| | We begin with funky Georgian architecture | |
| | | Just outside Tbilisi's Freedom Square | |
| | | Hotel Iveria: home for refugees from Abkhazia | |
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| | Government is now trying to convince them to leave | |
| | | Hideous Soviet reviewing stand | |
| | | Overlooing Tbilisi's McDonald's at right | |
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| | The breakfast of champions | |
| | | | Kevin indulged my constant photography | |
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| | | They were surprisingly well-tended | |
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| | | Statue of kartlis deda: Mother Georgia | |
| | | Kevin got a touch of vertigo | |
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| | | He was O.K. when he wasn't facing it ... | |
| | | ... or if a brick wall was propping him up | |
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| | From the Narikala fortress | |
| | | Bells, and Japanese tourists | |
| | | A new church was recently built at the fortress | |
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| | Wine jars near the church | |
| | | The long road back down from the fortress | |
| | | One last photo from the hill; a mosque is visible | |
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| | TV tower on Mtatsminda, the holy mountain | |
| | | The view of Rustaveli Avenue from our balcony | |
| | | Parliament is visible in the distance | |
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| | Thomas, another PCV, shows us Mtskheta | |
| | | | A tiny church (same Japanese tourists as before) | |
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| | Sveti-tskhoveli, Georgia's holiest church | |
| | | Practically the only large church in the country | |
| | | Ornate carving covers its facade | |
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| | Squatting near a big bell | |
| | | Pagan bulls' heads over the doors | |
| | | The Soviet main square of Mtskheta | |
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| | Then up to the Jvari church | |
| | | | Two rivers meet just below the church | |
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| | | Subway heading home. What a helpful sign | |
| | | Walking down Rustaveli [go to link at top for page 2] | |
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