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.

Visiting Kutaisi with friends, dancing to Georgian pop music (July 2023)

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!