15.04.2011

TRIPPIN’ IS A WAY OF LIFE STYLE: TBILISI/GEORGIA

As I told on my last post…now it is time for Tbilisi part;


Our train looked like an old Soviet train arrived to the station…Firstly I was a little bit excited cause I heard so many things about Soviet trains one of them was about their huge capaciousness…but when we got on the train…Oh my God!!! I had never seen such a train like that in my whole life…The style and capaciousness of it wasn’t the same which I imagined…Unfortunately there was also a heavy smell inside of the train…Anyway we found our place actually this was the most interesting view for me probably for my friend too cause all parts were the same…Our place was 3rd class and the price of it was 15 lari (the money currency of Georgia) which is equal to 20 Turkish liras; 10 euros per person and 2nd class was 23 lari but the thing is all these classes were the same…We were lucky actually when we bought our tickets from 3rd class…As you know for travellers “money” are so important…We shouldn’t be extravagant…










The journey took almost 9 hours cause the distance between Batumi -Tbilisi is almost 400 kms...


Even if it seems so long we were lucky cause there were some Georgian young couples just next to us and especially my friend arranged a great connection with them...They were great fans of Turkish musics especially Tarkan…






After a long journey as I mentioned above, we finally arrived to the train station of Tbilisi...It was actually a train station bigger than we imagined cause when we saw Batumi's station we unfortunately thought that Tbilisi's one also is the same but of course Georgia was continuing on to perplex us...

Tbilisi literally “Warm Spring” is the capital and the largest city of Georgia located at Mt’k’vari (Kura) River…as we heard something about this river; Kura’s water is always blurred…When we were at there, it was also blurred…


Mt’k’vari (Kura) River


Tbilisi is one of the few places in the world like Sarajevo (I have seen this when I was in Sarajevo), Paramaribo where a synagogue and a mosque are located next to each other…unfortunately we just saw this interesting coincidence from so far away cause the weather was so bad and we just had a chance to observe there from so far…


We continued on our discovering&walking…Finally after a long walking we arrived to the city center of Tbilisi and came to “Freedom Square”…Freedom Square known as Erivan  (Erivanskaya) Square is located at the eastern end of "Rustaveli Avenue"... 






Rustaveli Avenue is one of the most important things about Tbilisi…It is located in central Tbilisi named after the medieval Georgian (actually known in whole ex-Soviet countries) poet Shota Rustaveli…This avenue starts at Freedom Square and it is 1.5 km in length…The Parliament of Georgia, the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Rustaveli Museum and the Georgian Academy of Sciences are all located on Rustaveli…
























Even if we stayed in Georgia almost 26 hours...I liked there...my 2.shortest journey in an another country...


Bye for now Georgia...maybe we can see each other...

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