GEORGIA - Kakheti Wineries & Sighnaghi

DSCF4903Kakheti is Georgia's fertile wine region with beautiful monasteries and wineries. Georgia is the birth place of wine making and archaeologist found the oldest traces of wine production in Georgia dating back to more than 5000 BC.


Merry Christmas 2014

DSC09464Merry Christmas 2014! Tis the season to be jolly. Christmas is the spirit of giving and we are joyful because we see the happiness in people.


GEORGIA - Nekresi, Gremi & Telavi

DSC05111---Copy_thumbFirst unified as a kingdom in the 9th Century, Georgia is considered the ‘must visit’ country in the Caucasus region and currently receives the most tourist compared to Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Majority of Georgia’s population practices Orthodox Christianity and since Georgian Orthodox Church is one of the world’s most ancient Christian Churches, there are many old churches to be seen in Georgia as Christianity was adopted as the state religion of eastern Georgia since the 4th Century.
  

AZERBAIJAN - Travel Recommendation

DSCF3151Azerbaijan is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Eurasia is located at the crossroads of Western Europe and Eastern Asia, thus the name Eurasia. Azerbaijan is the first Caucasus countries that I visited which I stayed for 4D3N. I spent 2 days exploring Baku, its capital, before moving on to Shaki and crossed the border over to Georgia.

AZERBAIJAN - Shamakhi

DSCF4015Shamakhi is an ancient Azerbaijan city and is the historical center of the region of Shirvan. The city is populated since 5th century BC and between the 9th – 16th century, it was the capital of Shirvan Empire. The capital of the province of the Russian Empire was also in Shamakhi until the devastating earthquake in 1859 where it was moved to Baku.