CONSEJOS para VIAJAR a GEORGIA | ¿MERECE la PENA?

Hello, my name is John. And in this video I am going to give you a few tips if you are planning to travel to Georgia. I am just now finishing my trip around the country. In fact, here behind you you can see the Black Sea. I am in the city of Batumi, a very holiday city and as George is a country that is still exploding in terms of tourism where people are starting to come little by little. At the moment it is not so easy to find information to go to other places so well I am going to try to help you here with what has been at least my perspective. trip and I hope that it can be useful to you if you are organizing yours, on the one hand, it is worth visiting Georgia, what you are going to find If you come here or what you should look for to come here Jorge is a perfect place if what you are looking for looking for is a country where there is hardly any tourism, a place that is still growing and right now, in the time I have been here, I have not met practically any foreign people, which is still a very virgin country in that aspect, it is still not so eaten by tourism on the other hand it is a country that offers a lot of nature George is a totally green country. You will see if you move around the country you will see that the landscape is constantly all green mountains and in general it is a very rural country It is a country of many very small towns with very few people, then it has some very cool cities. For example, Tbilisi, which is a fairly large city where there is a chaotic part that is in terms of traffic, the traffic I already told you is the worst thing that I have seen so far but well in the end it is to move with common sense How to get here to Georgia mainly by plane there are direct routes from Barcelona to Madrid at least in Spain today in fact I have taken the first flight from when it was released Now the direct route between Madrid and Georgia specifically in the city of Kuta. If the airline that flies this route is Wiser, which is a low-cost airline that depends on when you get it, it has very cheap flights. I have done a round trip with a suitcase for 150 euros and The price is great because in the end it is almost a 6 hour flight once you arrive here, for me the best thing is that you rent a car for the time you are going to stay because it gives you a lot of freedom, there is the option of getting around by bus or public transport but at the same time In the end, as always, it will slow down your time, but if you are only going to visit a couple of points, for example, Qtaysie, Tbilisi, or if you want to go to the mountains, there are tourist tours or buses that can take you. When I rent a car, I usually look first in comparators to see. How are the prices? Below are some of the websites that I usually use as cheap rentals. The truth is that they are going very well, but in this case from Georgia I have followed another line. I have rented behind a page called local red, which is more private people who rent their car to you, everything is still official in that there is a contract, there is insurance, everything is very well organized. Only it is from private people and they are prices for me, from what I have seen, they are much cheaper prices and For what I need, it has been perfect. A guy came to me. Contact via WhatsApp at all times has been easy and easy and the next day we met, he brought me the car, we signed the entire contract, we inspected the car, he left me the keys and the following week, Now I When I am already leaving the country, I return the car not in the city of Kutaichi but at the airport with an extra cost. In this case, it has been like 5 euros. The truth is that it has been very cheap because in a regular rental company, returning it to an office different can be super expensive 50 100 euros more expensive so with this it has been an ease for me because the guy comes to the airport picks up the car and takes it away so I highly recommend this website because at least for me at all times You are in contact with this person for any questions, problems you may have with the car. Apart from that, I always travel now with separate insurance, not the one offered by the rental companies called Rental covers. I do n't really know if it works. Well, because I have n't had to use it until now, but what it gives me is that it offers comprehensive insurance that is much cheaper than what rental companies usually offer, which depends on where the prices are usually usury and are not worth the price. It's a pity that there are times when you rent a car for 20 euros a day and the comprehensive insurance is 30 or 40 euros a day. It does n't make sense to drive through Georgia. What I recommend is that you use common sense, surely if you have read there information, you are going to say that they drive terribly here, that it is super dangerous, etc. I have not seen it really dangerous. It is true that people drive as they want and they trust common sense more than traffic rules. By this I mean that above all there are some points That do not respect the speed limit, on the one hand, they drive well above the speed limit, that is, as you see, on the other hand, when overtaking, this happens a lot in Eastern Europe, in Greece, Turkey, this entire area, they never respect the continuous line. They are always going to overtake wherever they can, whether on the highway, on secondary roads with a single lane, etc. If you can throw it, there is a gap there I am going to throw the car. They can flash the long ones. They can honk at you to make you move to the shoulder. that you can so that they can overtake go two cars or more in the same lane that in the same lane they are trying to overtake you, be it a traffic zone and you will see that they are parallel to you or two cars are going in the same lane to try overtaking etc. I have even seen cars overtaking on the shoulder that is not even paved to overtake traffic on the right, I mean I have seen everything here so what I tell you is that you have to use a little common sense, simply you and Stay calm in your lane at your speed and if they want to overtake you, don't get into traffic jams, turn a little to the right and let them pass you and that's it without a problem and you go. That's how everything is going to go well. Afterwards, the accommodation in general, the accommodation here in Georgia is Much cheaper than in other parts of Europe, I always use booking and it has gone quite well for me except in the first place, the first hotel I had in Kutaysi, which was a hotel that I couldn't find where it was, that is, I don't know if it doesn't exist. the hotel and it's a scam or what but I couldn't find the place my recommendation is that you look closely at the reviews I did but above all also that in the images try to look for facades That is to say that you can see the facade from the street and that then there are no surprises when you go because there are times when they are not hotels as such that are visible to the eye but rather it is inside an alley tucked into a portal with a strange door. It depends on how you are going to go because it can be a bit problematic so try to look In this case, there is like a facade. Of course, the indications are very obvious, because it's about money. I always tend to do the same thing. I go with a Revolut-type wallet card, etc., and I put the money here so that if anything happens. Well, let them take it away from me. and what I do is withdraw money from the ATM as I arrive, I make money in cash to have for the entire trip and then set aside everything I can to pay with a card here the use of the card is quite widespread everywhere but there are many areas. So if you go to small towns where the restaurants or hotels do not even accept cards or if they do accept the card it will be with a surcharge of the same 3% or 5% then in those places it is worth paying in cash to To have internet on your trip, I recommend that you buy a SIM card. It is the most convenient. The typical tourist SIM cards that give you data for the entire trip. Here you have them in different operators. You will see that many people always recommend Olafly or Fly, which works very well because It takes away the inconvenience of having to buy a SIM card when you arrive at the destination. It is a service that you buy, you buy it online from home and it gives you the possibility of having a digital SIM in your mobile phone because you configure it and simply when you arrive at the destination you activate it. So this is going very well, it's very comfortable, so what's wrong with it? What's the problem? It's usually much more expensive. My recommendation, if you have the time, is that you go to a local mobile operator store. The one that works best is Macy. I'll write it here too. It is an operator that has a network throughout the country and it is the one that I have used. I think that there has not been a moment that no one has had coverage except when doing some route through the mountains there, it has been lost, but it is good that it is obvious that these stores are the Vais to have everywhere I recommend that you buy it in the city not at the airport because it is always more expensive I bought it in Kuta Isi as soon as I arrived the next day in the morning I went and they are super economical You are going to have different plans for one week two weeks one month with different data of 2 gigabytes 4 GB 4 gigabytes I think it cost me 2 and a half euros at the exchange rate which is for two weeks a maximum of 4GB and more or less what I have spent and in exchange the Fly Well maybe that same card can charge 15 euros 20 which can be 10 times more expensive than a local card here you eat incredibly well Especially the kinkalis which are like empanadas some pieroggies some xia lombas whatever you want Call them they are empanadas made of a filled dough meat potato cheese that are delicious the cat yapuri which is the typical bread that you have probably seen many times that is open in the middle and is filled with cheese with a fried egg with lard or butter and it is spectacular just like this there are other dishes like The Ollapuri, which is a casserole that is a mixture of meat with potatoes and vegetables, is all very good and worth it and on top of that it is usually very cheap, so I have eaten complete menus for 10 euros more or less in exchange. So it is obviously very good. in places like tiffles the capital here in batumi which are holiday cities it will be a little more expensive but in general if you go to towns and like that you are going to eat for nothing the people here tend to be quite friendly except behind the wheel which is quite aggressive In the personal treatment they are very friendly people, they are not people as open as in warmer cities like the Mediterranean who are not going to come smiling and hug you, they are people of Well, typical of Eastern Europe but then in the personal treatment they are very people. friendly that if you need anything they will try to help you but it is true that communication is complicated because here English is not yet so widespread here in general people speak Georgian And they know how to speak Russian it is heard less and less because in the end since 2008 The conflicts have been very strong with this country, so they are becoming more and more unaware of them, which is why it is increasingly young people who are beginning to learn English, so it is easier for you to communicate with young people and, above all, people who work. In hotels, in restaurants, it will be easier for you to communicate with them. There is a lot of Stray Dog theme, which for me is what I liked the least. It is true that they are well treated within the space. You will see that they are all marked. here in the ear That's because they have them under control, they are sterilized and people treat them well, they feed them, they interact with them. So you're going to see that in general they are quite tame dogs that are going to come to you so that you can give them a little bit of attention so that you caress them etc. so in that aspect good but it still makes me sad to see them there in the street alone someone run over by the road so I don't like that part so much but well the thing is that here there are no protectors as such I I recommend that you watch my series of videos that I have made of Georgia, where each of those points has been visited in more detail in case you want to have more complete information. So nothing, I don't want to make the video much longer. I hope you can find it useful. these tips if you are planning to travel to this country, which I already told you has surprised me a lot and I am very happy to have come and I hope I have been able to dedicate more time to it, any type of question, doubt that you may have, as always, you can contact me here for the comments like on instagram otherwise I hope you liked the video I hope you liked the series of videos you have already seen them and I hope you see you on the next trip until next time