LETTER FROM THE CAUCASUS; Baedeker Still Useful for Georgian Road Traveler

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 3, 1992| Author: Michael Dobbs | Copyright information

The "Georgian military road" connecting Europe and Asia across the rugged Caucasus mountain range is "one of the most beautiful mountain roads in the world," noted the intrepid travel writer Karl Baedeker in 1914. But beware of "the natives," he wrote: Hiring a horse is "seldom possible without long and tedious bargaining."

Three-quarters of a century later, the horse has given way to the motor vehicle as the predominant means of transport in this outermost corner of Europe, but othe...

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