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Agstafa

The city of Agstafa has been established 90 years ago as a railway junction.

The Red Bridge separates it from Republic of Georgia. Trains from there go to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. It is silent, very cozy small town with convenient hotels and restaurants of national cuisine. From there tourists go for 20 km on picnics to the famous wonderful Galam-chay spring. There are plenty of picturesque places there: among mountains and woods, water-meadows of the rivers, on the coast of Dzhandar-gel Lake and especially in Garayazy reserve, which is rich by tugai thickets.

Travelers have a good chance to study the most ancient monu-ments of the world value. These are settlements of Bronze and Iron Ages near the local villages of Ashagy Ghoychaly, Daghkasaman and others, and in vicinities of the ullage Kechasker there have * been revealed settlements of the Stone Age. Jugs, necklaces, vases and bowls found in excavations, are exhibited in the local museum.

Climate in this'area is moderate, therefore excursions there do not stop even in wintertime. Tourists visit towers of the mosques of XVII and XIX centuries, get acquainted with art of local "ashugs" (bards), get original carpets.