We Drove to the Russian Border (on Georgia's Most Scary Road) EXTREME Winter Vanlife - Caucasus 🇬🇪

Join us on an extreme winter van journey along the dangerous Georgian Military Road into the Greater Caucasus Mountains 🇬🇪

In this episode of our van travel series we begin with a snowy winter camp spot in the Pankisi Valley where we demonstrate our camper van wood burner set up, and the challenges of travelling in a van in the winter. We give you a brief history of the Pankisi Valley with some beautiful drone videography, before crossing a snowy mountain pass.
We drive the dangerous Georgian Military Road to reach Kazbegi in the Greater Caucasus Mountains, stopping off at the Russia-Georgia Friendship Monument at Gudauri and getting stuck on the 2395m high Jvari Pass along the way. When we reach Stepantsminda we go out for traditional Georgian food including lobio, ajapsandali and shotis puri.
Unfortunately the extreme -22ºC overnight temperature causes our gelled diesel in our van, and causes us van problems at high altitude. Fortunately we mange to repair it ourselves, and embark on a snowy tour of the Sno Valley Giant Stone Head Sculptures, Truso Valley, Terek Valley, Pansheti Towers, Gergeti Trinity Church, Sioni Basilica, Daryal Gorge and Daryal Monastery. We end our journey at the Georgia-Russia border, on the frontier with Ingushetia, the furthest North-East point we can reach in our van.

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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:24 Winter camping
00:03:01 Wood burner set-up
00:05:18 Winter van challenges
00:08:17 Pankisi Valley
00:10:10 Snow driving
00:13:31 Georgian Military Road
00:19:15 Russia-Georgia Friendship Monument
00:22:02 STUCK at 2400m
00:26:30 Dangerous drivers
00:29:34 Trying Georgian food
00:35:28 -22ºC Gelled diesel
00:40:12 Tour of Kazbegi
00:44:16 We reach the Russian border
00:46:14 Outtakes

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