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maykal Says: What's left of old Akhaltsikhe is clustered between the castle and the bus station, a few roads with old stone houses lining the streets. The real attraction is just to walk through the narrow lanes and see life going on around you...a shepherd leading his cattle and sheep...
Museum of Samtskhe-Javakheti Part 2
maykal Says: She also told me about the history of the museum. After independence, the government had other things to worry about rather than financing museums, so the museum staff went without their salaries for many years. There was no heating, no electricity, no funding to preserve...
maykal Says: The unexpected highlight of a trip to Akhaltsikhe is the excellent museum inside the castle that looms over the old town. I'm not usually a museum person, and at first glance, it looked just like a hundred other museums I have visited...the exhibits of pots and stone-age...
Tuna_ank Says: It was clean, quite hotel. And breakfast was good.
maykal Says: The old woman munching on a sandwich at reception nearly fell off her chair when I walked in and asked for a room. "A room?! Yes, we have one!" and she almost skipped down the long musty corridor to show me. The Meskheta used to be a former Intourist hotel, and hasn't fared...
Natakhtari: Nice foods, nice people
Tuna_ank Says: I liked people there... Obergine with ...
maykal Says: Akhaltsikhe's bus station is about as lively as the town gets...there are usually at least three buses waiting there at any one given moment! The four hour trip from Tbilisi costs 7 Lari (June 2005 US$1 = 1.82 Lari), and passes through Gori and Borjomi. Lying close to the...
Tuna_ank Says: If you can go to this far place you will be very happy.
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It was clean, quite hotel. And breakfast was good.
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Deep in the south of Georgia, close to the border with turkey, lies the sleepy town of Akhaltsikhe. The name means Newcastle (akhal = new, tsikhe = castle), but it couldn't be more different from its...
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