KL Glasgow Overland: Georgia (20 June

Driving to Sarp, at Turkey Georgia Border

SARP TUNNEL, TURKEY

TURKEY GEORGIA BORDER CROSSING POINT, SARP,BEEN RAINING ALL MORNING

BATUMI TOWN

DRIVED PAST BATUMI…STILL RAINING

TWIN TUNNEL GEORGIA

SELLING HANDICRAFTS AT BUKNARI ROAD

BRONZE STATUE

WATER PIPES ….ODD? EH

CAUTION: WATER PIPES CROSSING THE ROAD

RIVER NEAR KOBULETI

GEESE BATHING IN PUDDLE

COWS WALKING TO PASTURE

THREE LITTLE PIGS

HORSES GRAZING ON LUSH GRASS

21 JUNE 2013 - KUATASI CITY

STAUTES AROUND KUTAISI

HAT MAN ON RONIN RIVER BRIDGE, KUTAISI

RONIN RIVER, KUTAISI

STATUE OF SINGING MAIDENS, KUTAISI

GEORGIA AND EU FLAGS, KUTAISI

KUTAISI SCULPTURE

THE FOUNTAIN HAS 30 STATUTES OF THE COLCHIS FOUND FROM THE KOLKHIDA DIGS ASLO CALLED AGHMASHENEBELIS SQURE, KUTAISI

BAGRATI MONASTRY KUTAISI

OLD CHURCH IN OLD KUTAISI

OLD KUTAISI

VINTAGE JEEP

ENTERING KUTAISI

RURAL ROAD

ABANDON CAR

RURAL GEORGIA

RAILWAY BRIDGE

MOTHER BREAD

GORI…. FROM HIGHWAY

A GRANDIOSE REST AREA OUTSIDE 2 HOURS GORI

REST AREA MORDERN ACHITECTURE

CHEERIES

CHERRY TREE

SWEET SECCULANT RASBERRIES AND CHERRIES

SWEET PASTRY

CAPEL OF VIRGIN MARY GORI

CHAPEL BELL

FLAG OF GEORGIA AT CEMETARY

CEMETARY NEAR CAPEL

DROVE THROUGH THIS CEMETERY TO GO TO GORI CITY

GORI 22 JUNE 2013

STALIN’S BIRTH CITY

STALIN PARK

STALIN OFFICIAL TRAIN

JOSEF STALIN

STALIN MUESUM GORI

GORI STATE BUILDING

WEIRD CULPTURE

GRAND STRUCTURE GORI

FORT IN GORI

DIRECTION SIGN TO TBLISI

GEOGIA GIANTS KNIGHTS

GIANT KNOGHT UNDER MEDIVAL FORTRESS

CAHPEL NEAR GIANT KNIGHTS

STATE BUILDING GORI

MTKVARI RIVER BRIDGE

RUGGED LANDSCPAE

SEE THE FACE ?

WAITING FOR ORDERED PACK LUNCH

DISPLAY OF GEORGIAN PRIDES IN RESTUARANT

OUR PACKED LUNCH

ROCK CAVE DWELLING SITE…..SEEN FROM ACROSS THE RIVER MTKVARI

UPLISTISKHE.ROCK DWELLINGS. OUTSIDE GORI

INSIDE A ROCK DWELLING

SCENIC LANDSCAPE ON THE WAY TO ROCK DWELLING SITE

ROCK LIZARD

NATURE’S ROCK CARVINGS

NATURE’S GIFT TO MANKIND

NATURE AT WORK

SCENIC MOUNTAIN VIEWS

SCULPUTRE

JVARI MONASTRY NEAR MTSKMETA

According to traditional accounts, the early 4th century Saint Nino, convertied King Mirian III of Iberia to Christianity, erected a large wooden cross on the site of a pagan temple. The cross was reportedly able to work miracles and therefore drew pilgrims from all over the Caucasus. A small church was erected over the remnants of the wooden cross in 545 named the "Small Church of Jvari".

MTSKHETA TOURIST CENTRE AND FOOD COURT

NOTE THE PROTON PERSONA WITH IRANIAN PLATE

GEORGIAN SOUVINERS

GEORGIAN SWEETS WITH PISTACHOS FILLING

SVETITSKHOVELI--CATHEDRAL OF THE 12 APOSTLE, 2ND LARGEST CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN GEORGIA, A UNESCO HERITAGE SITE.

It is also known to be the burial site of Christ's mantle, has long been the principal Georgian church and remains one of the most venerated places of worship to this day. It presently functions as the seat of the archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, who is at the same time Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia.