GEORGIA - KAZBEGI NATIONAL PARK- TRUSO VALLEY

Before starting the journey to KAZBEGI we stopped at Rustavi to pick up our own personal guide and friend Avto 🙂. As it sometimes work out in the world, we have a friend who has a Georgian friend and the friend of the friend has a brother that lives in Georgia. No, actually Avto funny enough normally lives in Poland but in the summer comes back home to work as a  guide. 

The Kekua family has welcomed us with open heart and we felt immediately at home. Thank you Maja for the delicious food and Pablo for the homemade wine and the painting😘. So after the lovely evening, the next morning we were ready to escape the heat of the city. Kazbegi National Park probably is the most visited park because it's easy accessible from Tbilisi ( the capital).

The road is extremely picturesque but also very busy as it finishes at the only open border crossing to Russia.You get a majority of chinese, russian and israelian tourists with a minor dose of Europeans. The road is trafficked with kilometrical tir queue waiting to cross the border. 

We arrived  just in time to visit Truso valley with it's mineral springs rich in iron. 

We did an easy 8km trekking as a kind of preparation for the next days ahead. And for dinner,as we are in the mountains we had Avto try polenta and porcinis🙂!

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