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Mestia

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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]].
[[File:spotmestia.jpg|400px|thumb|left|The petrol station at the end of Mestia towards Zugdidi. Traffic could be better, surroundings almost not]]
 
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.
On the way to [[Ushguli]] there are some other settlements, it's not a totally deserted road. However the traffic is lower than to the west, it is possible to hitch there within half a day. Road is poor and only jeeps or SUVs can cross.
As for sleeping, also for find a lift, Mestia and Svaneti region are harder than the rest of Georgia. The development of tourism made local see foreigners just as a source of income and the absence of local public transport made them work as taxi substitues especially beyond Mestia (Ushguli and all the road leading to Lentekhi), thats why most often the best option for hitchin are tourist groups with their own jeeps or ur humble legs..[[User: Fedecicco| Fede]] as other hitchhikers (Jo, Alfie and Emee) has been asked for money more than once. generating surprise and disappointment after being accostumed to gorgeous georgian hospitality.
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