tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47885157726441003832024-03-05T15:28:03.656-08:00Travels in the Pankisi ValleyTHIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS WITH MY WIFE IN THE PANKISI VALLEY GEORGIA.
INSPIRED BY PREVIOUS JOURNIES MADE TO TUSHETI ON HORSEBACK WITH MY FAMILY.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02163388801128962398noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4788515772644100383.post-4690589614725801282014-06-30T07:33:00.000-07:002015-03-02T03:57:26.640-08:00 Discovering Pankisi. A brief introduction.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">n 2008 I wrote a Blog about my travels with my
family in Tusheti. The Blog became a bit of an institution with many travelers
using it as a point of reference for the region. Time has since passed, my
daughters now experience their own adventures, while leaving my wife and I to
discover the world's treasures on our own. This Blog is about some of those
treasures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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exploring the world is you meet all kinds of kindred spirits. One of those
spirits is Gurjeet Batth who over the past few years has been discovering the
joys of Georgia, specifically the region of Pankisi. After many conversations while
comparing notes he persuaded my wife and I to take a trip to the Pankisi valley
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trip taken by my wife and I in June 2014 to the Pankisi valley, due south of
the Tusheti National park, on the doorstep of Akhmeta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been largely forgotten by travelers due to some recent history when Chechen
refugees were coming over the border from Russia. The area was considered
turbulent and travellers were discouraged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Time has since past, the region is now back to its sleepy self and
without a tradition of tourism. The only distinguishing feature of this region
is it is still inhabited by the Kist. The Kist, who are Sunni Muslims,
populated the area over three hundred years ago. What sets the Kist apart, is that many of the women practice </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sufism</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">
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introduction to Pankisi paints a compelling picture for you. To pull my story into focus,
scroll down and learn more about this hidden gem cradled in the Caucuses.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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exciting and closer to local life. Nazy’s Guesthouse was one of those genuine surprises.
A large and beautifully maintained house, Nazy lives with her Mother and Father
running an exceptionally clean and well turned out accommodation. The magic of
Nazy’s place was not the house, which is charming, but the food. Everything is
grown or reared by the family. The cows are milked, providing wonderful fresh
milk, yogurt and cheese. The chickens flourish and do their very best for your breakfast
and the kitchen garden provides a cornucopia of fresh produce. All of which is cooked
fresh or preserved and cherished by the visitors. The following pictures
illustrate Nazy’s Homestay, their garden and the village of Jokolo. Try this link for more <a href="http://nazysguesthouse.com/" target="_blank">http://nazysguesthouse.com/</a></div>
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This is not our messy room but I took a quick sneak at some others before visitors arrived.<br />
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Melissa and I keep a vegetable garden but this is something else.</div>
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A very happy looking frog. Always a good sign of an organic vegetable garden.</div>
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Neighbouring homes in Jokolo.</div>
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Jokolo church. Although the community are Muslim there is this very well preserved church in the village. </div>
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I just love these shops, packed to the brim with colourful goodies. Great bread and tins of sardines which are perfect for a picnic.</div>
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Some of the houses towards the mountains north of the village are very old indeed and still made in the traditional construction, similar to Tusheti. This is the exception but worth finding. </div>
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A few yards from Nazy's house are the meadows either side if the river where the cattle graze and local horses swish their tails keeping the odd fly at bay. You will find families of Geese strutting by and Turkeys looking for shade under the Walnut trees. Everything would be perfect but this is also a place villagers throw their debris. Not a great deal but this is a working community. </div>
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our trip to Pankisi was to take the opportunity and learn about sheep cheese
making in the region and using our guesthouse as a base, discover the many
local cultural delights.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> The following story illustrates our little journey
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trip from Tbilisi we swiftly made our way to Jokolo by taxi and settled into
our welcoming Guest House. An airy place tucked down a side road close to the
river called Nazy’s Guest House. More of her and her family later. The
following morning we were introduced to Ramzan who was going to be our horseman
and guide in the mountains. Our quest was simple, ride into the mountains, stay
with some shepherds and photo document how cheese is made in the Caucuses
Alpine pastures. Why? Well Melissa and I had seen shepherds making cheese in
Romania and even stayed with Cow Herders in Hutsulshchyna in South Ukraine but
we had never been able to photo document Shepherds making sheep cheese on the
mountainside. You saw it here first. Try this link for cheese making
adventures in Southern Ukraine - Hutsulshchyna and don't ask me to
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This was a new adventure for Ramzan and he rose to the occasion. Unlike Nazy, who speaks perfect English and I mean perfect, Ramzan speaks Russian, Chechen and possibly a few other languages but not English. Not that this ever mattered as he is a wonderful man who is testament a smile goes a very long way and Nazy was only a mobile phone call away. Yes you can get a signal everywhere, especially in the mountains.</div>
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Our ride was a slow day's ride which if you are fit you could walk. I had promised Melissa a wooden cabin but our man with the cabin no longer milked Sheep and Goats so we rode for another hour and found a father and son team of Azerbaijani shepherds. They were a bit surprised to see a middle aged English couple on horseback but my advice is on such occasions go equipped with a box of 200 cigarettes and a jar of coffee. You will be friends in a trice. </div>
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A short walk from the tent is a glacial lake. A real treat for Melissa who got very excited about this rare mountain occurrence but not as excited as the frogs that night who sung a wonderful chorus all night long.</div>
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We arrived just as the curds had been separated from the whey and placed into muslin bags. The curds are then squeezed on a make shift draining board to remove as much whey as possible.</div>
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Once the cheeses have been drained they are put into plastic tubes where salt is sprinkled between each cheese. With the tube filled with cheeses they are sealed tightly and left to ferment.<br />
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A very proud Shepherd who has over 500 goats and sheep to look after. 300 milkers all of which arrived at dusk. We were beginning to worry if the cheese we could see was from cows which is often the case. My wife is allergic to cow's milk hence the fascination and quest to find sheep cheese. This is now a very rare sight as it is much easier to tend a dairy herd than milk sheep and goats.</div>
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This lad took the sheep and goats up onto the mountainside. Notice his knapsack. I've only seen these in museums. The knapsack is made from a sheep's stomach and very special indeed if you like such things. </div>
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These sheep's ears fascinated me. They are cut off a sheep if it dies through an accident or natural causes. The Shepherd can then show the owner the ear and prove he has not sold the sheep. Not all of the flock are owned by the shepherd. Some are on loan for folk in the valley below. The owners take a cut of the cheese made. </div>
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Just before milking started two Kist lads arrived from the valley. This is tough work and it takes 5 man hours to milk 300 sheep and goats. The goat's milk gives the cheese a sweet flavour. </div>
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Once the milking had finished we saddled up. The idea was originally to stay longer but the ride up had been tough for the horses and I'm now very arthritic. We made our way down to Jokolo at a leisurely pace and Melissa walked.</div>
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An end to a magical trip and so easy to arrange with Nazy's help. You know you've got to do it!<br />
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national dish and Georgia is no different but trying to find the perfect
example of mothers cooking is often akin to seeking the Holy Grail. Here is one
such quest satisfied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">There are two
national dishes in Georgia. Khachapuri (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular"; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Menlo Regular"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">ხაჭაპური</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">),
which is a cheese bread, fried in the pan, the best I've eaten was in Tusheti
and made by the women who made the cheese, which was a bit of a head start.
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dumpling made of twisted knobs of dough, stuffed with meat and spices. Sounds
simple but so is the perfect Yorkshire pudding until you try it. For those of
you who have no idea what I'm talking about Yorkshire pudding is a savoury dish.
It's batter baked in the oven and eaten with roast beef. Heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nazy's from our glorious trip with the shepherds, Nazy's mother promised to make
Khinkali for us. The following blog entry is a master class in the art of the
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02163388801128962398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4788515772644100383.post-6688733334950888012014-06-26T03:07:00.000-07:002015-03-15T10:39:46.406-07:00The craft of making Kvevri (Georgian: ქვევრი) often incorrectly spelled as "Qvevri". <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Kvevri are
enormous terracotta urns or amphorae buried in the ground and used to store wine
while it ferments. In the past I understand these magnificent storage jars were
also used for storing grain, butter, cheese, vodka but primarily used for wine
making in Georgia. Some wonderful wine is made using Kvevri and I thought
while in Pankisi we would try and find a traditional maker. Nazy, who is
teetotal, was kind enough to find the local Kvevri maker, a gentle giant of a man called Zurab Karaulashvili, in Vardisubani Village near Telavi. The following images
illustrate this exceptional process of coiling and raising Kvevri. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Yes this is me standing by typical Kvevri. Once fired they are covered in cement to help strengthen them. Metal straps are also added to help protect them when an earthquake occurs. </span><br />
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Below is Zurab Karaulashvili outside his workshop which was established in 1881. He was kind enough to take time out of his day to show us the whole process of making kvevri, a very labour-intensive process. Zurab told us he is the only Kvevri maker in this area of Khaketi. In 2014 he was charging 1 lari per litre volume = 2000 lari for a 2000 litre kvevri.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The clay is first dug from the ground 6km away. Sand is collected from the Alazani river bed 11 km away, sieved (through bed springs) and mixed 1:5 with the clay in an electric pugmill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">After the clay comes out of the pugmill, this lady removes the larger stones but retains the small white ones which give the clay its strength. She cuts off big wedges with a curved wire and rolls them by hand into sausage shapes ready for the potter to make the kvevri.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eight <span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kvevri are carefully worked in a cool dry shed away from the sunlight. The bases of these kvevri are dug into the ground because the shed roof is so low (notice the pottery props around the base). The clay needs to be kept moist so each coil can be worked in. After adding on several coils, the female assistant shines her torch on the outside of the pot so that the potter sees what he is doing while smoothing the outside with a wooden spatula. As the pots grow in height, they increase the height of wooden planks that the potter walks on around the pots. 8 kvevri take 4-5 cubic metres of clay and 1 cubic metre of sand.</span></span><br />
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The next village down the road from Jokolo is called Duisi. Duisi
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the pharmacy is, however the highlight for us was visiting the felt maker Zizi. Her house is at the
centre of the village under three massive walnut trees. Felt making is exceptionally
hard work and often made by women. The following images show what we saw on a brief unnannounced visit. Remember this is not for tourists but the real deal.<br />
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The sheep's wool is carded, boiled and then beaten. More than that I can't tell you.</div>
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This lady is making felt hats for grape pickers. A traditional cap which keeps the picker warm when picking grapes at dawn.<br />
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Without an interpreter at hand, we managed to communicate with sign language, and were able to purchase two lengths of Zizi's hand made black and white felt to take home with us. I've since made a lens case for my camera with the felt.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02163388801128962398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4788515772644100383.post-13836580919222389202014-06-24T04:34:00.000-07:002015-03-15T10:42:25.981-07:00Water Mill in Jokolo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A few minutes walk from Nazy's house, towards the river is a little gem of a water mill. As the millstones fly around the local maize is ground into a fine flour. These images capture a tradition rapidly vanishing in the Georgian countryside.<br />
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If you like gardening and growing vegetables here is a feast for your eyes. If only our veg patch was as abundant as this. All of the food we eat was cultivated in this magnificent vegetable garden. The family cow muck is used to spread on the ground and everything is organic. There is enough fruit and veg here to feed an army. If you ever make the trip ask to see how the fruit is preserved . Melissa and I preserve our fruit but this is done on what I consider an industrial scale albeit domestic . Nazy's Mother and Father are super human. <br />
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Melissa and I spent a blissful week in Pankisi based in the village of Jokolo. Travelling around the local region was effortless by taxi, bus or hired car. However Georgian taxi drivers are a breed apart and many have missed their vocation as racing drivers. The following images are a selection of what we discovered in the valley and beyond in Alvani and Telavi.<br />
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Melissa and I chanced upon this bee keeper. He moves his bees around the valley hitched up on a truck. If you are riding on a horse keep you distance.</div>
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Nazy took us to visit a fascinating elderly lady called Lili Murtazashvili in the village of Kvemo Alvani, Akhmeta who is a skilled natural dyer, weaver and trades carpets and other locally made textiles, including hand knitted socks and slippers (chitti). Her garden was wonderful with an old brew and dye house. The yarn you can see hanging up is ready for dyeing and this still is for making Chacha, a type of fruit based vodka.</div>
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In Telavi 30 mins drive there is a covered market which is not easy to find. The light being very dim I sadly don't have many pictures, however these ladies chatting while their chickens wait for their destiny in the pot give you an idea of the place.<br />
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Duisi like Jokolo sits alongside the Pankisi river where folk allow their chickens, turkeys cattle and horses to roam freely along the river bank.</div>
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Melissa wanted to try trout fishing which we were not very successful at but the roaring stream was a great place to relax.<br />
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One of the highlights of Pankisi and Jokolo is the little known Batsara reserve. This massive untouched forest has the oldest Yew forest in the world. You will need a guide and start early. I'm sorry we don't have loads of pictures. Trust me this is a genuine wilderness and within 20 mins we found wolf footprints.<br />
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At the head of the Pankisi towards the mountains is a waterfall. The waterfall itself is not much fun but the approach is worth a picnic and a dip in the cool water .</div>
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