Tbilisi: Basics & Travel Tips
The 102 Bus in Tbilisi

Tbilisi: Basics & Travel Tips

I always attempt to learn some basic phrases of the local language before traveling to a foreign country, but Georgian was a particularly tough nut to crack. The Georgian alphabet (one of the most beautiful in the world) leaves translators with the tough task of creating Latin-alphabet equivalents, none of which really do the language any justice. There are also many glottal sounds in Georgian that have no English counterparts, making mastering pronunciation as difficult as finding a good phonetic rendering.

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A Day Trip to Naxçıvan City Part I
Naxçivan International Airport

A Day Trip to Naxçıvan City Part I

  Where is Naxçıvan and how do you get there? Naxçıvan is small enclave of Azerbaijan, roughly the size of the state of Delaware, that is completely separated from Azerbaijan proper. Naxçıvan shares land borders with Armenia, Turkey and Iran, although all of the Armenian borders are completely…

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