Our next stop was Kutaisi. There we met again with Ani and Zdenko and we got to know Ani’s couch surfing host who was a very nice guy from Russia who now lived in Georgia.
Together we went for dinner, explored the small city and we went into a rock bar. Unfortunately there was nothing going on in that rock bar. And when the waitress realized that we were from Germany, they started playing Rammstein. It was a pretty weird visit to that rock bar.
And we got onto a small festival in the main park of Kutaisi and danced to Georgian pop music. It was hilarious and so much fun!
Ani continued her journey and took the mountain pass we had taken before we met her.
Cindy and I wanted to go to a waterfall. On Google Maps the road leading there looked like a proper road. On Open Street Maps it looked different and a bit off-roady.
We decided to give it a try and quickly ended up in a famous off-road track. Rosinante did very well going up the small mountain on the very rocky track with a lot of stone steps.
Once we reached the upper part of the mountain, the track turned into a field of mud. Several cars already got stuck there and so did we with Rosinante. The first time, we managed to get her free on our own. The second time we asked somebody else to pull us out. After that we decided to park Rosinante at a nice spot and walk the rest of the way to the lake.
Suddenly while walking the track, Cindy recognized that she had lost her phone. We went back and looked hard for it. And we found it. It was just lying on a big metal pipe we had crossed before. And to both sides of the pipe there was water but the phone was just lying there in the only dry spot of the pipe. Several off-road cars must have crossed the pipe as well, but we just could pick it up again.
The lake was very beautiful and on the way there we saw one of the old UAZ Buchanka you can see often in Georgia. I love them.
After the hike, Cindy came up with the idea to surprise Ani, a friend of her who she had met on Cyprus for the first time. Ani was and still is traveling with a bicycle and super nice. When we met for the first time that day, she was already traveling with her bicycle for more than one and a half years.
We surprised her at the border from Turkey to Georgia with a bottle of Georgian wine. She was very surprised indeed and absolutely grateful for the nice surprise.
We put all her stuff and bike in Rosinante and went to a nice place next to a small river.
We had Pampe (our self made spread) with Shoti bread and had a super time together. It’s just awesome how many nice and special people you meet while traveling.
