Our longest journey from Tbilisi was to Stepantsminda and took some 3 hours by mini-bus which we took from a train/metro station on the edge of Tbilisi. The mini-buses in Georgia run when they are full, on a fixed route with stops on demand. Since Stepantsminda is a reasonably important settlement our mini-bus driver took only passengers for Stepantsminda and only made a single stop, for refreshments. Our journey wound north on what is called the “Georgian Military Highway” as it took troops from Russia to its borders with Turkey and Iran. However the closer we got to the border between Georgia and Russia the road was increasingly a lorry park as they seemed to be waiting to move in convoy north, into Russia. The journey was through stunning scenery with the single track (in each direction) road snaking through a steep valley.
We only wanted to visit a single place near the town,
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