Gergeti

About Gergeti impossible to tell, getting here for an hour with a tour group. Photos against Kazbek’s background, lunch at a roadside restaurant and the guide’s wikipedia displays are terribly small in order to feel at least a little the atmosphere of one of the main visiting cards of Georgia. Here you need to spend at least 2-3 full days. Moreover, not in a hotel, but, for example, at the wonderful aunt Nino directly in the village of Gergeti under the mountain, on which is located the beautiful Trinity Church of the XIV century. Why not in a hotel? Because in any hotel you will not be fed as tasty and sincere as Aunt Nino will feed, may God bless her health! In any hotel you will not be honored to become an accomplice and witness to the whole life of a huge yard, always occupied with the affairs of the court. as well as neighbors adjacent to it, which you will know literally by the evening. By evening, you will generally know everything. Even that is why Manana did not stay with her sister in Kutaisi, but went by minibus with this terrible Rezo to his niece in Racha. This is very important information, believe me. But it's not about that ..

If you come to Gergeti to visit the Trinity Church and are going to get there by car - congratulations - you will give as much as a trip from Tbilisi to Yerevan costs for losing a miracle that the mountain will certainly give in vain 20-30 GEL and go to the church on foot. Mountain gives pedestrians amazing beauty and breathtakingly clean air with the smell of fragrant herbs away from the dusty highway. You will see a wonderful watchtower. Eagles, soaring very close above the mountain river among the steep mountain slopes. And shortly before the last turn, Kazbek’s snow cap will rise from the horizon with each step you take and it will seem that you can reach it with your hand ...

The fatigue of walking on foot is greatly compensated by a visit to the old cathedral. Inside there are no brilliant decorations. Everything is simple, strictly and honestly - stone, wood, iron and wax of candles ... and absolutely amazing voices of fathers, reinforced by wonderful acoustics, which carry the soul to the snowy peaks ...

"Gergeti" A4 format, paper, oil, 2019g.
In the vicinity of the Trinity Church, you can spend a whole day tirelessly wandering aimlessly along the numerous paths, admiring the beauties that change their colors and shadows like in a magical kaleidoscope. From here begins the ascent of the handsome Kazbek, but that’s another story ...

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(from the book "I love khachapuri". V.Garnikyan, 2019)

A source:https://garnikyanart.blogspot.com/2019/05/blog-post_22.html