Useful information about Batumi and Georgia
Batumi
As in any city, in Batumi, in addition to a well-maintained and clean center, there are urban outskirts where everything is not so safe. Now Batumi is a real city of contrasts.
Next to fashionable hotels of world brands and modern new buildings are houses erected in the second half of the twentieth century. In the transition period of anarchy, many owners of apartments of the Soviet nine-story building and & laquo; Khrushchev’s & raquo; began to increase housing through unauthorized extensions. Therefore, in the city there is a sharp contrast between beautiful skyscrapers and terrible slums.
A similar situation is happening with the roads. Asphalt and paved streets in tourist areas and broken, without a hint of asphalt or other road surface, on the outskirts. It is especially difficult to walk on them after rains.
The most nonparably part of the city is the collective farm market and the adjacent territory. Residents of touristy, prosperous areas buy food in civilized modern supermarkets, and city markets are more like Mumbai or the slums of some other Asian city, but it is there that the local population buys food. It is cheaper and more environmentally friendly on the market.