Amelia Stewart Travel

13/12/2024

: art v reality. Georgia continues to fight for its freedom 👊🏼❤️🇬🇪🇪🇺
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03/12/2024

Protesters continue to rally in Tbilisi and across the country for the sixth consecutive night following the Government’s announcement that it was suspending talks on EU membership. Fireworks are lobbed into Parliament as riot police retaliate with water canon, then tear gas and pepper spray as the night wears on. Democracy versus Putinism.. It feels like Georgia is battling for the soul of the country. 👊🏼🇬🇪💥
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🇬🇪 🇬🇪 #❤️🇬🇪

06/11/2024

The Egyptian God Horus offers warmth, colour and light as the sun sets on the Nile in an increasingly unstable world.
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#❤️🇪🇬

04/11/2024

Through a filter of smog, dust and sand there’s something about the light in Egypt ✨ 🇪🇬
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26/10/2024

Polling underway in 🇬🇪 today. Many believe the election may be the most crucial vote of their lifetimes as it stands at a crossroads between EU and Russia.

🇬🇪👉🏼 🇪🇺 or 🇬🇪 👈🏼 🇷🇺

“It’s an existential election,” Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said.

👊🏼 🇬🇪🫶🏼❤️

🇬🇪 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #❤️🇬🇪

21/10/2024

Crowds demonstrate in Freedom Square last night as Georgia prepares for crucial upcoming elections this week. 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🙌🏼🤞🏼
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🇬🇪 🇬🇪 🇬🇪 #❤️🇬🇪

15/10/2024

Church bells 🔔 at The Church of the Dormition at Vardzia - the spiritual focus of the site. The ‘secco’ paintings inside the church indicate links to the Byzantine world and a little tunnel leads to a cold water pool - the tears of Queen Tamar 👸 💦 -
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🇬🇪 #❤️🇬🇪

11/10/2024

Lucky to have such CURIOUS, kind, fun, supportive interesting and interested guests on my tours 💫 it’s been a gloriously busy year filled with those long suffering - and fresh blood :) - and I’m grateful to you all. Many guests this year have travelled with me over the last 20 years to countries including 🇱🇾 🇪🇬 🇮🇷 🇸🇾 🇺🇿 🇹🇷 🇦🇱 🇲🇦 🇪🇹 🇦🇲 🇬🇪 🐪
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09/10/2024

Morning light in Ateni valley, 7th century Ateni Sioni ⛪️ surrounded by orchards of plum, cornelian cherry, quince, and persimmon. And vineyards of course 🍇 🍂 🍷❤️ 🇬🇪
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🇬🇪 #❤️🇬🇪

01/10/2024

To understand Georgia it’s often said that you have to see a Georgian dance - this is really the story of Georgia 🇬🇪. The brilliant, dynamic, national dance company Sukhishvili embodies the spirit of all that is Georgia and I love watching them. Catch them if you can. More in my stories 💃🏼💫❤️🇬🇪
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🇬🇪 #❤️🇬🇪

24/09/2024

Wine labels for life 💫🍷 tasting 🍇

#❤️🇬🇪 ❤️🇬🇪

15/08/2024

The walking in this region is wonderful - but challenging - with multiple daily ascents/descents over snowy passes, crossing rivers and streams, descending into vertiginous ravines, along knife edge ridges, and bashing through dense muddy forests. The weather shone, thundered and poured but beyond the odd shepherd not a soul did we see for 5 days. Magical sunsets like this.
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14/08/2024

Elguja Morgoshia prepares a cauldron of ‘elarji’ for a late breakfast one morning. A Mingrelian recipe made with maize, corn flour and cheese from his cows and goats, it was quite delicious spread out hot on a bench in his hut, and accompanied with his home made ‘matsoni’ (fresh yoghurt). Elguja is one of the last cow herdsman in the region, spending the summer months in the mountains before trekking them back down to Poti on the coast.
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14/08/2024

13/08/2024

First night camp on an epic 6 day trek around Tobavarchkhili (Silver) lakes in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of NW Georgia. This is Lake Okhoje at 2550m - one of the most picturesque lakes where a guardian angel rock formation keeps watch. Turn the pic sideways for multiple faces: 🐵 👽 👵🏽
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#❤️georgia🇬🇪

25/07/2024

A rare glimpse of Mt Ushba at dusk from . Although it doesn’t rank in the 10 highest peaks of the Caucasus range, Ushba (4710m) is known as the “Matterhorn of the Caucasus” for its spire-shaped double summit. It’s considered one of the most difficult ascents by mountaineer’s due to its steep profile and unstable weather, alongside plenty of myths and legends too. So compelling. One day.. 🏔️
Also - the definitive guide to the Svaneti region for every kind of trail and trek on foot and horseback and much else besides is Richard Baerug’s book - available at the guesthouse and .tbilisi

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**hba ⛪🗻🗿 #❤️🇬🇪

07/07/2024

I spy PIE 👀
Tushetian food is some of the best in Georgia - these were two standout meals :
Pic 1
Kotori- Tushetian cheese bread. This one is oozing ‘erbo’ - clarified butter, and was quite delicious. Also
‘Chishdvari’ -hot corn bread with cheese inside. And
‘badrigani nigvzit’ - aubergine and walnut rolls.
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Steamed ‘ch’arkhali’ (chard)with wild basil
Fried ‘soko’ (mushrooms) with sour cream
Salad with blueberry sauce (skinned tomatoes )
‘Nadugi’ cheese with tarragon pesto
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**heti **hetinationalpark **h **hetiantraditions **hetianfood **hetitrip #❤️🇬🇪