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.

Roadtrip: Tbilisi, Georgia

I'm still catching up on our road trip we did in August, the 4000km is just the road itself, as we also drove within the cities we ended up driving close to 5000km. We stayed 3 night in Tbilisi, Georgia. We loved the city, here are a few of my favorite photos.

The old town has beautiful detailed wooden building, most do need some repair.

Generally the city is very green, I love green cities, makes it all so much friendlier.

The city has lots of beautiful details, we absolutely loved it and are planning to go back there soon.

This was the most touristic part of the city, but as soon as you walked a street or two back there wasn't a soul around. There were not many tourists, hardly anyone spoke English.

And even though we found the people grumpy, we loved the atmosphere of the city. It was clean and kind of magical.

We saw several beautiful mosaic details in buildings, and I loved this hand.

There are also some modern buildings of course.

The river Kura goes right through the city, so you often see the water, the city is built around it and ha plenty of bridges. We took a little boat trip on it. As it was still August and very hot we went early evening which was perfect as we also got the lovely light of nearing sunset. 

Most bridges were old, this one was very contrasting new but I loved the mixture of the old and the new. 

Some streets were like a green oasis, a relief also to get away from the hot sun. Tbilisi was much warmer than we anticipated and also humid, we won't go there again in the middle of the Summer.

A lot of the beautiful old buildings were in desperate need of repair and were empty, I do love the abandoned look but in time those buildings do get sadder which is a shame.

We almost drove across the entire country of Georgia, we loved Tbilisi the most, we also loved its flea market and beautiful antiques :))) I still have a few places to share from our long trip!