A dump truck came past from the town as we were doing computer work. I
got out and chatted to him. He was surprised we had come through the
way we had. And no, he did not pass in the night.
We
drove along the edge of lake Tabatskuri and sadly it appears that it
is a good place to throw rubbish from a nice steep high embankment.
The
road slowly improved the further south we got. There were many
different parties of people out enjoying the sun and BBQing their
lunch.
Just outside of Tabatskuri we sat for a few minutes and cheered on the game of volley ball. I think they appreciated the attention!
A big paddock to rotary hoe by hand!!
Where
we joined the main yellow road was a police station, I went in and
upon waking the duty officer up and getting him off the couch he told
me in reasonable English that the yellow road was very rough with snow the
other longer road much better. At this point we took his advice.
Georgians are very good at their re-purposing!!!
Almost
touching our track in Akhalkalaki we turned and headed north west
again.
We
passed a lot of unloved castles seemed to be one every 10kms,
At
Khertvisi the castle had been preserved so stopped to look at the
fortress and have some lunch. Quite good, but took a while.
Just
before Borjami we turned up a wonderful treed driveway up to the
green monastery. Very interesting. This little chapel had a row of
skulls, I assume important people??
We
drove through and above Borjami and camped in an open wooded area.
Very lovely except for the rubbish but wasn’t too bad.
175km
175km