Roadtrip: Borjomi, Georgia

 

I'm ridiulously late with this post, back from our trip in August. After our 3 day stay in Tibilisi we stayed one night in Borjomi on our way back home. You can see our route in my previous post, we hardly used the same road back.

I have to say that my view of this place is a bit clouded due to the fact that our Airbnb was horrible, it spoiled the fun quite a bit, and like all the other Georgian places people were again very unfriendly. I did love the lacelike buildings.

Borjomi is especially famous for its wine and water. Both don't have my interest. I did love that just like Tibilisi the Kura river goes right through it, and it was very green.

It was much more touristic than Tiblisi, but we only stayed for about 18 hours.

In the center of this perk was a fountain which apperently gives youth, people were filling bottles. Entry to the park has a fee, I however had no purse with me but was still granted access after I asked the guard who was suprisingly friendly.

The river was visible from almost anywhere in tis little town.

My favorite part was a church which was in the middle of the forest.

You had to go through a very green road and eventually had to leave the car and continue on foot.

It was cool and fresh, unlike the other places we visited in Georgia which were all hot and humid.

The church was beautiful and I wished I had more photos of the inside but there was a very unfriendly nun who said NO PHOTOS!! I was taken them without flash or sound, I'm pretty sure it was because she was selling photos of the place.

Once she noticed me taking photos she kept following me and I was not allowed in one room because I was wearing shorts ://

But nasty nuns and priest skulls aside I found it beautiful.

To avoid our crappy Airbnb as long as possible, we stayed outside till dark but did find a wonderful place to eat right at the river.