Bradt Georgia (Bradt Travel Guides) - Softcover

Burford, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841621900 ISBN 13: 9781841621906

Publisher: Bradt Pubns, 2007

Synopsis

This guide provides the most up to date and detailed source of hard facts for independent travelers and hikers on getting to and around this little explored but very welcoming ex-Soviet state. Thorough coverage is provided on the increasingly cosmopolitan capital, Tbilisi, together with plenty of suggestions for itineraries further afield, highlighting Georgia's picturesque and unspoiled countryside. Features include: *The Black Sea coast, Caucasus mountains, and Svaneti *A traveler's guide to Georgian hospitality, customs, and transport *The flora and fauna of the region

About this title

About the Author:

Tim Burford spent five years in publishing before starting to write hiking and ecotourism guides for Bradt, specializing in Latin America and eastern Europe. He is also the author of Chile and Argentina: The Bradt Trekking Guide and Chile.

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  From almost anywhere in the central valleys you'll be able to see the High Caucasus as a long white wall to the north; in many places you'll also be able to see the Lesser Caucasus, to the southwest along the Turkish border. This is a gentler, more rounded range, rising to 3,300m; the Trialeti Ridge, covered in rich pastures and forests, stretches to the outskirts of the capital, Tbilisi. The two ranges of the Caucasus are linked by the very young Suran range, which forms the watershed between the Black and Caspian Seas and separates eastern and western Georgia, Kartli and Kolkhida.

   The country is dominated by one main river, the Mtkvari (Kura in Russian; 1,364km in total), which rises in Turkey, enters Georgia near Vardzia, then flows east through Kartli and Tbilisi and then through Azerbaijan to the Caspian. The main river of western Georgia is the Rioni (327km) which flows from the foothills of Racha through Kutaisi to the Black Sea; others are the Inguri (213km) which flows from Svaneti to the Black Sea, the Iori (320km) and Alazani (351km, the longest within Georgia), which flow through Kakheti and into the Mtkvari, and the head waters of the Terek (623km in all) which flows north into Russia and eventually into the Caspian.

   The main centres of industry and population lie along an east-west axis, from Rustavi through Tbilisi, Gori, Zestaponi, Kutaisi, Samtredia and Senaki to Poti; the only other major cities are two Black Sea ports, Batumi, near the Turkish border, and Sukhumi, in the secessionist republic of Abkhazia.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Bradt Pubns
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1841621900
• ISBN 13: 9781841621906
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 266