Updated 18 October 2026
Batumi or Tbilisi, Which Georgian City Is for You
Batumi or Tbilisi? An honest comparison of Georgia's two big cities, covering food, sea, costs, weather by season and how to do both in one trip.
Trip planning
All our Trip planning guides for Georgia, in one place.
20 guides: Trip planning
Updated 18 October 2026
Borjomi and Bakuriani: A Spa Town, a Ski Town and the Train Between Them
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 that is due back in service.
Updated 18 October 2026
Georgia Visa and Entry Rules, Passport by Passport
Georgia's entry rules explained: why the visa policy is one of the most generous anywhere, what to check for your passport, border questions and traps.
Updated 18 October 2026
Georgia with Kids: Cable Cars, Cave Cities and Very Long Drives
A cheap, welcoming country with a cable car in every city and food children actually like, set against mountain roads that take twice as long as you think.
Updated 18 October 2026
Gudauri or Bakuriani: Which Georgian Ski Resort
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.
Updated 16 October 2026
Tbilisi for Digital Nomads: Why People Come for Two Weeks and Stay Six Months
Cheap rent, fast internet, an unusually generous stay allowance for many passports, and a city small enough to know within a month.
Updated 16 October 2026
Best Time to Visit Georgia: A Month-by-Month Guide
When to visit the country of Georgia, season by season: spring and autumn sweet spots, mountain hiking windows, Batumi beach summer, ski season, harvest.
Updated 16 October 2026
Mtskheta: The Old Capital, Half an Hour from the New One
The town where Georgia became Christian, a cathedral holding the country's founding relic, and a sixth century church on a ridge above two rivers meeting.
Updated 16 October 2026
The Best Day Trips from Tbilisi
Almost everything in eastern Georgia is within a day's reach of the capital, so many visitors never change hotel. Some of it should not be done that way.
Updated 14 October 2026
What to Pack for Georgia: Mountains, Monasteries and the Black Sea
Georgia asks for a strange mix in one suitcase: hiking layers, something modest for a monastery, and beach kit for a pebble coast. A seasonal packing list.
Updated 11 October 2026
Is Georgia Safe? What Actually Goes Wrong, and What Does Not
Georgia has very low violent crime and real risks that are not crime: the roads, mountain weather, stray dogs and the occupied territories. A safety guide.
Updated 7 October 2026
Georgia Land Border Crossings: Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia
Four land neighbours, four different situations, including the Baku sleeper train that relaunched in 2026 and that most travellers cannot legally board.
Updated 4 October 2026
Hiking in Georgia: The Routes That Are Worth the Journey
Day walks and multi day treks across Kazbegi, Svaneti, Tusheti and the national parks, with the season each one needs and how hard they really are.
Updated 17 August 2026
Travelling Georgia Alone
One of the easier countries in the region to travel solo, and the parts that need thought are not the ones people ask about.
Updated 17 August 2026
Georgia or Armenia: Which One First
Two neighbouring Caucasus countries that get named in the same breath and are considerably less alike than the pairing suggests.
Updated 17 August 2026
Two Weeks in Georgia: What the Extra Week Buys
Ten days covers the headline sights. A fortnight is a different trip, and the difference is one remote region rather than four more towns.
Updated 22 June 2026
Romantic Georgia: A Town Called the City of Love and a Bath at Midnight
A hilltop town above a valley of vines, sulfur baths in a private room, a balcony over an old town and a cellar where somebody pours you their own wine.
Updated 23 April 2026
Georgia in Winter: Empty, Cheap and Half Closed
Snow on the Caucasus, a capital with no visitors in it, hot sulfur water, long lunches, and mountain roads that shut without asking.
Updated 18 March 2026
SIM Cards, eSIMs and Internet in Georgia
Cheap data, good city coverage, and mountain valleys with none at all. What to buy, where to buy it, and where the signal genuinely stops.
Updated 14 January 2026
First Time in Georgia: The Only Guide You Need
Planning your first trip to the country of Georgia? When to go, where to base yourself, the visa, the insurance required at the border, and getting around.