Tbilisi 'is an up and coming destination'
Monday, May 11, 2009
Georgia could soon be a tourist destination "on par with St Petersburg or Moscow", a travel writer has said.
Tbilisi, the country's capital city, is becoming more tourist-friendly and is "spectacularly frenetic and stylishly gritty" wrote Lionel Beehner in the New York Times.
Georgians are a proud nation and have kept their authentic culture and cuisine, as well as their unique language untouched, he continued.
"What visitors may appreciate most about Tbilisi is precisely its unpredictability -Switzerland or Sweden this country is not," he explained.
He recommended a stroll up a hill to the 17th century fortress of Narikala, which offers views down over the city. The underground marble-tiled banyas - saunas - at the base of the hill were favourite haunts of Alexander Dumas and Pushkin, he added.
After imaginative travellers in Georgia have explored the capital, Lonely Planet suggests taking a trip to the Black Sea holiday coast resort of Batumi, going for a hike in the mountain enclave of Svaneti and paying a visit to the hilltop church of Tsminda Sameba in the mountain town of Kazbegi.
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