Tbilisi Open Air Ethnographic Museum

 

Tbilisi has an Open Air Ethnographic Museum with old houses demonstrating the old ways of living. This picture overlooks the museum from our delicious Georgian food lunch spot.

Chronicles of Georgia, Jvari Monastery, & Mtskheta

 

The Chronicles of Georgia are massive with a height of 30-35 meters (98-114 feet). It's like an 8 or 9 story building. It's big. After that, we visited the 6th-century Jvari Monastery with it's overlook of the original capital in Mtskheta. We finished the day in Mtskheta and had a nice lunch by the river. All of these sites are about 25 km north of old town Tbilisi.

Diamond Bridge - Dashbashi Georgia

 

Kass Land is an amusement park seemingly in the middle nowhere. It's a 2-hour drive west of Tbilisi. Why is it out there? Well, they built this scary cool glass bridge with a diamond shaped coffee house of glass in the middle. The coffee was in regular cardboard cups, so that was a missed opportunity to serve them in double-walled glass coffee mugs. Otherwise, there was plenty of glass here.

Tbilisi MoMA & National Gallery

 

This is the Apple of Love at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Tbilisi Georgia. It's really called the Zurab Tsereteli MoMA because he's the only featured artist. Fortunately he made a lot of interesting paintings and sculptures in the museum and around the city. He made the massive Chronicles of Georgia which will be another post.

Georgian Museum of Fine Arts

 

The Georgian Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi is a cool looking building. It has a mirrored glass exterior and a glass central staircase. If that freaks you out then be sure to take an elevator instead of appearing to float on nothing while taking the stairs.

Old Town Tbilisi & Mother of Georgia

My work had me in Tbilisi for a few weeks, so I brought my wife and we explored the city on the weekends. Here's a day that started in the scenic Old Town at Liberty Square. There's ruins of the old wall along the perimeter of old town.

Vesak Colombo Sri Lanka

 

A great aspect of living near Gangaramaya Temple is that the Buddhist events are a short walk away. This weekend was the celebration of Vesak. The streets near us were filled with festive lights and displays.