Vaella Laella

Cherrytime has come… (but dont even think we cut the branches… this wasgift from local men…uu)

OssiBussi Shanti Lines is moving slow but these days even slower because our Azerbaijan visa hunting seems to be taking ages thanks to azeri byrocracy… Firstly we needed an invitation from some local organisation or company, but when we finally would have had it from SOS Children Village in Baku (after one week organizing) Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan told it is not acceptable. So, we had to ask the Letter Of Invitation (LOI) from travel agency and again email back and forth zillions of times (another week passed). Also, just these days the policy had changed and Azerbaijan is also confirmation of a hotel room booking for one night. Uh, what to do, we booked some five star hotel of 1 000 dollars just to have this proof, to be canceled when the visas are finally in the hands… Meanwhile waiting for the answers and Foreign Ministery 10 days processing of our LOIs we left Tbilisi for some adventure in south-east Georgia, Kakheti region.

 

Roof top travellers Veera, Sanna and Aylin :)

Nice panorama :)

Middle of amazing moony landscape there is one of oldest Georgian monastery area, Davit Gareja (some more photos will come later!). Anybody travelling to this direction should visit!!! Really heart-breakingly beautiful.. Monks living in the cave-houses, little church inside the stone too. Lot of space and miracles of the nature.. In the spot which most tourist (99% Georgians) visit in few hours, we stayed 4 days hiking around, becoming friends with border police and shepherd and the seismologist living there… Yes, on those hills we could already see Azerbaijan… There it is, the land where it is so hard to get in, but Mother Earth is exactly the same beauty, mountains and little rivers… We just happen to need some stupid documents to enter. This world is a bit out of mind with this border policy.

After Davit Gareja there was an option to go and visit Armenia in one week cause there it is possible to get visa on border (hallelujah). But we decided to stay in Georgia, explore Kakheti more. So, we entered Telavi area. Wellcoming wasnt so nice, because in one tiny village drunken young man hit our door window broken, just to release some aggression I guess.

With some hazzle of non-english speaking locals and the most spa-out-police ever, the villagers paid us 20 lari (ten euros) to get new window done. For four days we stayed without door window just plastic cover (elmukelmu) on door…

To balance this loss we found the most lovely camp by the clean river and spent some relaxed days in the nature. In Telavi we found amazingly easily glass cutter who did by handmade the new window.

Food Circle Now!!! :)

…And now we are back in Tbilisi, full of Hope… ready to fill the visa forms for Azerbaijan Embassy the third time now… yee… Thumbs up this Friday!

P.S I saw a dream where I got to know we are still in December here in Georgia… haaa…

Freia xxx