Tbilisi Trip Overview
Kakheti has always been the visit card of Georgia due to its unique flavor and enormous historical importance. Best known for wide varieties of wine, Kakheti offers more to be astonished. This one-day tour includes top traveling destinations for everyone who wishes to find historical and cultural heritage of Georgia, alongside natural miracles of South Caucasus. A comfy car and professional guide takes dear guests to old churches and fortress, lakes and wineries where they are able to taste wine made with oldest wine-making traditions in the cradle of wine-making. What makes tour more special? The chance to try super delicious Georgian cuisine and even more, actually make dishes and snacks for themselves;
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Duration: 8 to 10 hours
Starts: Tbilisi, Georgia
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Wine Tasting & Winery Tours
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Kakheti has always been the visit card of Georgia due to its unique flavor and enormous historical importance. Best known for wide varieties of wine, Kakheti offers more to be astonished. This one-day tour includes top traveling destinations for everyone who wishes to find historical and cultural heritage of Georgia, alongside natural miracles of South Caucasus. A comfy car and professional guide takes dear guests to old churches and fortress, lakes and wineries where they are able to taste wine made with oldest wine-making traditions in the cradle of wine-making. What makes tour more special? The chance to try super delicious Georgian cuisine and even more, actually make dishes and snacks for themselves;
Pick up from your place of stay in Tbilisi.Your first destination “Batonis Tsikhe” in Telavi – is considered to be the best preserved medieval royal palace in Georgia. Built by King Archil in 1667-1675, it was the residence of Kakhetian kings during the 17th and 18th centuries. The building was expanded in the second half of the 18th century by King Erekle II, also known as The Little Kakhetian.
Gremi Monastery Complex (fortress) – the royal citadel and the church of the Archangels – in Kakheti, Georgia. Church complex is located on a hill and composed of the Church of the Archangels Michaels and Gabriel itself, a three-story castle, a bell tower and a wine cellar. It is encircled by a wall secured by embrasures, turrets and towers. Remains of the secret tunnel leading to the Intsobi River have also survived. Its design marries traditional Georgian masonry with a local interpretation of the contemporary Iranian architectural taste.
Ilia Lake – handmade lake in the north of Kakheti, Alazani valley, near town Kvareli. Tourists often visit the lake during Kakheti tour, to have some rest, locals come here to spend whole day near water, and rest. Ilia lake resort is located at the foothills of the southern slopes of Caucasian mountains. Surrounded by a forest of centuries-old trees, the hotel grounds open to the lake feeding on the Bursa da Chagurgula river, and overlook the boundless Alazani valley.
Khareba Winery Tunnel – 7,7 Kilometers tunnel length carved into the rock, filled with the best aging wines of Winery Khareba. This touristic attraction offers the opportunity of tasting more than 30 varieties of Winery Khareba’s best wines and participation in the cultural activities, such as: Chacha distillation process, Georgian bread baking, Churchkhela making, grilling meat, harvesting and pressing grapes in Satsnakheli.
The tour includes rebound to the accommodation after the trip.
