The locals call their Abkhazia Apsny - the country of the soul. Over time, everything changes, and now things are lousy with their soul, it is rotten. Now, instead of hospitality, you will have to face the bright sides of their savage medieval mentality, and this is LAZINESS, LACK OF CULTURE and...
In past soviet times, Sukhum Mountain, which they called the Funicular, was a landmark, the road upstairs began at the bottom with a colonnade, then a platform with a fountain, stairs framed by flowering rhododendrons, with a cafe and a viewing platform at the top.