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The European route E97 is a E 97 is a road from Ukraine to Turkey, passing Russia and Georgia. It passes through the disputed territory of Abkhazia, which makes it extremely difficult to travel for hitchhikers without CIS passports, as transit through Abkhazia is de-facto impossible.


Ukraine=

Kherson

Russia

Abkhazia

As part of the M-27 (Dzhubga-Sochi-Tbilisi), the E97 is the main road of Abkhazia. The road goes along the shore of the Black Sea at a length of 215 km. It is mainly a winding and pretty narrow road with no markings, partly missing asphalt. Distance from the Russian border to Sukhumi is 120 km, from Sukhumi to the Georgian border 95 km. As the roads are filled mainly with local drivers and taxis, hitchhiking takes approximately 2-3 hours for each part.

At border checkpoint Psou, be aware of many minibusses and taxis, making hitchhiking quite difficult. Within the country, is it probably fastest to hitchhike from one GAI/DPS (police) post to the other. These can be found each 10 to 20 km. According to the AVP, traffic police is very hospitable towards hitchhikers. See mentostop for more info.Outside those DPS-posts, hitchhiking is much worse because of the extremely small amount of comfortable positions, the abundance of human settlements, the predominance of local traffic and Abkhazians who love to drive fast.

DPS-post positions between Psou and Sukhumi are as follows: 1) Холодная Речка (cold river) 2) Бзыбь (Bzyb', between exits of Ritsu and Pitsunda) 3) At km 2of the road Bzyb'-Pitsunda 4) At turn to Myusseru (Misri), 5) Near Gudauta (at Gagra), 6) Seaside (near N. Athos), 7) Верхняя Эшера (Upper Escher) 8) At entry to Sukhumi

Georgia

Poti

Turkey=

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