EESTEC Magazine Vol 33 2013/2 | Page 49

Observer Kaiserslautern Probably the most associated with football, Kaiserslautern is a city in southwest Germany and is home to almost 100,000 people. Around 50,000 Americans inhabit the city and it’s surrounding as NATO military personnel. This is a very interesting city with its incredible mixture of cultures. Eating Turkish, Indian or Chinese food in a typical German town while having people all around speaking English is a common thing. The Technical University Kaiserslautern, the technical college and the numerous research institutions (Fraunhofer Institutes for Experimental Software Engineering, Institute for Industrial Mathematics, the German Research Center for Arti?cial Intelligence, the Institute for Composite Materials, Max Planck Institute...) contribute to the good reputation of the business location Kaiserslautern. To see: - Japanese Garden (A piece of the Far East is artistically designed, a harmony of light and shadows, plants and stones, water and paths.) - Humberg Tower and Palatinate Forest (Distinguished by the UNESCO as a biosphere reservation, the largest contiguous forest in Germany with 12,000 km long network of trails!) - The Imperial Palace, the Casimir Castle tunnels and Emperor's Fountain - Dinosaurs garden - Fritz Walter Stadium rebuilt of?cially on September 16th, 2012 after heavy damage it had taken ages ago and looks really astonishing right now. After Bagrati Cathedral – visiting Sataplia and Prometheus caves would be awesome. The only word that comes to my mind for describing these places is – Gorgeous!!! Next thing you will de?nitely see here is The Gelati Monastery. For a long time it was one of the main cultural and intellectual centers in Georgia. Finally our guest will visit a breathtakingly beautiful Svaneti. Here you are going to see an awesome mix of old, traditional and modern culture and architecture. Also you will de?nitely love our traditional food called “Khinkali” and native drinks like beer and “chacha”. Observer Kutaisi Lyrics of one old Georgian song say -“It’s so easy to see Kutaisi and so hard to forget it…” Kutaisi was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Colchis. Archeological evidence indicates that the city functioned as the capital of the kingdom of Colchis as early as the second millennium BC. From 978 to 1122 CE, Kutaisi was the capital of the United Kingdom of Georgia, and from the 15th century until 1810, it was the capital of the Imeretian Kingdom. Nowadays Kutaisi is the Parliamentary city of Georgia. So the very ?rst place which EESTEC-ers are going to visit is Kutaisi itself and its inner infrastructure. The Cathedral of the Dormition, or the Kutaisi Cathedral, more commonly known as Bagrati Cathedral; it is the 11th-century cathedral church in the city of Kutaisi. The cathedral was 49 You have such a great deal of enjoyment and fun awaiting here in Georgia and especially in Kutaisi. We are waiting for you…