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4 Days – East and South
Wine country, royal monasteries and a glass-bridge canyon.
Departure
Tbilisi
Duration
4 Days
Price from
€
Currency: Georgian Lari (GEL / ₾). Cards accepted in cities; cash useful in smaller towns.
SIM Cards: Available at the airport and in cities (Magti, Beeline, Cellfie). eSIM also offered.
Time Zone: GMT +4.
Visa: Many nationalities (EU, US, Canada, UK, etc.) enjoy visa-free entry for up to one year.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Sighnaghi sits on a hilltop ringed by a complete 18th-century wall: 23 towers and four kilometres of battlements you can actually walk. Below the pastel lanes and carved balconies, the Alazani Valley spreads out toward the snow wall of the Caucasus. The town's marriage house works around the clock, which is how Sighnaghi earned its nickname, the 'city of love'. Add nearby Bodbe Convent, resting place of St Nino, and you have Kakheti's most romantic stop.
Georgians have been making wine for at least 8,000 years, and in Kakheti the method has never changed: fermentation in qvevri, great clay vessels buried in the earth, now protected by UNESCO. Family cellars pour amber and ruby wines you will simply not taste anywhere else. Between tastings rise some of the country's greatest monuments: Alaverdi's soaring cathedral, fortified Gremi, hilltop Nekresi. Come hungry, because the Kakhetian table is Georgia's most generous.
At Dashbashi the Tsalka plateau suddenly tears open into a green canyon, and a diamond-shaped glass bridge, with a cafe suspended at its very centre, spans the void 240 metres across. Below, waterfalls slide over mossy basalt into a turquoise river, reachable by walking trails. The engineering is startling; the landscape more so. It is Georgia's newest wonder and already one of its most visited.
TOUR ITINERARY
DAY
1
Tbilisi city tour and old Mtskheta
The morning belongs to Tbilisi: the Old Town lanes, the cable-car ride up to Narikala fortress and the brick domes of the sulphur-bath district. In the afternoon we drive twenty minutes to Mtskheta, the country's ancient capital, to stand in UNESCO-listed Svetitskhoveli Cathedral and look down on the meeting of two rivers from the clifftop Jvari Monastery. It is a compact first day that spans fifteen centuries of Georgian history.
Overnight in:
Tbilisi
DAY
2
Sighnaghi, Bodbe, Nekresi and Telavi
Bodbe Convent and walled Sighnaghi open the day above the Alazani Valley; in the afternoon we climb to hilltop Nekresi, whose terraces survey the entire valley, and finish in Telavi beneath its 900-year-old plane tree. Qvevri wine accompanies the route. Overnight in Telavi.
Overnight in:
Telavi
DAY
3
Alaverdi, Gremi and return
We devote the morning to the upper Alazani Valley: the cathedral of Alaverdi rising almost fifty metres above the vines and the fortified hilltop church of Gremi, once capital of the Kakhetian kingdom. After a farewell tasting we cross the Gombori pass back to Tbilisi.
Overnight in:
Tbilisi
DAY
4
Dashbashi Canyon and Paravani
A change of scenery: the road climbs onto the volcanic Javakheti plateau, a windswept highland of mirror lakes and enormous skies. At Dashbashi Canyon a diamond-shaped glass bridge with a cafe suspended at its centre hangs over a deep green gorge, and walking trails drop towards the waterfall below. We pass Paravani, Georgia's largest lake, before returning to Tbilisi.
Overnight in:
Price Includes
• Professional licensed guide
• Comfortable air-conditioned transport
• Entrance fees as per itinerary
• Hotel pickup and drop-off
Price Doesn't Include
• Accommodation (unless stated)
• Lunches and dinners
• Personal expenses
• Travel insurance
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Tbilisi, 0190 Georgia
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