Tbilisi Trip Overview
These four days tour gives you an opportunity to visit the most beautiful places of western Georgia. You have a chance to visit canyons, palaces, monasteries, so lets explore Georgia together and remember that during this tour you will travel in medieval time with us.
Additional Info
Duration: 4 days
Starts: Tbilisi, Georgia
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Tbilisi, Georgia, Georgia
These four days tour gives you an opportunity to visit the most beautiful places of western Georgia. You have a chance to visit canyons, palaces, monasteries, so lets explore Georgia together and remember that during this tour you will travel in medieval time with us.
Itinerary
Day 1: Chiatura & Katskhi pillar
Stop At: Chiatura, Chiatura, Imereti Region
Chiatura is an industrial town founded in 1879. In Soviet Georgia, the town was a center of manganese mining. Present Chiatura attracts visitors who are interested in Soviet time industrial left-overs. To feel the past, you can ride communism-era cable cars still used by locals as means of transport. This transport system has dozen of operating rope way lines for passengers and two cargo lines for transporting manganese. Total length of the cable ways exceeds 6,000 meters.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Katskhi Pillar, Katskhi Georgia
The most notable site Katskhi Pillar located near Chiatura (13.4km) is one of the most popular tourist spots of the country and symbol of this region. There is one monk living in the Monastery above and women are disallowed to go up. It is approximately 40 metres high (surface 150 m2), and overlooks the small river valley of Katskhura. The church of St. Maximus the Confessor is located at the south-easternmost corner of the top surface of the Katskhi
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: “Overnight at . 3* hotel Sanapiro Kutaisi”
Day 2: Kutaisi full day tour
Stop At: Road to Gelati Monastery, Motsameta, Kutaisi 4600 Georgia
Founded in 1106 in the west of Georgia, the Monastery of Gelati is a masterpiece of the Golden Age of medieval Georgia, a period of political strength and economic growth between the 11th and 13th centuries. It is characterized by the facades of smoothly hewn large blocks, balanced proportions and blind arches for exterior decoration. The Gelati monastery, one of the largest medieval Orthodox monasteries, was also a centre of science and education and the Academy it housed was one of the most important centres of culture in ancient Georgia.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Motsameta Monastery, Tbilisi, Motsameta, Kutaisi 0172 Georgia
It is a small and very beautiful monastery with round turrets crowned with peaked tent-shaped domes. The monastery is standing above the rough Rioni River and is buried in coastal vegetation. According to the legend the monastery was constructed on the place where Muslim aggressors executed David and Konstantin Mkheidze, Georgian princes, who refused to accept Islam.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bagrati Cathedral, Bagrati Street, Kutaisi 4600 Georgia
Bagrati cathedral was built in 1003 bythe king Bagrat III, with a tall drum and pointed dome resting on four freestanding pillars. In 1692 a Turkish explosion brought down drum, dome and ceiling to leave the cathedral in a ruined state. It was fully renovated between 2009 and 2012, with a mix of old and new stone and a few steel sections.
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: “Overnight at . 3* hotel Sanapiro Kutaisi”
Day 3: Canyons & Caves
Stop At: Prometheus Cave, Kumistavi Georgia
It is located near the Georgian town of Tskhaltubo, 20 km away from Kutaisi in Imereti region in the West of the country. The cave was discovered in 1984 and was almost immediately developed as a show cave. Kumistavi is the biggest cave in Georgia. Although only one tenth is open for tourists, it takes about an hour to explore it. Inside there are underground lakes and rivers; rather high humidity and a lot of bats, which, however, do not bother tourists, as they fly very high.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Okatse Canyon, Village Gordi of Khoni Municipality, Zeda Gordi, Kutaisi 5900 Georgia
Okatse Canyon is a deep forested rift carved by the aqua waters of the Okatse River where fragments of rocky escarpment peeking through the dense forest. The newly built skywalk is the main attraction here and runs between the trees along the edge of the canyon culminating in a free hanging platform that juts out over the abyss. Definitely not something for those that are terrified of heights! From the car park, it’s a 2.5km or 40-minute mostly downhill walk to reach the canyon. The skywalk itself is 1km and takes around 20 to 30 minutes to see at a slow pace, stopping to take pictures and look out over the canyon along the way.
Duration: 2 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: “Overnight at . 3* hotel Sanapiro Kutaisi”
Day 4: Samegrelo
Stop At: Martvili Canyon, Martivili Georgia
Martvili is located in Samegrelo region, Western Georgia, 280km from Tbilisi. The Martvili Canyon is a natural wonder. It used to be a bath place for Georgian Nobles, Dadiani family. Now it represents a touristic site. People visit it to enjoy the scenery, its waterfalls and take a boat trip in the river with deep green color. Visitors can enjoy 300-meter boat tour on river Abasha and beautiful views of mountain river canyon.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Dadiani Palaces Historical and Architectural Museum, Zviad Gamsakhurdia St., 2, Zugdidi 2100 Georgia
Dadiani Palaces Historical and Architectural Museum in Zugdidi, West Georgia, Samegrelo region, was established in 1921 and contains 41000 items. The museum complex includes: palaces of the Samegrelo queen Ekaterine Chavchavadze-Dadiani and Prince Niko Dadiani, court church, and the botanic garden. In 1850 Prince David Dadiani organized museum in the palace and displayed unique numismatic materials from the present day village Nokalakevi, the antique period town and Dadiani family collections of medieval European armor and weapons, ethnographic objects and fine art. Overnight at white hotel in Zugdidi and on the next day in the morning back to Tbilisi.
Duration: 2 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: “Overnight at . 3* White hotel Zugdidi”
