Journey in Turkey - Trip and Travel Guide for Bazgiret

East Black Sea Trip Terrifying in the beginning but amazing at the end.
3-13 January 2008
......... 4th – 5th days
The trip is getting harder. We are now in Bazgiret (Madenkoy). A very talented photographer Suleyman İnal from Artvin brought us here. He will join to our team from now on. He visits these mountain villages for the last ten years. He will be a great help to us.

Bazgiret is in Savsat (a town of Artvin). It is a village which mostly Georgian people live in. It’s located in a very high and upright place. The house that we were gonna stay was in the top hill of the village. To walk there took about an hour. There is no technology whatsoever except for the TV. The cell phones are not working. Their days are just about taking woods to their home with sleds pulled by cows, taking potatoes from the ground and watching TV by the stove. There are only potatoes and cheese to eat. Even though they live a very hard life, people are very fun and show hospitality. They like the accordion play, they have one player in the village. We had him play in front of a house and people started to dance. So cute! :)

While we walk in the village, everybody invites us to have warm milk. To be honest, I hate milk but here it was very tasty. I couldn’t help but drinking 2-3 cups in a day. It’s a very hard place to live. It has almost nothing that we cannot afford not to have in the city. The restroom is located in the outside, the weather is freezing, cell phones are out of the area etc. But they have one thing that most of us don’t have in the city: HAPPINESS! :)

It was hard to walk in the village because of the snow; it was almost 1 meter high. Every three step, I fell down. I was the only lady in the team during that two days, it was hard to keep up with men. Not to mention the dogs. I cannot be around with dogs and they had two big one in the village. Thanks to people, they tied the dogs for me. We had great photo shoots there: nice portraits, women with colorful ethnic dresses on the white snow…

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