The Abano Pass: Driving the Road to Tusheti
A single track gravel road over a high pass, open for a few months a year, with no barriers and a reputation that precedes it. Here is what it actually involves.
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A single track gravel road over a high pass, open for a few months a year, with no barriers and a reputation that precedes it. Here is what it actually involves.
A minibus that leaves when it is full, has no printed timetable, and reaches almost everywhere. How to find one, how to stop one, and when to pay for a car instead.
A train, a bus, an app taxi and a queue of drivers who will quote you four times the going rate. Which to take at which hour, and the one arrival that catches people.
Driving in Georgia honestly: what the roads are actually like, why the mountain routes need a 4x4 and a season check, the licence and insurance questions, and when a driver beats a hire car.
A fortress on a reservoir, a Soviet mosaic on a cliff edge, a ski resort at the pass and a church on a hill under a five thousand metre peak.
A medieval tower region under the highest peaks in the Caucasus, reached by a long road along a reservoir, and a village that claims to be the highest in Europe.
A hire car opens up the country and the agreement decides whether you can legally use it. Excess, unpaved road clauses and why a four wheel drive is not a luxury.