Trek Svaneti Day 1: Mestia - Adishi

Here we go!
An easy 1600m D+ 29km to start....
A wonderful walk through valleys and up snowy ridges with welcoming encounters:
- a kind mother and daughter who sell us fresh raspberry juice and give Colette her first Georgian apples, the day can not get better!
- actually it does... a lonely ski cabin with a music blasting hifi system on the roof attracts our attention. After many refusals we finally accept the invitation to join the birthday party. We get back on the trail a few shots of chachas later, the trail is for some reason much easier and the air warmer 🥴
- Antoine spots frantically a Gypaete, Colette quickly becomes his ornithology apprentice
- In Adishi a groupe of Belorussians invite us for a jovial glass of wine and we learn of the complicated political situation they are living; exiled in Georgia to avoid emprisonnement.
- a rare white bear (who barks) nicknamed Luna, decides to guard our tent.
We survive our first camp out at -4*C 🥶Read more