After 2 months…A new destination actually country appeared for me to visit…This was Georgia…
Everything happened when I saw a message from one of my friends…Esteban…He lives in Rize (the city which is located at the eastern Blacksea Region of Turkey) and he was planning to go to Batumi/Georgia…and then I thought that why don’t I go to there also…I also can visit him and can see eastern Blacksea Region cities like Rize-Trabzon and then can pass to Georgia…and then I booked my flight ticket and went to Trabzon firstly…It was my first domestic flight in my life cause before that I always used flights for abroad…
When I passed to Rize…I met with Esteban in the city center of Rize and passed to his spectacular village (Salarha)…Imagine a village or town where is surrounded by only tea fields like Sri Lanka…I stayed in a place like that…
And the day which we think to discover Georgia came…We went to Batumi from Rize by a midibus which was small but the driver was really funny…He showed his passport and as you can imagine there were so many stamps cause he was passing the borderline every single day…and the conversation with him was nice and useful…
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| The way of Rize-Batumi |
And after 2 hours journey we reached to the borderline of Turkey-Georgia…Georgia has a different way when they accept foreigners into their country. They use “webcam” for taking photos of foreigners when they would like to enter…I haven’t seen or heard such a different enforcement like that…Georgia was waiting me with its own different atmosphere…
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| The first photo which I took in Georgia |
When we arrived to Batumi unfortunately the weather wasn’t good enough for discovering the city but we didn’t concentrate on this and we started to walk around…Firstly we went to consulates district of Batumi and liked the architectural of buildings…
Batumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and it is the capital city of Adjara (the autonomous republic in southwest Georgia)...
After consulates district we came to the area of “Medea statue”…and as you can imagine we started to take photos…
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| Medea statue in the center of Batumi |
In Batumi the train station is a little bit far away (around 12 km) to the city center…And we decided to buy our train ticket from Batumi to Tbilisi from somewhere in the city center but it was really hard to find this office…We asked this place to approximately 15 people but couldn’t find and then we came to in front of the Head Consulate of Turkey and we asked this place to one security police from there and he came even to the office which we were looking for…Thanks to him from here also (madloba)
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| The head consulate of Turkey in Batumi |
Then we went to the seaside of the city…It is probably one of the longest seasides actually seashores I have ever seen in my life…The weather was bad but even with this weather the seashore was great…We probably walked a half of it as I guessed…then we came to the university of Batumi known as “Shota Rustaveli Batumi State University”…
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| The seashore of Batumi |
Just next to the university there is a ferris wheel which is really bigger than I imagined. What a nice coincidence…There is a ferris wheel just next to the “Shota Rustaveli Batumi State University”…
Then we decided to go Sheraton Hotel to see their casino part…It was nice to see this atmosphere also…
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| Sheraton |
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| Sheraton Hotel |
Finally actually unfortunately the time to leave from Batumi came and we went to the train station of Batumi by taxi…I just would like to say something about taxi drivers in Georgia…Don’t think that they are so honest and easy-going people when you agree on the price of taxi…If you ask something about anything…they just change the money fee and they demand much more money than you agreed on…Be careful about if you would like to use taxi…
And the time came; our train came…the train looked like a really old Soviet train and I had one of the interesting also a little bit scary train journeys I have ever done in my life…
If you would like to know how it was;
WAIT FOR TBILISI PART…
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