Mestia

Svaneti Region

The Greater Caucasus

Georgia

October 11, 2012

Dear Friends,

It’s a toss-up.

Do we prefer the scenery in the pre-dawn hours or in the afternoon?

Before dawn, I took photographs from my bedroom window and from the front entrance of the hotel.

 Megi, the hotel waitress, and I took a short excursion in the afternoon.  We walked along the nearby river and then up the hill to the Saint Nicholas Church. 

Erected in the 9^th to the 12^th Centuries, the towers of Svaneti are the fortified homes of the highland Svan warriors.