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'''Mestia''' is a city in the [[Svaneti]] region of [[Georgia]]. | '''Mestia''' is a city in the [[Svaneti]] region of [[Georgia]]. | ||
| − | Mestia is not a large town and can be walked out of easily. It has the major | + | Mestia is not a large town and can be walked out of easily. It has the major Svaneti road running through it. It also has a road that splits off to the north toward the border with [[Russia]] and a trekking trail to the Lekhziri glacier. |
== Hitching out == | == Hitching out == | ||
Revision as of 03:21, 9 October 2010
Mestia is a city in the Svaneti region of Georgia.
Mestia is not a large town and can be walked out of easily. It has the major Svaneti road running through it. It also has a road that splits off to the north toward the border with Russia and a trekking trail to the Lekhziri glacier.
Hitching out
Mestia can easily be walked out of to get onto the Svaneti road. If you watch the road markers you can make sure you are heading the right direction. The markers are skinny white poles with two square blue plaques declaring the kilometer distances to the ends of the road. If the number facing you is around 140 then you are heading to Ushguli and Lentekhi. If it is around 65 then you are heading to Zugdidi.
More traffic seems to leave Mestia for Zugdidi in the mornings than the evenings. People making day trips into Zugdidi leave early to traverse the mountain road and make it back up before dark.
No information for hitching to Ushguli is available at the time of writing.
