Tag: Svaneti

The season’s fruits come out ripe: grapes, apples, pears, quinces, walnuts. The apples, at least up here, are far too ...

Having adopted a high mountain region and village of Georgia and settled here since 2007, I suppose one could say ...

Water is currently running better in the village, as leaf-fall with its pipe-blockages is slowing. This means that… Autumn is ...

I’m continuing my amateur investigation into what makes Etseri’s most precious resource run, or not. There are the two rivers ...

Saturday Night Fever, mostly because of the recent local elections held across Georgia on Saturday October 4. Here in our ...

The background: autumn is coming in Upper Svaneti, as the bushes and deciduous trees lose their chlorophyll and their leaves ...

Last week I began this fable about how Babua and Bebia, two prominent rock features of Mt. Ushba, came to ...

I recently photographed the famous “Babua and Bebia” (Grandfather and Grandmother) pinnacles which stick up like fangs below the south ...

We at Hanmer Guest House know that there is a lot of competition for tourism in Svaneti. Even in this ...

If I had not discovered the USSR via the writings of Solzhenitsyn, visited the USSR in the summer of 1991 ...