{"id":17691,"date":"2023-10-25T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/staging\/?post_type=destination&#038;p=17691"},"modified":"2024-06-06T01:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:42:05","slug":"mount-kazbek","status":"publish","type":"destination","link":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/destination\/mount-kazbek\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Kazbek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.mapbox.com\/styles\/v1\/visitsilkroad\/clvl3cel701dq01phev10aq9m\/static\/pin-s+ff0000(44.51465510431475,42.69758457124034)\/44.51465510431475,42.69758457124034,12.5,0\/725x300?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoidmlzaXRzaWxrcm9hZCIsImEiOiJjbHV2YWEzbDMwMWRvMmpvYXd1NzRkNDcwIn0.iA4-BEz1MfIrSQRk3uxVkw\">\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Getting There<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Treks to Mount Kazbek start and finish in Stepantsminda, close to the Gergeti Trinity Church. By bus or car, it takes just under three hours to get here from Tbilisi, and much of the drive is along the Georgian Military Highway, which was described by <em>Baedecker\u2019s<\/em> as \u201cone of the most beautiful mountain roads in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to Expect<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Mount Kazbek is probably the only mountain in Europe where you can climb to 5,000m without having technical climbing skills. This makes it very popular amongst amateur mountaineers. You do need to allow time to acclimatise to the altitude, though, and in total the trek takes five days to reach the summit and then return to Stepantsminda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class='pixels-photo'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/500px.com\/photo\/178735575\/kazbek-by-dmitrij-bogdanov\" alt=\"Kazbek by \u0414\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0439 \u0411\u043e\u0433\u0434\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432 on 500px.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n  <img src='https:\/\/drscdn.500px.org\/photo\/178735575\/m%3D900\/v2?sig=7dc23ff0add997d55f61914e44960f877383b0d4b36538e5cf658e0aaf5cf29a' alt='Kazbek by \u0414\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0439 \u0411\u043e\u0433\u0434\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432 on 500px.com' \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/500px.com\/embed.js'><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Mount Kazbek (5,054m) lies on the border between Georgia and Russia in the Caucasus Mountains. It overlooks the Darial Gorge, historically one of only two available routes for invading armies to cross the mountain range. Each generation of rulers added their own layer of fortifications to defend this strategic location, and some historians believe this was the place described by the Roman historian Flavius Josephus as the Gates of Alexander, though the fortifications are of a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Kazbek beckons amateur mountaineers with the rare chance to summit a 5,000m peak in Europe without technical climbing skills. Trek through alpine meadows in the Caucasus Mountains along an ancient trade route to reach the summit in 5 days from Stepantsminda. Marvel at mountain fortifications built over centuries to defend the strategic Darial Gorge pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17690,"parent":0,"template":"","destination_type":[17],"location":[20,113],"site_type":[166],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-17691","destination","type-destination","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","destination_type-site","location-georgia","location-mtskheta-mtianeti","site_type-nature-eco-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/17691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/destination"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/17691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20138,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/17691\/revisions\/20138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"destination_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination_type?post=17691"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=17691"},{"taxonomy":"site_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site_type?post=17691"},{"taxonomy":"featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured?post=17691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}