All our Caucasus & nature guides for Georgia, in one place.
Behind the beach resorts of the Black Sea coast there is a road climbing inland past waterfalls, arched stone bridges and villages of wooden houses, and almost nobody on the beach knows it is there.
A single track gravel road over a high pass, open for a few months a year, with no barriers and a reputation that precedes it. Here is what it actually involves.
How to visit Kazbegi and the iconic Gergeti Trinity Church: the drive up the Georgian Military Highway, the hike to the church, the best viewpoints, hiking trails and where to stay in Stepantsminda.
Tusheti, Khevsureti, Racha and a semi desert on the Azerbaijani border. Four regions that take real effort and are the reason people come back.
A lit cave system you walk through and leave by boat, two canyons with a cliff walkway and a rowing trip, and a city with a UNESCO monastery above it.
A park where you drink warm mineral water out of a tap, one of the largest national parks in Europe above it, and a narrow gauge railway up to the pines.
Snow on the Caucasus, a capital with no visitors in it, hot sulfur water, long lunches, and mountain roads that shut without asking.
One is high, treeless and built for off piste. The other is lower, wooded and built for families. They are not competing for the same skier.
A fortress on a reservoir, a Soviet mosaic on a cliff edge, a ski resort at the pass and a church on a hill under a five thousand metre peak.
A medieval tower region under the highest peaks in the Caucasus, reached by a long road along a reservoir, and a village that claims to be the highest in Europe.