For the Spot the Future June event we need to find low-cost itineraries from Eqypt, Europe, etc, to Tbilisi. The lower the price, the more people we can cover. You can check and alter the wiki made for this here. However, it would be great if someone would take the responsibility for this task to make sure it is all being coordinated correctly and efficiently.
Reaching Tbilisi:
By train & car
Especially suited if you’re coming from Armenia, the cheapest option is the night train (or bus?) Consider ridesharing to lower the individual costs, anyone up for coordinating a group?
By plane
If you’re coming from Europe or Egypt, the easiest is to fly via Istanbul and catch a connection flight. Plan ahead and check visa rules here (Egyptians especially), if you need one get in touch asap!
Hitchiking: @guaka and @elf Pavlik are experienced hitchikers and @Asta has hitchhiked around Georgia too. So they maybe have some suggestions
Any other creative alternatives you can think of or offer?
My situation is that I am Egyptian but now in Germany with a schengen visa , will I need an entering visa or just stamping the passport ? does anyone know I am searching on the website but can’t find it
I have checked all the website links and apparently no need to ask for a visa prior to coming. If you have a valid passport you can enter the country and get a visa on the spot, allowing for a max 30 days stay. Am I right? Can anyone confirm this?
that’s what I found on the internet but to double check I have sent an email to the Georgian embassy in Berlin asking about the situation for Egyptians . if the got late in replay will pass by them this week , will keep u all updated with this issue
Carpooling,Public Transport in Tbilisi, Egyptians in Tbilisi
On Carpooling/ridesharing
This does not exist for sure in Georgia. Carsharing etc. is much more complicated than other forms of sharing/pooling, as you need to clarify a lot of security issues to clarify - esp to ensure that security pays in case of an accident even if the cardriver was not the carowner. I don’t think this clarification/business model is feasible (yet) for small countries like Georgia. But we had meeting on collaboration in sharing in another group and are interested to introduce/test other sharing platforms, e.g. on tool sharing, skil sharing - in Georgia. Any experience on introducing such platforms in developing countries is welcome.
On public transport in Tbilisi: once in Tbilisi, you can pay Metro, busses and minibusses with a metrocard available e.g. at any Metro station. You can find your way from a to b with public transport via
On Egyptians in Tbilisi: this is not directly transport-related, but you might be interested in the fact that thousand of Egyptians have recently migrated to Georgia http://www.eurasianet.org/node/67102You can fin& contact them on fb, Facebook - maybe some of them would be willing help participants from Egypt with accomodation etc.?
ok so not here to promote carpooling, but merely to inform that the upcoming version of our app (kartag.com) will have universal locations and thus be usable also in Georgia/Armenia, etc. in addition to @Anna’s group.
Its about carpooling with Facebook connections - so no issue of trust or it is solved as much as it can be solved - and so people travelling from armenia or by land from anywhere can indeed use to coordinate and ride with each other.
For the participants coming from Armenia, we don’t need any visa, just a valid passport, and what about transportation, I can share it on my Carpool group, because we had experience of sharing a car from Yerevan to Tbilisi.
Anna thanks! would you then post a call on the facebook group?
Ideally you guys should be arriving on the 23rd or 24th of June and going back on the 26th. We still don’t know how many Armenians will come, an estimate is around 10.
Even if we get few offers or only for one way it still helps as it lowers the cost.
When’s the best time to post it? Is it too soon now?
Dear Noemi, I can share it even now, but I guess it will be more proper to do it a bit later, in order to be more concrete. And if possible i would like to have the contacts of people from Armenia, It will be much easier
In my head things are still fuzzy about the June event in Tbilisi.
Who is going/participating in the event? Is there a criteria? How does the process of participation work? Who takes care of organizational issues?
Perhaps i missed some discussions - there are many thread posts about this event here - but just to clarify. I might be at that period of time in the region so just asking to understand.
Hi @2mavin, thanks for bringing it up, as a matter of fact we’re working to set up an overview of the event here: /t/futurespotters-event/410
Re: who is participating - anyone who wishes to, but funding is limited so we’re inviting most active community members on a rolling basis via email. I’d sent you one, check please ?
