Subject: Post: <p>Today was much more successful exploring day. The car rental guys brought our new Nissan Xterra in the morning, with proper winter tires. They still managed to fail with the chains though, they were thinking of using the same snow chains and naturally they did not fit this car either.. Well, that was not a big problem as the car was perfectly usable on the mountain roads with the winter tires. </p><p>We started by climbing up the same route which we failed yesterday, to the ski result of Tetnuldi which is still under construction. There was a road to the top of the mountain used by the workers and occasional skiers, so.. Naturally we had to drive all the way to the top, to a bit over three kilometers altitude.</p><p>After the scary descent from the Tetnuldi peak we headed to Ushguli road. The road was definitely the worst one I have droven, with 30 centimeters of snow on the road and high cliffs on both sides of the narrow road. An occasional lake or iced area on the road didn't make it much easier. After some two hours we had made our way up to Ushguli, the highest inhabited village in Europe. The village is also on the UNESCO world heritage list.</p><p>We did not have that much time before sunset, so we just took a short walk around the village and started our scary but uneventful drive back to Mestia, where we arrived just on time as the sun set down. Some excellent Georgian wine, food and we are ready to bed now at 21 local time. Tomorrow to Borjomi..</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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