From
Borjomi there is a narrow gauge railway to
Bakuriani named
Kukushka. It needs more than 2 hours for the 38 km so it is the perfect slow start of a hiking tour. OK, it starts at 7:15 in the morning and 3 km from the city center. If you have the chance to take it, do this! The landscape is nice and you will meet a lot of locals. It only cost 2 Lari and I fear its service will be stopped sooner or later because the Marshrutka cost 3-4 Lari and only needs 30 minutes.
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| Sunrise |
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| All stations look like this one. |
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One of the 2 comfortable coaches. As the train is so
slow it is no problem to stay outside its cabin and taking pictures. |
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| The locomotive was once build by Škoda in the 1960's. |
The idea was to hike to
this pass because this would only be 6 km and there was not much snow. The top station of the ski resort is close and one can take it back down for only 4 Lari. But I already told about the hungry wild dogs. After I spent all my cake to 2 of them I gave up. A car stopped and drove me without asking to the ski resort. There I found out that the price for the ski equipment was only 20 Lari (which I could reduce to 15, see the image why). One day with the ropeways cost 30 Lari. So I decided to go skiing one day. The weather was a dream - pure sun and an amazing wide view over the whole Caucasus.
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As one can see the resort as basically only one descent in 4 variations.
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I have the feeling that I am totally 2012 because I am rather the only tourist here without a
selfie stick. I therefore made two reinventions, the "melfie" (mirror selfie):
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| A melfie. |
and the "strelfie" (selfie shot by a stranger):
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| A strelfie. |
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| Just art. |
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| Another view to the Greater Caucasus with th resort in front. |
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| This is the pass I wanted to walk to. |
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| The ski were used ones from a tyrolean ski school. But the quality was no problem on the easy pistes. |
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| An overview of the resort. |
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