Hiking Truso Valley in Kazbegi, Georgia (film + guide)
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- Опубликовано: 27 фев 2021
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This video is split into two parts, a visual hike through the Truso Valley, followed by our Truso travel tips and a chat about the hike
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Subtitles are available in English and Georgian.
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Welcome to the Truso Valley, our very first hike in Georgia! This is a fantastic wee day hike from Kazbegi (Stepantsminda), with stunning mountain scenery, colourful travertine mineral springs, an impressive hilltop fortress, and more!
It's a fairly long hike at 21 km return, but it's not too challenging as it's mostly flat. Maximum reward for minimum effort!
We cover everything you need to know to plan your own Truso Valley hike in our accompanying hiking guide over on the blog (www.goingthewholehogg.com/tru..., including a detailed breakdown of the hike, transport info, practical tips, and a map with GPX track download.
Jump ahead to 07:06 in the video for a condensed version of our Truso hiking guide and a bit of chat about our experience.
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Gorgeous Caucasus mountain views, colourful travertine springs, and a crumbling hilltop fortress, the Truso Valley makes for a crackin wee day hike from Kazbegi! Watch the film, then stick around for some travel info in the second half (07:06) and check out our complete guide over on the blog (www.goingthewholehogg.com/truso-valley-hike/) to plan your own hike! Cheers, Kim & Del
Great format, between the images and the advice you give (maps, data, etc.), it's great and original. Congratulations to you and looking forward to discovering your next instagram content. Keep it up!
Thank you Deniz! Trying to make it engaging, but also useful for others looking to visit the same places and we're liking this way of presenting all that. Glad you are too! Thanks as always for watching and appreciating : )
Merci de nous faire partager vos treks en Géorgie, merci de nous faire découvrir ces paysages magnifiques avec vos belles images. Oui ça donne envie ! Continuez ainsi, j'adore !
Very happy to share and glad you enjoy the hikes with us : ) Thanks for watching and appreciating! Kim
Just found you folks , love the video . Hope to visit there someday. Thank you from the hills of . Tennessee USA
Very glad you found us! Georgia has such an amazing variety of landscapes for such a small country, we have loved our time here and still have so much more to share from these mountains. I imagine the hills of Tennessee look a bit different, but we've never been! Cheers, Kim.
Thanks for this video, I’m sat in my hostel in Stepantsminda about to go on this hike in an hour or so.
I’m a lazy assed traveller so any effort like hiking doesn’t come easy to me 😆
But your video has put my mind at ease.
Thanks again.
That’s great! It really is a straightforward hike with plenty of reward. Hope the weather is good and you have a great day 😃
Great work as always, we're off to Mull in May and it's all your fault 😉, looking forward to your next episode. Thanks for sharing your time and travels😊👍
Ha, that's great to hear Simon! I'm sure you'll have much warmer weather than we did and hope you get to see some wildlife. I love travelling in Scotland in May, it's one of my favourite months. Thanks for watching and glad to hear you're enjoying our Georgia adventures too! Cheers, Kim.
Guys, you are the best. Thank you for gps track!
Cheers! Hope you enjoy the hike : )
I went up to ruin the castle. There I met locals. He give me wine and khachapuri. We talk a lot and drink wine. It was unforgettably )) georgian people are awesome
Sounds like a classic Georgian experience - wine and khachapuri by an old fortress! Just perfect. The kind of memories that stick with you long after the trip ends : )
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Thank you very much for let´s us know all details about Georgia. Your videos are really amazing. This is a great for us who live in Argentina at the end of world an so far from Georgia. Best regards for you
We're very glad you enjoyed it and happy to share our experiences in Georgia with you. Thanks for watching and appreciating our work!
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Thanks for watching!
Loved the video, very informative and entertaining. Sooo relaxing to watch, great couple, thankyou.
Thanks again, Martin! Relaxation is the intention, so glad it's working.
Im so glad i found your site! you are the answer to my planning needs:)
best wishes from Norway
Thanks Tony, very happy to help! Enjoy your trip to Georgia when it comes : )
@@GoingTheWholeHogg whatis the best cellphone plan for theese rural areas? especially kazbegi ?
@@tonystovik I would get Magti, it works best across most of Georgia
Oh i am loving watching your beautiful videos from Georgia and would love to visit it !!
Thank you Shweta! So happy you're enjoying them : )
Thank you both for the inspiring guidance and valuable information , had a fantastic and worthwhile hike. Its beautiful and mesmerizing as shown
That's great to hear! Did you hike there recently? How was the weather? We visited in summer, I imagine it looks a bit different at this time of year!
Very nicely done, once again. Your videos are so peaceful. Thanks.
Very glad to share and pleased you're finding the videos peaceful to watch. Thanks for all the support!
It’s great to see hiking options in a different country. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching Andrea! There are so many great hiking opportunities in Georgia, we're looking forward to sharing more with you. Cheers, Kim
Lovely video as always. Glad you highlighted how helpful the border officials where with the filming etc. I am sure that goes a long way to help peoples perceptions, of places that might not be obvious holiday destinations.
Thanks, as always, for watching! Good point, and we're happy to share our experiences, all the better if it plants the seed of a travel idea for others too. Cheers! Kim
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nice vid. great explanation. nice first scenic part. nice recommendations!
Ah, thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it : )
You both make some incredible documentaries! I'm always happy to have a notification of a new video from Going the Whole Hogg. You've inspired me on several occasions to partake upon several of your past journeys. Jeju Olle trail is next on my list whenever quarantine regulations are lifted. Really appreciate the followup further explanations and of course the write ups that you do on each place. Keep being wonderful!
Thank you, Kyle! This is exactly the kind of feedback that keeps us doing what we do and puts a huge smile on our faces. So happy to hear that you've embarked on some of these adventures yourself. I take it you're living in Korea? Which of the same places as us have you visited? The Olle Trail is such a great way of seeing all different sides of Jeju. Sometimes I find myself watching those videos just to relive the journey, we loved it! Thanks so much for your support and for appreciating our work. Cheers! Kim
@@GoingTheWholeHogg You guys have such a great eye for detail and capturing the vastness of the area along your journey. You then capture it so well with your selected music and transitional edits. I lived in Jeju over a decade ago, before the Olle trail was around, but have been stateside (Oregon) for a few years now. I loved your past series on Scotland, Oman, Nepal, Mongolia and this newest one has been fascinating as well. My son (6) and I watch them on Saturday mornings instead of cartoons. We always dream about where to hike to next. Faroe Islands is a bucket list item for us. Where do you fancy your next destination? Curious how you decide to visit your next place? Always looking forward to more of you both and know that your spirit for adventure is certainly infectious! (even Dels' perseverance on the Mustang trail was so earnest, love hearing that kind of information too)
That's so awesome to hear you watch our videos with your son! Although now I'm feeling guilty about the occasional swear word 😅. The Faroe Islands look spectacular, we would love to visit there too. We're still in Georgia for now and will probably remain in the Caucasus region for another few months at least. Hoping cross-border travel to Armenia might be possible this summer so that we can do lots of hiking there on the Transcaucasian Trail. I guess these days the opportunity for hiking plays a big part in choosing where we want to visit, but also good food, interesting architecture, and the overall cost of travel. But ultimately, a warm fuzzy feeling of excitement about somewhere is the deciding factor! That's how we ended up in Georgia a year ago instead of South America (which had been the plan for a long time). Probably no bad thing, seeing as how 2020 played out. Lots of good hiking in Oregon to keep you busy I imagine?
@@GoingTheWholeHogg Heh, I think the thick Scottish accents mask any swear word repetition around here from my son. So cool to hear that you guys are in this vagabond state of being right now in Eastern Europe. Furthest I ever got out to the Caucasus region was central Turkey, hiking around the Goreme region. I had a great time there, and there's so much to explore without a lot of red tape. I always heard going further east in Turkey would have put us in some really lush, open mountain regions. I imagine that extends into Georgia as well. The richness of culture there, as well as the food could have easily extended my 3 week trip into something greater. Transcaucasian Trail looks incredible though. I would love to see your take on the place.
Here we are close to the Oregon Redwoods trail (largest trees in the world), but lacking much else other than fern heaven. This is why I live vicariously through your adventures in the meantime. ;)
You guys deserve so much further recognition. Your storytelling and humor are splendid, but I especially give you praise for your shot selection and editing that B roll footage in pace with the mood of the journey, right in line with the music tempo. It's so enthralling and I find myself watching your adventures several times over. Wish you guys success getting into Armenia and if I could ever help support you somehow, I I owe you for all the educational information and entertainment you continue to provide.
@@koalathekyle the Goreme region is spectacular, bet you have some great memories of hiking there. Mine are mostly from slipping and sliding all down the strange shaped hills and eating a lot of gozleme in a wee outdoor cafe in town. Loved it! Ferns and redwoods sound pretty great too, but we all need a change of scene sometimes don't we, so glad to provide some escape for you. And thank you again for really appreciating our work, it's so great for us to know that all the effort we put into our videos is noticed. We'll keep doing what we're doing and hope that more people like you find us along the way! Have a great weekend : ) Cheers, Kim
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Thanks for watching!
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Watched all of your Georgian adventures, each of those has something special!! Never imagined that Georgia has such nice landscape and geological places (I've been to Iceland!). Very nicely put together and stunning filming & drone footage!!
That's lovely to hear, thanks for watching and glad you're enjoying them all! It's great to share our experiences from Georgia, and highlight some of the amazing scenery there is to see here. For a fairly small country there is a staggering variety of landscapes! Plenty more still to come : )
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It's a beautiful place!
Nice video. I hike in Kazbegi in 2014. It was awesome. Monastery, glacer, ussr meteostation, Juta and Chauki pass, gergeti waterfall my lovely point. But in Trusso valley I met georgian military. They ask me to delete my photo (( because I shot near military base under the castle.
Thanks for watching! Sounds like you saw loads in and around Kazbegi and glad to hear you had an awesome time. We went to similar places, although not the meteostation. Yeah, the border guards are still there under the fortress and are quite particular about which direction you can take photos. We got permission from them first before taking these drone shots. In our next video we will show more of Kazbegi including Gveleti waterfall and Juta, hope it brings back more good memories! Must have been much less developed in 2014, fewer guesthouses and so on. It's quite different now. Cheers, Kim.
Awesome video... I am already planning my trip :) A couple of questions if you don't mind... is this quite a touristy area? It seems empty from your video, but I guess it must get busy? How expensive is Georgia overall? Is it fairly safe? What about English... can you get by without the local language fairly easily? Thanks guys!
Awesome, that's great to hear Danielle! The Kazbegi region (so where this Truso valley and the Gergeti Glacier video are from) is normally a pretty touristy area as it's easily accessible from Tbilisi. There are also other mountain areas which are generally less touristy (ie. Khevsureti/Racha). But, as there's more or less only been domestic tourism for the past year, we hardly met anyone whilst hiking. I suspect this coming summer will still be much quieter than usual, however international tourism is slowly starting up again at the moment.
Budget wise, Georgia is pretty cheap, especially if using public transport and eating at local places, staying in guesthouses etc. Eg. the 3.5 hour marshrutka ride from Tbilisi to Kazbegi costs about $3USD, a guesthouse with dinner and breakfast is about $18, a meal in a local restaurant less than $5.
I would say it's generally safe, yeah. Dangerous driving is when I've felt least safe. English is widely spoken by the younger generation, and in big cities like Tbilisi, especially among those working in the tourism and hospitality industry. Elsewhere and among the older generation, Georgian and Russian are generally the only languages spoken. We speak neither beyond some basics, and managed to get by whilst travelling around last summer with the usual gestures and google translate combo.
Hope this helps, and let us know if you have any more questions! We will be publishing lots more hiking/outdoorsy related guides and videos, but for more general Georgia guides our friend Emily has loads of amazing info on her blog, definitely worth checking out if you haven't found it already (wander-lush.org/). You can check Georgia entry requirements at the moment here - mfa.gov.ge/MainNav/CoVID-19-sakitkhebi/sazgvris-kvetis-regulaciebi.aspx?lang=en-US
Cheers! Kim
Wow! Looks amazing! Which season did you do this hike? This video inspired us. We are planning on doing this 'hike' in the Overlando UAZ in May and wild camp near somewhere along the road. Really looking forward to it.
Awesome, sounds great! And of course we love that van : ) We were in Truso in early July. I'm sure it will be gorgeous in May too. Just be careful on the narrow canyon road on the way into Truso Valley itself, that was one of the scariest drives of our lives (but we were in a Lada Niva with the self proclaimed Vasily Schumacher going at breakneck speed at sunset 😱 - I'm sure you will be more careful drivers, ha!). Have a great time! Cheers, Kim
@@GoingTheWholeHogg Uh ohhh, Thanks for the head up. I will be very careful :-D
Is it just me or is your webpage not loading correctly? I can see the text, but the beautiful pictures are not loading :-(
@@Ninderella Hehe, yeah it's a 'fun' ride ; ) Thanks for the heads up on the webpage! I've checked at our end and everything is loading correctly. Maybe try clearing your browser cache and reloading the webpage? Hopefully this works!
hello! thank you for great video - can I come to the starting point with normal car? so no 4x4?
Thanks for watching! Yes, you can get to Kvemo Okrokana by normal car, but it is a dirt/gravel road for the last section after you turn off the main road at Kobi.
Very nice video. Which month did you visit?
Thanks! We were there in early July
What’s the exchange rate like?
At the moment $1USD is about 3.30 GEL
What month you visit here bro??? This will help me plan my trip . Thanks
We were there in early July. Have heard reports of there still being plenty of snow in April and May. Check out our guide for more info: www.goingthewholehogg.com/truso-valley-hike/
Thanks for reply, I will target July then
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