So this isn't really Mestia. These photos were taken during my backpacking trip in Svaneti but only Mestia shows up as a location. This landscape comes with a blazing sun cooled by glacial breeze and friendly locals who make everything from their own yoghurt to their own bread. The last photo was taken as I climbed the steps of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi.

Mestia is known as the "Caucasian secret" of Georgia. When the winter comes with heavy snow, the road up and down the mountain will be blocked. For centuries, the Svans who lived in Mestia came out of the mountains only in the summer and were isolated from the rest of the world. The village under the mountain still retains the medieval towers, dense forests, huge glaciers, which is an unknown hideaway.

There are many villages and towers scattered along the way from Mestia to Ushguli. From the heights, it is really beautiful. So I am also a whimsy. If the weather is good, my physically strong friends can also consider walking from Mestia to Ushguli. The distance between the two is about 46 kilometers. There are villages in the middle to replenish. It is entirely feasible to arrange a two-day trip. The hillside on the side of the Mestia church, these thousands of years of existence, surrounded by snow-capped mountains, is like a non-born peach flower source. It is said that there will be more than 100,000 tourists coming from all over the world every year. Perhaps this number is far less than the number of tourists waiting for the Forbidden City, Jiuzhai, Huangshan, etc., but it is free to the world, and no external charges are charged. Mountain tickets, in a sense, are not only the property of Georgia, but also the property shared by all mankind. There are many accommodation options in Mestia, mainly hotels and family hotels, spring and summer are the peak season, winter is relatively low season, family hotels are generally 20GEL per person per night, the hotel price is 100+GEL, if you book in advance The hotel can tell the driver that the driver will take you to the hotel door. The night view of Mestia is very good, and the sky is also awkward. If you have the energy to climb the slopes on both sides at night, if you feel trouble, climb to the church.

Mestia has a famous small cable car, no glass wall, no armrests, just simple protection, the small cable car is all suspended, only one safety protection, compared to the glass cable car that you see every day, this is closer to nature, Hanging on the cable car at the foot is also relatively dangerous. But it is this kind of fun that puts more of our love and play, learns the locals' look and sits on the cable car, and slowly draws on the top of the mountain. There is a coffee shop on the top of the mountain. It is also the best place to watch the snowy mountains. A girl from Georgia is photographed in the corridor, wearing a wreath on her head, like a flower fairy, I cant help but shoot her. A few. In Georgia, there is a beauty that is local girls. I have met many cool girls on the road. Dyed with various colors of hair, thick eyebrows, twinkling eyes, rubbed dark lipstick, hidden in the body, and see the old man standing up and taking the bus. Sometimes sitting across from me looking at me, sometimes passing by, there is a kind of careless beauty.

There is a famous small cable car in Mestia, there is no glass wall, no armrests, just simple protection, the biggest feature is that there is a temper, and if you are in a bad mood, you will not open it. We went to the top of the mountain with a cable car and there was a coffee shop. We ordered a mint tea and spit it out. It was a strange smell. When I went down the mountain, I wanted to go down the cable car and waited for more than an hour before the cable car started. The tourists lined up with a long queue, and we waited by the side, thinking about going up again. In front of the Russian family of three, the staff told us that the cable car was completely broken, you have to go down the mountain yourself. In my heart, the muddy horses rushed, then I asked a lot, what about the tourists who just took the cable car, the staff said, they would use the rope to pull the cable cars back, and they went down the hill. Five of you are lucky. In this way, we climbed another 3 kilometers of mountain roads. When the mountain went down, the cable car did not move. It has been two hours, and the tourists who are on the cable car are still swaying. When the sun is shining, I can't go anywhere. I finally understand why we are lucky.

The hiking route of Mestria in the Caucasus Mountains is very mature and can be completed in 4 days. We walked for 20 kilometers and 20 hours before standing on this snowy mountain sign. It is also the place where many hikers stay and rest. The snowy mountains of the stalwart are in front of them, and the sound of ice and snow avalanches can be heard from time to time. A large green meadow is dotted with yellow small wildflowers, and wildflowers are dotted with the glacier world. All of this is marveled by the creation of nature. Standing in front of the snow-capped mountains, our smallness is like a smoothie. Hiking is really a test of people. Since I completed my first long-term walk in Nepal in 2015, I vowed never to hike again in this life, but as soon as I came to the foot of the snow-capped mountains, the vows that were vowed at the time were thrown into the air, and it was so good that the scars forgot the pain. The tiredness is also defeated by the will, the scenery is a gift, and the biggest receipt is to defeat oneself.

Mestia winter is a ski paradise and summer is a walking place. At the foot of the Caucasus, beautiful villages are scattered. The entire area is occupied by a stone defensive tower called "Svan towers", consisting of a tower, an adjacent house and other family structures surrounded by defensive walls. Ancient buildings can be seen everywhere, forming a unique historical landscape in the natural scenery. took more than 10 hours to change the three-car to Mestia, and the snow came to the door, accompanied by traditional Georgian music, only to know that the day was Mestia. A festival, people from all over the town gathered in the square, sharing free food in the afternoon, starting a music festival in the evening and performing traditional Georgian dance. Traveling is especially not only to see the scenery of different dimensions, but also to meet different interesting cultural stories.

The towering towers were built of stone and used to be a guard post for harassment and aggression. It is said that the tower has four floors and the lower floors are used to store water, cheese and wine. During the war, the family hid in the third floor of the tower, while the top was used to fight. Most of them were built between the 6th and 9th centuries, and have been surrounded by the majestic Caucasus Mountains for thousands of years. They are known as the land on the Melaleuca Tower, among which the most built in the 9th century Famous, sporadic scattered throughout the village, according to incomplete statistics of more than 200. In 1990, it was named a World Cultural Heritage by the United Nations.