Welcome to Day 6 of this 10 Day Travel Photo Challenge! My Dusty Flip-Flops has nominated me for this challenge, thank you my friend! My Dusty Flip-Flops and I have been following each other’s blog adventures here on WordPress since 2017. It’s always nice to reconnect! The 10 Day Travel Photo Challenge: post one photo for 10 days with no explanation…
Tag: Signagi Georgia
Signagi, Georgia – Walking Around Town & Lunch!
The town itself is charming!! A wonderful walk back in time…… Lots of locals selling homemade wool items! I bought a pair of wool slippers like these yesterday! Colorful mats and souvenirs! Handmade wool socks! A seller…. Monument to those Georgians who died in WWII: Names of those who died… View of the city…. Papakha…
Signagi, Georgia – Walking the Wall
The fortress wall was built in the 1770’s to protect the Kakheti people from attacks by the Dagestani people. It was very impressive!! It would have been difficult for the Dagestani people to attempt a surprise attack!!! Papakha time – I’m standing in the one of the towers! S, 🙂
Signagi, Georgia – Bodbe Monastery – Saint Nino’s Shrine
This is a popular tourist attraction and pilgrimage location because it is here that St. Nino, 4th century evangelist of Georgians, relic’s are shrined. I didn’t wear my papakha hat here – it didn’t feel right as this is such an important religious location. I wore my Prague big scarf that swallows the head and…
Signagi, Georgia – Drive to Bodbe Monastery and the Town of Signagi
Dachi picked me up at 11:30am and we were headed east to the Bodbe Monastery and the town of Signagi. On the way we stopped to buy Georgian bread and cheese! The cheese is a cow cheese called ‘Sulguni.’ The bread is called ‘puri’ and is baked in an oven called a ‘tone’. I bought…
