Budget Vacation Guide 2012: Tiblisi, Georgia

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I was in Georgia in August/September 2000 (Tiblisi,Gori(Birthplace of Stalin) and Kutusi as a financial volunteer and lived on the economy. At that time everything was falling apart as electricity was on and off during the day,water was only available several days a week.The roads were terrible and they drove crazy . Out side the main city the road was three lanes and it was a game to see who was going to blink first before hitting head on. There were many wrecks on the side of the road so accidents were frequent and neither blinked. In Gori I received a personal tour of Stalins Museum which was interesting but I was the only tourist. Unemployment was about 50% and the apartments I lived in were really run down. Having said all of this the people were nice and the surprising thing was their literacy rate was higher than ours in the USA. Their schools were falling apart yet they received a good education. My interperture was a young women from one of these run down schools who was chosen as an excahnge student and spent her senior year in the US and graduated number one in her class. They value education. They place more on teaching then facilities .

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