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Next day after a hearty breakfast Avto took us to visit Juta valley. The mountains here are often called Georgian Dolomites.  The trail was a bit harder(not for the Chinese lady though doing it in flip-flops 😂😂). We were struggling a bit but mostly because of the  hot weather. Yeas we are at more than 2000m a.s.l but the sun here is mercifulless. I was already tanned but still got a bit of the sun burn! So after 2 days  we were ready for a real badass trail. Mount Kazbegi known as a queen of the valley welcomed us with a clear view on her peak so we could admire her majesty🙂.  It was really hard going  800 m up and than 800m down but we did it!!!For Avto it seemed effortless 🤣🤣. Where we camped in the night we had an amazing view on one of the most picturesque churches - Gergeti Trinity Church.  Sadly instead of a place for reflection it became a mass tourism destination to make selfies and ph...

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 trafficke...

The road to Racha region kind of reminded us of Val d'aveto road back at home apart from the hairpin turns at the beginning.  We stopped by the road to fill the water bottles and meet Temuri, who started to chat with us in English and than turned out speaks several languages including some Polish. He totally caught us of guard offering us red local wine that he just went to get from the winery and than also gave us a bottle of homemade cha cha ( grappa).We weren't prepared for so much hospitality 🙂👍. Thank you Temu for being so kind to us! There are several wineries close to Ambrolauri but it was late and we just wanted to get to our final destination. We still have time to discover Georgian wine. Finally we arrived at Shaori lake situated at 1300 m. It is known for it's trout but looking at all the fisherman camping at the river bank with at least 3 fishing rods per person we weren't that convinced to give it a try.  So instead we went cycling...