Travel photos and journals from across Asia [1997-2025]
Day 22 to 24 Tbilisi It was time to take the Mitsubishi back to Tbilisi, a two-hour drive away. The beast had performed well, despite being a little underpowered, and the drive back was uneventful aside from the last ten minutes of traffic lunacy in the capital and Google Maps sending us down tiny back…
Day 20 Kvareli The drive to Kvareli was a short one at just 40 minutes, so we killed some time checking out sights on the way, such as Gremi’s Archangels’ Complex, a 16th-century church and castle and the Kvareli Wine Cave. The wine tunnel was built in the Soviet era to store wine and was…
Day 18 Gudauri to Telavi Today was a driving day, and the weather had turned pretty grim for the first time on the road trip, with low clouds and fog. We diced with the hundreds of trucks that ply the E117 and drove down out of the mountains and onto more rural roads that would…
Day 16 Gudauri It was a short drive to our next stop at the popular ski destination of Gudauri, so we stopped off for a quick hike to Arsha waterfall. From there, it was back down the E117 to the Kobi gondola (cable car) … which was not running. We also stopped at the Jvari…
Day 12 Tbilisi to Stepantsminda Our whirlwind stay in Tbilisi came to a premature end, but we’d be back. The city had a youthful vibe to it that we didn’t experience in more conservative Türkiye, and I suspect it will change a lot over the next decade with development in the name of “progress”. Today,…
Day 11 Türkiye to Tbilisi Today was our flight to Georgia, and after a battle with the traffic and a very unpleasant stint in SAW airport (one of the worst I’ve ever been through), we were crammed onto the two-hour Pegasus flight to Tbilisi. After navigating past a grumpy immigration officer and finding an ATM,…