We immediately agree with your husband before the trip, that the fortress of Narikala in Tbilisi will have a mandatory place to visit. We decided to go to her naturally on foot, and our path started from Mtazminda Park. The path was not possible, but believe me, it was worth it. But we admired the whole road with excellent views, and if you are all right with health, enough free time and you are not afraid to go for a long distance, then I strongly recommend that you also make this way on foot. Get along the way a lot of positive emotions.
The fortress of Narikal is located in Old Tbilisi - on the mountain near the Botanical Garden. In fact, if you wish, you can drive up by bus, the second option is to climb onto the funicular, well, you can still go from the Metro station Avlabari (this stop is the nearest). We chose our way and went on foot. The entrance to the fortress is completely free and it is open constantly.
In fact, the distance from the Park Mtazminda to the fortress of the floor is five kilometers, but it is necessary to go uphill, so it will take it from one and a half to two hours. It all depends on how speed you will go. The path for which we moved forward very comfortable and almost all of it is located in the shade of trees, so I think that even in the summer will not be very hot. And we were there at the beginning of May and the trees only bloomed and all the first freshness and spring breath.
In general, we admired the whole road on this path with beautiful views of the city, and the higher we rose, the more the review was. People on the trail somehow was quite small, it can be seen that it is not particularly like to lift on foot. On the way, we met the sculpture "Mother Georgia" - a very monumental structure. Then we finally got to the observation deck and the funicular, which for some reason for some reason, for some reason, did not work on this day. Our hopes go down on it down did not justify.
The observation deck was very interesting - one part of it seems to be hanging in the air, you can consider the destroyed walls of the fortress and of course Tbilisi in all its magnificence. Now we have already come to the territory of the fortress, the exact date of construction is still unknown, but in the fourth century our era it already existed. This is known absolutely. The name of the floor was given to her Mongols, and this expression translates into Russian as a "small fortress".
At that time, she was incredibly well fortified and no one could take it even storming. Unfortunately, until our time, she was poorly preserved - a strong earthquake of 1827 destroyed most of the fortress. No one has become restored, because there was no particular need. But now it is one of the main attractions in Tbilisi and very visited by tourists.
That day, the people in the fortress were quite a bit and we have already seen everything that you can. As I understood, if you wish, you can climb on the walls of the fortress, because we have not seen any restrictive characters. That's just it can be life-threatening, so you need to be extremely careful. The whole city from here is visible as a palm. Views of course stunning. On this actually, our acquaintance with the fortress was completed and we went on the streets of Old Tbilisi in our temporary refuge.