Gori

The primar plan for our 3rd day in Georgia was Mscheta and Gori. That's why in the morning we took a Marshrutka nr 128 to Didube station. But before we found our next Marshrutka to Gori we got ourselves some local surprise pasties (as we didn't know what was inside) from the bakery nearby.

In Gori we first went to the tourist information, another one which was really well organized and from which we took some maps and hints about what to see.

Then we visited Museum od Josef Stalin which was unexpectedly expensive (15 Gel!). Afterwards we climbed up to the Gori Fortress from which we could admire an amazing view on the mountains.

Another part of our Wednesday trip was Uplistiche, 20 km from Gori where amazing 6th century monastery is. We took crowded Marshrutka to get there. Uplistiche was a lovely little village where we could feel the atmosphere of a real Georgian village. Also the main point of our arrival did satisfy us completely Great complex let us to jump on the rocks and taste a little bit of mountain hiking. Although it was a version for lazy hikers ;-)

Then we got stuck for some time in the village, trying to catch some transport to Gori. Between many unsuccessful attempts of hitch-hiking we had an opportunity of taking a part in marches of herds of cows through the village after all day spent on the fields.

When we got to our hosts place in the evening we met a Polish traveler - Malwina. We spent a ovely evening slurping Georgian wine which we got from Ali as a gift :-)

Stalin's tain

Gori fortress

local guys

typical Gerogian village

locals are very friendly

but sometimes don't care about visitors and spread over

and fortunately like nature