Tag: Svaneti

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 ...

Well, the hardest climb (though not the highest) in the Caucasus certainly has a personality, as much as mountains can. ...

When we bought this property we live on in Svaneti in 2010, it had two buildings on its 3000-odd square ...

Nestled in the northwestern mountainous region of Svaneti is a small but increasingly popular town named Mestia. Despite this growing ...

More than 20 villages have been cut off from the outside world in western Georgian’s Lentekhi municipality due to heavy ...

But especially here, or so a potter friend told me on her first visit with her husband, ascending to us ...