It was a short call when I started to explore opportunities for a next-day Kazbegi trip. MegaCity people ( thank you, Nina!) were extremely helpful and managed to find me a driver for the next day. Driver Moris was also an excellent guide, so I enjoyed the day-trip (10-19) very much! Big advantage of having a car of your own is a more flexible and perhaps more tailored agenda. The traffic on the road maybe very heavy, so one might want to have more stops than the tour bus can afford. It is definitely a destination to go for - mountains, views, churches, hiking opportunities, tunnels to protect from avalanches etc - it is more than you can grasp, so, if possible, make at least one night stay-over at Kazbegi.

We started with 45 minutes delay at our meeting point and were not informed about the delay although mobile phone number and mail address were available! At the stops we always continued our trip much later than initially communicated. The restaurant was disappointing, badly organized and food of a poor quality! The bus did not stop at the city center of Kazbegi. We had to walk there from a parking spot outside the center. The spots were nice but the planning offers a lot of potential for improvement!