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I think your whole trip to Georgia is entire off trip.
If you want to be really of than you should go in the caucasus mountains.
Or you can visit some rural destinations near the border to Armenia.
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We went to South Ossetia and i can confirm you that's quite off the beaten path, in fact we were the only tourists or non-Russian foreigners around in the entire "republic". The republic broke away from georgia around 10 years ago and ever since it acted as if it was already a part of Russia. They use the Russian flag, pay in Rubles, write and read in Russian and even have t-shirts with "Russia" written on them, as if anyone would still doubt so. Most also have the Russian nationality and Russian "peacekeepers" controll the area (that is, if they're not too busy extracting money from travellers and in the meanwhile drinking vodka)
Ever since the war the infrastructure decayed but still it seems like the Soviet-Union never really stopped to exist. In the capital Sxinkvali you'll still see bulletholes everywhere. The big hotel "alana" is not very expensive (2$) yet you have to deal with a lack of running water and drunken Russian soldiers as your neighbours. YOU will be the real attraction here it it seems like the entire town came to see you, talk to you, touch you and invite you for vodka. Even more extreme was Kvaisa in the mountains, a city entirely made up of very decayed buildings in an alpine surrounding and an old mine. the surroundings of the village Ruk are even more spectacular and its easy to reach on the main road to Vladikavkaz, but the locals don't seem too welcoming, very much on the contrary to Kvaisa where, without exaggeration, the entire town gathered to meet us.
South of Sxinkvali there's a giant market with products smuggled from Russia where a lot of georgians come to shop. Especially Russian-made products such as kaviar are very cheap (1.5$ for 120 gram). You can reach the market and Sxinkvali from Gori Leave a Comment
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