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The Map Method: Planning a Two-Week Georgia Route
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Trip planning fails the same way everywhere: it starts with a search engine instead of a shape. For Georgia, draw the country first. Find your three anchors — the mountain, table or village you would genuinely rearrange the trip for — then build the route around them.
Keep the lines moving in one direction. Tbilisi to Kazbegi to Kakheti is a journey; Tbilisi to Kazbegi to Kakheti to Batumi to Kazbegi is a collection of transfers. Geography is part of the experience.
Use 60-30-10: sixty percent of days for the places you came for, thirty percent for discovery, ten percent deliberately empty. Weather, conversation and the village you did not plan for are not interruptions. They are the trip.
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