to do some easy climbing to continue. It was pretty adventurous.

After some hours we reached the top and visited an impressive view point with a glass floor. Ani had some fear of heights but managed to face it.

After the hike we took the easy way back to our camp spot and we were gifted a lot of fruits by the locals.

Our tour on Komoot.

What a lost place: a night in Tskaltubo (July 2023)

The next day we went to Tskaltubo. What a place!

It’s an old, lost rehabilitation area from the Soviet times and it’s absolutely fantastic to visit it.

The whole area is as big as a small town and it’s full of abandoned buildings. Some of them are as big as hotels and some of them are not completely abandoned.

When we walked through one of these empty buildings out of the sudden one door opened and an elderly woman stepped out on the floor in front of us. Pretty exciting experience.

We parked Rosinante in the yard in front of one of the buildings and slept for one night in a kind of a big balcony.

When we were exploring this huge lost place, a real gang of stray dogs accompanied us. At times we had thirteen of these fellows with us. And everyone of them had thousands of parasite friends with him.

Before we left that place, Cindy cut the fur of one of them because he was towing a big bunch of it behind him and collected all sorts of stuff while doing so.

See it on Google Maps.

Wonderful multi-day hike in the Borjomi Natural Reserve (June 2023)

The weather got a lot better and so we searched for another hike in the Small Caucasus.

We found one in the Borjomi Natural Reserve and it was super beautiful. When we arrived at the ranger station at the start of the tour we had to pay some Euros to park Rosinante for three nights and the rangers were super friendly. And there were some cute puppy friends.

The next day we went up the mountain and found a wonderful place for our tent. We were the only people on that mountain, had a lot of fun on a water spring and watched the amazing sunset.

See our tour on Komoot.