Mount Ushba, Caucasus - a photo on Flickriver

            Whoever would have said a year ago that I would go to the Caucasus, or visit Georgia, I probably had declared him or her completely insane.

The main reason, I had never thought of it. And although I was not completely unaware that the Caucasus is beautiful, it still surprised to see how intensely beautiful this mountain range is.
This picture was taken in the Svaneti region, we started in the village Mazeri (ca 1400 meter) and we hiked to the top of the Guli-pass at 2962 meter. A very tough hike that in the end gets rather steep. But the rewards were several! Here you look at Mount Ushba (4700 meter), a very strange shaped mountain.
Enjoy.

A month ago I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran)  before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive  journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history. 

Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way.  We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!

We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border. 

And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.

Taken in: Georgia / Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti / Chokhuldi (show map)

Taken on: June 26, 2019

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Camera: Sony SLT-A65V, f/9.0, 1/80 sec, 17mm (=25mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	17mm (35mm equivalent: 25mm)
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Daylight
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