The resort of Borjomi (Georgia) is in the gorge in the southeast of Georgia. This place is protected from sharp change of temperatures and the atmospheric phenomena. It is surrounded by the mountains covered coniferous (a pine, a fir-tree, a fir) and broad-leaved (an oak, a birch, a beech, a hornbeam) with the woods. Height of mountains reaches 3000 meters above sea level. The nature of Borjomi is a clean mountain air, big amounts of the sun, moderate temperature during the whole year.
Found here in operating time of archeologists stone bathtubs say that mineral water from sources in Borjomi was used still in the ancient time. Earlier the Borzhomsky gorge carried Torsky's name. In these parts is on what to look are more than 200 monuments of history, among which fortresses, churches, monasteries and even the palace which has remained in original state of Romanov (it is constructed at the end of the XVIII century). The Borzhomsky forest park cares of preservation of the unique nature.
The resort of Borjomi has unique geographical an arrangement – in half an hour of a driving there is Bakuriani's ski resort, at three o'clock – the warm Black Sea. Today Borjomi – one of the most known Georgian resorts. The nature, clean air, mineral water – all this allows to do clinics in Borjomi by one of the most effective in Georgia in treatment of various diseases.
Borjomi water contains sodium and hydrocarbonate ions, bromine, iodine, barium, chlorine, lithium and other elements. In total mineral sources – 10, thus the composition of water on each of them practically doesn't differ. Water temperature is from 16 to 33 °.
Indications at treatment by mineral Borjomi water:
1 . Diseases of bodies of digestive system: locks, chronic gastritises, dispepsiya, initial cirrhosis, congestion of gases in intestines, diseases of a liver, an inflammation mucous a stomach and intestines, the pancreatitis, the increased acidity of a stomach.
2 . Respiratory diseases: bronchitis, pneumonia, laryngitis, dry and wet pleurisy. Water inhalations by a spray and steam are shown.
3 . Gynecologic diseases: inflammatory processes, metritis and parametritis.
4 . Diseases of urinary ways and kidneys: stones and salts, cystitis, пиелиты, chronic inflammations of urinary ways.
5 . Metabolic disorder: diabetes, arthritises, gout, obesity and anorexia.
Tbilisi sulfuric baths (თბილისური გოგირდის აბანო) - the usual public baths, which feature that water in them arrives from where from under the earth, this water warm and contains a lot of sulfur. Similar baths exist in Italy around Tivoli and somewhere in England. This very interesting and useful place which I consider as sight No. 1 in the capital. And not only I so consider.sulfur in water
So, in Tbilisi there are sulphurous sources. There is a lot of them. On Nitsubidze's plateau in Soviet period this water directed directly to apartments, and did without boiler rooms. Here and there this system still remained. And the first springs were found in a valley of the small river proceeding now through the Botanical garden. On a legend, tsar Vakhtang Gorgasal noticed how a wounded deer (or the pheasant) drank this water and recovered. And on these warm sources "The warm city", that is Tbilisi was constructed.
Subsequently at the river the set of baths was constructed. Them built both Georgians and Persians and Turks. In the XVII century Evly Chelebi's traveler wrote down so:
In east part of Big fortress from a subsoil of the earth such hot water that it is possible to weld the head and feet of a sheep flows. These are useful hot springs with [constructed over them] domes.
Later Joseph Grishashvili told: "Not to visit them - all the same what to arrive to Paris and not to rise by the Eiffel Tower". For this advertizing slogan the street going by baths is called Grishashvili's name.
Baths became an element of local culture. They represented the big semibasement rooms covered by a stone dome with a window. In the bath the easy twilight, slanting rays of light from above fall, tiles and marble shine. Here it is possible to lie in the pool with sulfur water - cold or hot, here it is possible and to wash or do massage. It is possible to visit a bath alone or group, to wash in the general hall or in the certain room. Recently in baths began to invite girls though it as though isn't necessary.
And so, baths are extended along the bed of the semi-disappeared small river from the Chicken up on the gorge. There is a lot of them.
Bath "VIP"
It is the first bath from the embankment, at once under big hotel. The bath elite and expensive, in it one big hall, stay in which costs 150 lari in hour They say that the patriarch here goes. Generally, a bath for ministers, presidents and patriarchs.
Bath №5
At once near a bath "VIP". To it I recommend to pay attention, it is convenient and interesting. There is 2 luxury, 5 separate numbers and the general hall. The general costs 3 lari, the others - from 15 to 80. In numbers there is a pool with sulphur water. Separately a sauna, separately a table for massage. Massage costs 10 lari. (As in Thailand, by the way) Personally numbers seemed to me are rather small and скучноваты, and here the general hall very stylish. In female part of a bath of the pool isn't present that is regrettable.
King Abano (Imperial)
Speak, the oldest. Slightly farther behind the fifth bath. Massage of cheap, only 5 lari, but numbers expensive - from 50 to 100 lari. Inside mazhorno, tordzhestvenno, but without people and silently. I came there, any life didn't find and left.
Orbelianov bath
It is the most noticeable bath reminding externally Uzbek madrasah. All is revetted with blue tiles. As well as the fifth, is recommended to visit. The general costs 3 lari, massage of 10-15 lari. Booths - 20-50 lari. At an entrance sell slippers on 3.5, shampoo bags on half-lari, basts and other useful pieces.
As it occurs
I will describe algorithm of behavior in a sulfuric bath on the example of "bath No. 5". I will speak about the general because in numbers no algorithm is present. So, we enter into a bath. There at once window and nice girl. She sells tickets, shampoos, soap, slippers and the other such. We give 3 lari, we receive the ticket. We go down. Further the most difficult - to distinguish man's and female office. There it is signed, but on Georgian. The inscription over the man's begins with a letter "კ", over the female - with a letter "ქ". Man's at the left.
We get to a locker room where the gloomy Azerbaijanian uncle sits. We give it the ticket. It will allocate an iron case - there is put all clothes. In total. I recommend to remove from myself all silver, and that hydrogen sulfide oxidizes silver and it blackens. In total in a case. The case is latched on the lock, a key from which at the owner. Competently.
The owner will ask on massage. It costs 10 lari, the bargaining is pertinent. Massage not that it is very good.
We enter into the main bathing hall. There on the center there are dusheobrazny sources of water with cranes. Under these souls it is necessary to bring itself to a pure condition. In a hall there is a peculiar hydrosulphuric smell, but to it minutes for 15 get used.
With edge there is a pool with water. Water temperature happens the most different - I had an impression that it is hotter in the morning and is colder in the evening. Optimum - at two-three o'clock in the afternoon. If it is tolerant, it is possible to get into the pool and there to sit, giving time to hydrogen sulfide to kill on the skin of all parasites. Some are confused by pool not pro-accuracy, but personally it seemed to me is acceptable.
We sit, расслаюбляемся, we get warm, stare at tile ceilings. Hydrogen sulfide gradually filters into an organism and we feel easy drowsiness.
Somewhere there has to be a sauna. Usual, as in Russia. There too it is possible to get warm.
And we move between souls, the pool, sayny and marble plank beds. In a ban tea sometimes is on sale. And for acceptable money.
When time expires, we leave in a sweating room, we put on and will rise upward. Somewhere at the corner there is the Ossetian restaurant with beer.
They say that hourly payment is only in numbers. And in the general - sit though all day. The general bath is open with 07:00 till 21:00, and numbers круглосуточны.
= Pluses and minuses =
Usually it are pleasant to tourists of a bath. It exotically, oriyentalno, is useful, pleasantly. Really, baths as the cultural phenomenon - something very Tbilisi, very local. Besides, it is really useful. Especially it helps at skin diseases. If you have problems with skin, it is worth coming here time three-four. The effect will be. Sulfide waters treat much that, but won't encumber the text with medical words.
On the other hand, Tbilisi baths are at the moment served very carelessly. There and pools clean infrequently, and purity watch not so. It is clear that sulfuric water kills much that, but not nevertheless. So there are opinions that to visit baths sometimes insalubriously. I think, here everything depends on resistance of your organism to small infections.
Other party - ethical. Now in baths often drive prostitutes because for similar entertainments in Tbilisi it is a little other places. Therefore there is an opinion that baths is for rough emotions, instead of for purity targeting.
Vakhtang I Gorgasali Kartliya's tsar, lived in the V century at its board there was an association of Georgia, was the founder of Tbilisi, and also the politician who much has made for prosperity of Georgia.
Nickname Gorgasal (letters. Volchegolovy) it was given it by Persians. As the legend says, the tsar had a helmet on which the head of a wolf was in front represented, and behind - a lion. Having caught sight of a helmet with images of a wolf and a lion, Persians started shouting each other: "Silly women аз горгасар" (beware of the wolf head).
The monument to Vakhtang Gorgasali (sculptor E.Amashukeli), was established in 1970 on the metekhsky rock which to be on the rocky left river bank of the Chicken.
It surprisingly organically entered into a landscape of the center of old Tbilisi. The monument as if is merged with Wednesday. Pedestal-black basalt. The statue is established on a stone platform near the ancient temple Metekhi.
"Mother of Kartli" - a monument in the capital of Georgia, become to one of symbols of Tbilisi.
The monument was constructed at top of the hill of Sololaka in 1958 when the city of Tbilisi I celebrated the 1500-year anniversary. The author of a monument 20 meters high is the Georgian sculptor Elgudzha Amashukeli. Originally, in 1958 the monument was executed from a tree. In 1963 it was replaced with the aluminum.
For a sculpture Mother of Kartli Elgudzha Amashukeli the Soviet Socialist Republic of Sh. Rustaveli was awarded in 1965 with the State award Georgian
The statue symbolizes the Georgian national character: the female figure holds in the left hand a bowl with wine for a greeting of those who came as the friend, and in the right hand a sword for those who came as the enemy.
Georgia goes on the way of innovations: it accepted the concept of change of a place of a dislocation of various government bodies and carries out on "hurrah". For example, the Georgian Constitutional court settles down now in Batumi. By 2012 plans to note "housewarming" and parliament of Georgia. For this purpose in Kutaisi the new building is erected.
Scale, emergence of the new directions and their fast implementation really strike. Rather recently in the small city of Mestia there was a new airport in style of minimalism. And in the settlement Sarpi adjoining on Turkey the new border check-point is open.
Alberto Domingo Kabo, the architect from Spain, is the designer and the creator of this project. Earlier he developed in Tbilisi the project of the new building for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia which was executed in hi-tech style therefore in this country it is known already for the works.
Quite usual and traditional building consisting of seven floors, consists of 217 offices, and also has a conference hall for deputies. It wouldn't be so interesting, if not one "but": the building will be from above as a cover, it is covered with a hemispherical dome from glass which keeps on 30 beams. One of which has length 200 meters.
On a plan of the author, "cover" from glass has to associate with transparency, on the one hand, and force, with another. These associations will be strengthened in addition, by stylization of an entrance to parliament under a steel tree which starts up the roots.
By the way, many went in this country on the way of construction of transparent buildings. For example, walls of police stations are executed from glass. Probably, this "trend" is a peculiar metaphor: transparency of walls, transparency of the power, transparency of policy … Construction of parliamentary "house" in the heat. So-called "zero level" is already finished, and building of the main objects now begins. So if everything develops successfully further, the first meeting of the Georgian deputies will take place in 2012.
Kiramal's well-known turned restaurant is ready to offer you a variety of ethnic and European cuisine. The restaurant building in itself is known sight of a resort of Batumi as it is constructed head over heels and its basis is the roof! It is high-class restaurant with good level of service, a banquet room and a terrace. Interesting feature of interiors are unusual toilets in which the effect of the turned building is recreated.
The national park of Lagodekhi represents the wonderful heavenly spot before fans of the pure and untouched nature. This corner is in the east of Georgia in the historical Kakheti area. If to speak in more detail about park sites, it can be found on the southern slope of the mountain system of East Caucasus. Practically all park is covered with greens if it happens to find a site without dense vegetation, this site will be by all means occupied with any reservoir.
As a whole, characterizing flora of national park of Lagodekhi, it is worth referring to biocenoses quite typical for Georgia. From rare plants in the reserved territory it is possible to meet two peonies: Mlokosevich (Paeonia mlokosiewiczi) and lagodekhsky (P. lagodechiana), Smirnov's (Gymnospermium smirnowi) golosemyannik and Julia's (Primula juliae) primrose. The park fauna also not a board bast, in its structure is observed the mass of the most very interesting animal species. That costed only by one brown bear living in the territory of park of Lagodekhi as a part of very large population.
Also on open spaces of Kakheti in national park of Lagodekhi it is possible to meet a wild wild boar, the East Caucasian round, a chamois, the roe, a red deer, a lynx, a wolf. From birds living in park the greatest interest is represented by a golden eagle, the bearded man, the Caucasian mountain turkey, Sapsan. In the environment of amphibians the Caucasian frog is most numerous.
Uniqueness of park of Lagodekhi consists not only in its nature. The structure and the structure of park in much are other than other Georgian nature protection territories. In this plan it will be most important to designate that the national park of Lagodekhi is not in state, and in private submission. The territory of park is leased to the individual to Nikoloz Mandzhgaladze for a period of 10 years. This transfer took place during work of special auction on July 5, 2010. As this auction saw off state Agentsvo on protection of territories, and the tenant will monthly pay it a rent of 1 647 lari (about 950 US dollars). Together with national park, the winner of auction received duties to develop hotel and souvenir services in establishment.
General information on national park of Lagodekhi. Originally (in 2003) on its territory appeared the reserve under the name Lagodekhsky, then its area made 1 996 hectares. The status of national park received nature protection object two years of the late.
