This GEORGIAN City Is More Than Just A Transit Town | ZUGDIDI 🇬🇪
We finally made it to the city of Zugdidi in the samegrelo region here in Western Georgia 🇬🇪
We were originally heading to Abkhazia first but got denied entry as the border is still closed to tourists so here we are in the beautiful little city of Zugdidi.
We head out for a bit of a walk/City tour giving our impressions of what it's like here, most people just transit through the city onwards to the popular tourist mountains of Mestia & Ushguli but we like the underdog destinations so stayed for a while to see what it's all about.
Check out a few market scenes (crazy market video is coming next) found a classic fake McDonald's as always in Eastern Europe that serves shawarma.
Wandered the local neighbourhoods and streets before getting some sweet Georgian snacks from the bakery.
Then headed down the beautiful Zugdidi Boulevard that runs throughout the entire center of the city. Ate a super tasty cheap snack from another bakery before chatting to the street doggos.
We then check out the Dadiani Palace here in Zugdidi which used to house a noble family who governed this region back in the day before meeting an absolute nutter who would not leave us alone.
Just a bit of a quick city tour this place is well worth visiting for a while the market is the greatest in Georgia, people are nice and megrelian food is delicious. Definitely more to this place than just a transit town believe me.
We finish the video showing some bits we bought from the market for cracking prices and give an overall impression of the city 🇬🇪
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Camera Used: Sony FDR X3000
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0:00 Welcome To Zugdidi
1:47 Our Original Plans
2:42 Few Market Scenes
3:30 FAKE Mcdonalds lol
5:03 Wandering Local Streets
6:38 Sweet Bakery Snack
8:19 Zugdidi Boulevard
9:22 Tasty Bakery Lunch
11:12 My Favourite Doggo In Zugdidi
12:33 Dadiani Palace
15:32 AVOID This Man In Zugdidi
17:16 Thoughts On Zugdidi & Mini Market Haul
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Great video guys! I've saved this town to my list!
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Cheers Thorts! Next video is a good one in the market in this town! Have a great day mate! :)
@thorts
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR Looking forward to it!
Nice beginning 😄
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Thankyou!
Great juice shop 😁 That fella near the end tagging you was odd
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
He was a crazy
7:19 that is my favorite pastry called cigarette because of its shape I guess. The stuffing inside is walnut paste and honey mix. It’s delicious. It is so delicious in fact that dunken donut of Georgia made its own version in a shape of a straw and calls it a dunken donut cookie. I enjoyed watching my little hometown. Thanks for posting this. Where you from mate? I was born and raised in zugdidi now a San Francisco Bay Area resident of 23 years… it’s been a while 😊
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Hey cheers for the info! Were from England. We proper enjoyed Zugdidi real nice place
@NEMESAS
Жыл бұрын
Go back to Georgia fake American
Also the Zugdidi boulevard construction works are over, we are in Zugdidi now it's really nice and beautiful
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
I bet its beautiful yeah Zugdidi is a really nice town
Zugdideez NUTz!!!
ზუგდიდი მაგარია სამეგრელო zugdidi magaria samegrelo
@EllisWR
8 ай бұрын
Zugdidi very nice
❤
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Thankyou my friend.
For info, Abkhazia did not refuse your visa, but the border checkpoint was closed at that time, they just reopened it couple days ago so if you want to try again, you can probably get a clearance letter and cross
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Hey Lucas yeah I ment they were not allowing us to cross at the time we tried our best :( we will have to return!
i hope your channel picks up views and subscribers
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Cheers TL appreciate it I hope so too it's hard to keep it real out here haha. Off to another part of the world soon where hopefully people will watch the videos! Have a nice day cheers for watching
somedays whole city is like Mexico yes and some days like this. can't tell why. :D
13:09 no, it's agave 😄😄
have u been in museum? they may not show everything every day but I'm sure it would be interesting. have you seen Napoleons death mask there? Dadiani weapons collection an sh1t like that?
Im from zugdidi❤❤❤❤
@EllisWR
4 сағат бұрын
Legend!
Чеми сакварели калаки 💟
Im Megrelian. Just to clarify: we are Georgian. It's just Georgia as a culture has been around for 6000 years (and our ancestors have lived in Georgia for around 10000 years) which means we have had a lot of time to diverge, and because Georgian geography is so insular with high mountains and a ridiculous amount of rivers and that, this means that our divergent subcultures have had the occasion to seriously idiosyncratise. So despite the fact that main Georgian and Megrelian Georgian languages are nothing like eachother (ask me to do a sentence of ur choice in each so i can illustrate the difference) they are directly related, and so are the people. The Svan people for instance diverged 4000 years ago from the rest of Georgians, so they are reaaally divergent, but fully Georgian nonetheless.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Hey apologies I ment they are branches of Georgian people! Thanks for the interesting info I appreciate it, how do you say some of the basic words? Are the languages very different or just slightly? Thanks Ek
@zuuzuuka
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR no problem, there's just a general misconception out there and I wanted to be sure people understood considering the sensitive political situation in Georgia. Very different. Basic words, ummm, like in Georgian 'the red house is on fire' is 'Tsitel sakhls tsetskhli kidia' and in Megrel it's 'Chita udes dachkhir ont' Though Megrelian today has taken on a lot of loan words from main Georgian, so you will see some similarity here and there, but it isn't intrinsic.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
@@zuuzuuka Super interesting thanks for that, I find the country and all the different regions fascinating
@zuuzuuka
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR well, enjoy your trip, you do decent work trying to be earnest about the destinations u go to.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
@@zuuzuuka Thankyou my friend. Still in Georgia making way down the black sea coastal towns its extremely beautiful 🇬🇪
15:30 I understand that this Guy is not a police officer 😂
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Guy was absolute nuts no idea what the heck was going on mate!
@LiamDoi
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR Maybe he was on narco mate 😂
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
@@LiamDoi hahah who knows. When are you off somewhere new mate?
@LiamDoi
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR On this Weekend I want to visit Denmark and upload my second Video.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
I will await the release :)
Meme I'm a Georgian from Zugdi, I'm just writing in English if you understand 0:37
@EllisWR
17 күн бұрын
Zugdidi is cool!
@HelloEverione
16 күн бұрын
@@EllisWR 🥰🥰
If Georgia didn't have that disaster in 2012, Zugdidi would be so developed that you wouldn't want to leave.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
We loved Zugdidi for the fact it isn't developed! People were lovely like the old days
@BlueSpirit006
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR Yeah that suprised me, despite the extreme poverty and social unrest going on right now.
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Hello, what brought you to a poor country 😅 From where people flee to Europe
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
I have a strong distaste for Western Europe and the 'culture' there :) The caucasus is a beautiful region.
@evolutionisreal1366
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR I was born in the Caucasus and personally I don't like it here, especially the traditions, there is a problem here, remarriage, girlfriends, boyfriends, underdevelopment in the villages, poverty if you don't want it. And if you don't accept all the guests, everyone in the society will look at you badly Here, you are forced to set the table, make a speech, bless him with wine, even if you don't like the man If you decide to have a wife, you have to follow the local traditions, then you have to go to your father-in-law, you have to drink with your relatives, cousins, aunts and everyone else and respect everyone, and then you will get married traditionally In fact, it is hell
@evolutionisreal1366
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR I'm sorry if I can't write in proper English
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Don't worry your English is good my friend.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
I understand I understand yeah everywhere has good and bad sides and everyone likes different things! I wish you good luck though my friend thankyou for commenting.
U guys skiped botanical garden
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Yeah not really my thing!
Sosis😂😂😂😂
@EllisWR
17 күн бұрын
whattttt
Вам бы немного поучиться работать камерой. Город и людей надо показывать , а вы старались показать все с неприглядной стороны. Да и английский у вас не очень, надо поработать над акцентом и произношением. Мне обидно за город моего детства…. И Родину мою.
@EllisWR
8 ай бұрын
I showed what I wanted to see. I'm English, and speak perfect English not the American rubbish you might be used too.
Zugdidi=Lazistani