Day 25

Today we decide to go to the mountains, to the Militar Highway. That’s an ancient passage from Tbilisi over the Caucasus to Russia, and an important route for trucks.

Our first stop is Ananuri, an old fortress in front of a lake. It is beautiful indeed.

Next the landscape starts to change. We start following a little river. Grass fields start surrounding us with cows and horses, with its fresh air. It is a great place to visit! Suddenly the road just ends, and our ride becomes an off road ride. It’s fine because we have the chance to prove the new tires before the “Stans”, but also sucks because we are between trucks and they throuw to us so much dust that we can’t see.

Then we start our way up to the mountains, and it gets a little bit difficult. The trucks are so slow… and the drivers so aggressive that we don’t feel comfortable. It takes some time to reach Gudauri and its sky station. The views are breathtaking, we are surrounded by high mountains and alpine landscape. Again, it’s really hot and late, we haven’t eaten a thing since the morning and we have troubles finding the hotel. We walk around under the sun just asking everybody until someone knows it. Those are the views from our window, not bad!

We go to the nearest restaurant, and I got some chicken on a sword! So cool! Bt the way, I’m addicted to this green beverage, it’s delicious!

We take the rest of the day just to rest. We are really tired, and a big storm begins, so we can’t go walking around.