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Azerbaijan Visa

Posted on 19. Jun, 2009 by yoyo.

 Since the regulation changed lately the visa requires an LOI. it can be purchased, expensively, from stantours. or from a Tbilisi travel agent Vanilla Sky. there are more companies, I had mine through Vanilla Sky. Irma, the Tourism Manager speaks perfect English and is very nice. procedure take 10-14 days, sometimes only 5. with the [...]

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Georgia Directory

Posted on 11. Jun, 2009 by yoyo.

Goods:

 Easy to find what you are looking for 
Cheap public transportation
Very nice and helpful people
Diverse and welcoming attractions
Never felt cheated

Bads:

Accomodations - not cheap (20 GEL usually)
Khachapuri - not always fresh
Crossing the street = Kamikazi
Poor English
Smoking - everywhere and all the time

Oddities:

4 shops in 1: try to pay getting out, but no, they have different cashiers for the [...]

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Bear-Dreams in Borjomi

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by yoyo.

 Hardly catching the last Marshutka (19:00PM, Didube station, 7 GEL, 2.5hr) we arrived at Borjomi pretty late. 3 local policemen took us in their police-car, summing at 6 people, and helped us find Marina’s home-stay.
 The next day we enjoyed a ‘natural’ thermal pool in the Borjomi Mineral Park (0.5 GEL on-season) which was ours alone [...]

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The attempt on Kazbek

Posted on 27. May, 2009 by yoyo.

 We left Tbilisi in the 17:00 Marshutka (minibus) from Didube station (same nae metro station) headed for Kazbegi village (8 Lari, 3 hours). the road north is considered the best road in Georgia, called “The Military High-Way” over which the last Russia Georgia war was fought. the road is pretty crooked and a van full [...]

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Sleeping

Posted on 20. May, 2009 by yoyo.

 Georgia:
 Tbilis: Irine Japaradize, Home-stay-dorms, 20 Lari person/night, hot shower, free internet (when boy not playing) and good help for Georgia. finding: Marjanshvili metro station-> Marjanshvili st. upwards-> Ninoshvili St. left (after small church-> first building entrance, 2 broken stone lions, 2nd floor. Skype: ira_apardize, email: irina5062@gmail.com, +995 99 111 669.
Kazbegi: Nazi Chkareuli, home-stay-dorms, 30 Laris per person, including [...]

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