A translation bureau for Trialeti - TARGMANEBI's service for a high-mountain settlement where the season decides everything. From spring to autumn the tourist flow picks up and with it the demand for texts - routes, rules, programmes; in winter we work more on family and project documents. In both periods the process is the same: we receive the material electronically, translate it, certify it and, if paper is needed, deliver it by courier on the Tsalka route. That is why at no stage do you have to travel to the city.
Trails, guides, safety
In mountain tourism a text is directly tied to safety - which is why we handle this material with particular care. The main groups:
Route description
- Stages, distances and elevation gain and loss
- Landmarks, passes and water sources
- Difficulty levels and the preparation required
- Text on maps, waymarks and signposts
- Seasonal restrictions and weather advice
Safety
- Rules of conduct in the mountains and emergency instructions
- Contact details and rescue service numbers
- Mandatory equipment lists
- Warnings on dealing with livestock and dogs
- Insurance and liability terms
Services
- Descriptions of shelters and family guesthouses
- Guide service contracts and rates
- Programmes and daily schedules for groups
- Menus, meal and transport terms
- Correspondence with tour operators and platforms
In a safety text we keep one strict rule: the sentence is short, the action is stated directly, and ambiguity is ruled out. A hiker reading the sheet in the wind should not have to wonder what it means. In a route description, distances, elevations and time estimates are checked separately, and place names are written in their established form alongside the original - so that the reader finds the same name on the map and on the waymark.
Tourism and community projects
Tourism development in Trialeti relies largely on projects - waymarking routes, setting up shelters, training local guides and preparing family guesthouses, promoting local produce. Such initiatives come with grant applications, budgets, training materials, monitoring reports and memoranda, which are usually written in English. We translate this documentation and keep the donor's structure, because the assessment is built on exactly that framework. After a project ends, the results often need translating for local people - what has changed, what new service exists, how they can use it. We prepare these texts separately, in plain language, because the real value of a project shows when the local community actually uses it.
Pastures, livestock, produce
The Trialeti plateau is a traditional zone for sheep and cattle farming, where seasonal moving of herds between pastures is still part of life. Our orders in this field mostly concern veterinary and food documents: animal registration and movement records, veterinary certificates, laboratory analyses, supply contracts, export documents. If a farm sends dairy products or meat abroad, the label and product description are added according to the destination country's requirements. On the import side, we translate instructions for veterinary drugs, vaccines and feed additives, where doses and withdrawal periods have to come across exactly. Pasture management projects, carried out with the support of international organisations, are a separate line of work.
Family papers and seasonal work
Families in a mountain settlement need the same papers as anywhere else, except that here everything has to be settled remotely. Most often these are documents linked to seasonal work - an invitation, an employment contract, health and criminal record certificates; then academic papers for students, medical documents, powers of attorney from relatives abroad and pension certificates. We advise anyone signing a foreign contract to read the Georgian version first: that is where the working hours, the pay terms, the cost of accommodation and the termination conditions are written. That translation costs far less than a later misunderstanding in a foreign country, where getting help is much harder.
A simple way to save time on such orders is to send all the papers at once: we handle one family's documents as a single case, fix the spelling of the names once, and the courier makes one trip. In the mountains, where every journey takes time, the difference is noticeable. Completed work stays in our database, so if you need an extra copy of the same document later, it does not have to be translated again.
Languages in orders from Trialeti
English is the most frequent language in Trialeti - hikers, platforms and donors all communicate in it. German and Polish come up with European travellers, Czech and French on group tours, Russian with visitors, old documents and regional trade, Greek in family papers, Turkish and Arabic in meat and produce markets. Also available: Italian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Dutch and Chinese.
How to order
Material or document
A photo or file by WhatsApp to 501 113 200, or to info@targmanebi.ge; a route description is best sent as a text file, together with the maps.
Who it is for
A foreign hiker, a tour operator, a donor or a veterinary service - that decides the style and whether certification is needed.
Translation and checking
A tourism text is done by a translator who works on style, veterinary and technical texts by a specialist; distances, doses and numbers are checked separately.
Delivery
The file by email as soon as it is finished, paper by courier to Trialeti or Tsalka, at a place convenient for you.
Price, deadlines and guarantee
Trialeti is served on the same terms as the capital, with the price by agreement once we see the document - nothing extra is added for a mountain settlement. A route description and a safety sheet are usually ready in two days, a set of guesthouse or guide materials in two to three days, a veterinary certificate with the bureau stamp the same or the next working day, a label and product description in two days, grant documentation in stages, a notarized personal document in two days, and a document with an apostille within the procedure's timeframe. Before the season starts we recommend preparing all recurring texts once - then during the season only the dates and prices change. Commercial terms and the content of personal documents stay confidential with us. The bureau's legal form is a sole trader - Mariam Zumadze, ID 30601010853; for organisations working on project funding, this means in practice that every expense passes into reporting backed by a proper document. If an error of ours is confirmed, it is corrected free of charge.
The season is starting and you need a route description or safety rules in a foreign language? Preparing a report for a donor? Planning to export your produce? Write to us from Trialeti - we will look at the text today and propose a plan for the work.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - translation in Trialeti
We have a route description in Georgian. How should it be prepared for foreigners?
The text has to be translated so that it reads naturally, while distances, elevations and time estimates stay unchanged and exact. We write place names in their established form with the original alongside, so that hikers find the same name on the map and on the waymark.
How is a safety instruction different from an ordinary text?
What matters in such a text is simplicity and clarity: a short sentence, a direct instruction, no ambiguity. The emergency section is set apart and has to be easy to find. We handle this material separately and simplify it where needed.
We are guides and want bilingual material to work with.
We prepare it in parallel columns - Georgian and the relevant foreign language on one sheet. This is very useful on the trail and makes communicating with guests easier. If you wish, we also add a short glossary of terms.
We are preparing sheep products for export. Where do we start?
With the veterinary and laboratory documents, then the supply contract and the label according to the destination country's requirements. Our stamp and signature are enough for the invoice and contract, while state certificates need notarization or an apostille, depending on what the recipient asks for.
A donor report has to go in English and the deadline is short.
In that case we work on the text in parts and hand it over gradually, so that you can fill in the rest in parallel. Tell us the exact deadline and we will build the schedule backwards from it, so that nothing piles up on the last day.
I am meeting a group and will need an interpreter. How do we arrange it?
By prior arrangement an interpreter travels to you and the fee is set per working day, taking travel and accommodation into account. For short meetings joining by phone is often enough. In both cases we need a short description of the topic and the terms in advance - a prepared interpreter gives a far better result.
Does the courier come to Trialeti?
Yes, on the Tsalka route - we will tell you the exact day when you order and can hand the documents over at a place convenient for you. You receive the electronic version as soon as the work is finished, without waiting.
Translation bureau in the other cities of Kvemo Kartli
Trialeti's neighbours are Tsalka and Bediani, to the north Manglisi and Tetritskaro, to the south Dmanisi, Kazreti and Bolnisi. Choose a settlement and you will see what we work on there.