Visiting Uplistsikhe Cave Town, Georgia Updated December 2024, Visiting Uplistsikhe Cave Town, Georgia was originally published in March 2022 Looking like an out-of-this-world moonscape, Uplistsikhe is an abandoned cave town whose name translates out to the Lord’s Fortress. Uplistsikhe is Georgia’s oldest cave towns among many, located in the Shida Kartli region very near to the […]
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Tbilisi’s Bunkers: A Secret Soviet Underworld Updated November 2024, Tbilisi’s Bunkers: A Secret Soviet Underworld was originally published in November 2023 A beguiling network of Soviet-era bunkers, bomb shelters, chambers, and tunnels weave their way beneath Georgia’s capital city of Tbilisi. These bunkers of Tbilisi have managed to stay mostly a secret until more recently,
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How to get to Dilijan from Yerevan (and Vanadzor) Updated November 2024, How to get to Dilijan from Yerevan (and Vanadzor) was originally published in May 2023 Famed as the Armenian Switzerland, Dilijan was one of my favorite stops on my most recent return to Armenia. I usually try to travel cheaply and use public
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North Caucasus Tour:Ancient & Epic Karachay-Cherkessia & Kabardino-Balkaria I’m excited to announce that I will be co-leading a small group experience to the North Caucasus to explore the little-visited regions of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria in June 2021 with the help of Soviet Tours. This North Caucasus tour will take us to explore the mountainous areas
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