Friday, June 03, 2005

Vardzia Cave City

CULTURE:

Vardzia Cave City

My friend Hans Heiner Buhr is there now. It is a fabulous place in the caucasus/georgia. Read next travelogue and you know more. In Vardsia there are a very politely monk. He can show you the monastery.


"Vardzia is a cave city in southern Georgia, near the border with Armenia, that was built in the twelfth century by Queen Tamara. During much of its history it was used as a monastery. The city was built high in the cliffs to make it safe from invading Persians." Read more...

Report by Hans Heiner Buhr: The monk Giorgi from Vardzia



This is the monk Georgi

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