Subject: Post: <p>Today was again mostly spent on the road. We visited Borjomi mineral water park in Borjomi first. The park consist of some tourist attractions built around the first bottling factory and natural spring of Borjomi mineral water. The water is my personal favorite and a well known brand all around the world, salty and good. Nowadays the water is bottled in modern plants around the area, but the original spring still exists near the old factory. We filled a couple of bottles with the water to be used during the next days.</p><p>We had booked an apartment in Mtskheta, the old Georgian capital close to the current capital Tbilisi and conveniently located on our route for the next days. On the way to Mtskheta from Borjomi is Gori, city which is mostly famous as the birthplace of Joseph Stalin. There's a big museum built in the fifties next to the original house, which is also preserved under a memorial house. Unfortunately we were a bit short on time before sunset, so we just took a quick walk outside the museum, checked out the only remaining statues of Stalin, his armored train carriage and so on.</p><p>Nearby Gori there was an another interesting historical site which we briefly visited, the cave city of Uplistsiche. It is supposed to be one of the oldest settlements in the Caucasus area, the oldest caves being built some 3000 years BC.</p><p>By the way, I'm not completely sure if I want to see mandarins after this trip. As they grow locally in Georgia and are really good and fresh in here, we have been munching them on the road. Yesterday we bought a topped up 10l bucket of them, and the last one was eaten today..</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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