Wednesday, May 19, 2010

the road to Tusheti








So the trip tu Tusheti can look like.these guys  are not having their best time but their patience will be rewarded at the end of the journey. Although I have also seen people travelling far more comfortabely with jeeps but when they got out of the car in Omalo they only cried not for unforgetable impressions of Tusheti but for anger that they had spent so many hours bumping and curving the endless road  up and down.





This is the fall of Kere. Kere was a driver who was afraid of the narrow passage near this fall and always  driving up and down when he reached the spot he waited for other drivers to take his vehicle safely over the narrow passage. That’s why the fall was named after him.


The views from “botlis Tzkaro” below






This is again Tzeri with its cold beauty.






These are the views from “Bottle spring” “botlis Tzkaro”.this is the main spot for a short rest on the way up to Tusehti. Here you drink  the  cold mountain water and here you prepare yourself  for stepping in Tusheti,on Tzeri you are already in Tusheti.


Here is the place where a church is to be built.so every man is asked to carry stones to this spot.one writes one’s name on the stone and a little but still important symbolic contribution is made into the basement of the new church,which will stand like a light-tower showing  travellers the way through night and day and blessing both Kakheti and Tusheti from its perfectly middle-line and all-visible position.



Tzeri is on the altitude of nearly 3000 metres above sea level. In The top picture  you see Kakheti valley from Tzeri and feel such pride that you are somewhere above clouds on cool and fresh air and Bari-the plain is so down,in the August unbearable heat,when roads are  flaming with visible hot streams of air.From Tzeri every man feels the strange joy of escaping to the sky,of escaping to Tusheti.


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