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.
Our guides
Everything you need to know about Georgia, sorted by topic, from Tbilisi and the Caucasus mountains to the wine country and the ancient monasteries.
Trip planning
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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.
Tbilisi
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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
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 16 October 2026
Tbilisi Guide: Old Town, Sulfur Baths, Wine Bars and Fabrika
The complete guide to Tbilisi: the cobbled old town, the sulphur baths of Abanotubani, natural-wine bars, the Fabrika hub, viewpoints and day trips.
Updated 16 October 2026
Where to Stay in Tbilisi, Neighbourhood by Neighbourhood
Where to stay in Tbilisi: the Old Town versus Sololaki and Vera, why the hill streets are steeper than they look, and how to pick the right base.
Updated 15 October 2026
Fabrika: The Soviet Sewing Factory That Became Tbilisi's Living Room
A derelict textile plant across the river, now a hostel, a courtyard, a dozen small businesses and the place the young half of the city arranges to meet.
Updated 15 October 2026
Shopping in Tbilisi: A Flea Market Under a Bridge and Wine Worth Carrying Home
Soviet cameras and cavalry medals at the Dry Bridge, churchkhela by the metre, amber wine at a third of export prices, and a serious young design scene.
Updated 15 October 2026
The Sulfur Baths of Tbilisi: The Reason the City Is Here
Brick domes rising out of a hillside above hot sulfur springs, private rooms by the hour, and a scrub that removes a layer of you.
Updated 17 August 2026
Jewish Heritage in Georgia
One of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, a record of coexistence Georgians are proud of, and synagogues in places you would not think to look.
Updated 4 February 2026
Tbilisi Nightlife: Wine Bars, Warehouse Techno and a City That Starts Late
A capital where a natural wine bar, a Soviet factory courtyard and one of the most serious techno clubs in Europe are within twenty minutes of each other.
Caucasus & nature
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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
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 18 October 2026
Racha and Khvanchkara: Georgia's Other Wine Region
Georgia's second wine appellation makes a naturally semi-sweet red in the mountains north of Kutaisi, and almost no visitor goes. What to know first.
Updated 16 October 2026
Tbilisi to Kazbegi: The Most Driven Road in Georgia
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.
Updated 16 October 2026
Svaneti: Stone Towers, High Villages and a Long Road In
A remote mountain province with defensive towers a thousand years old, some of the best trekking in the Caucasus, and a drive that is half the story.
Updated 15 October 2026
Kazbegi and Gergeti Trinity Church: The Complete Guide
How to visit Kazbegi and the Gergeti Trinity Church: the drive up the Georgian Military Highway, the hike to the church, viewpoints and where to stay.
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 16 September 2026
Where to Stay in Kazbegi: Village, View or Valley
The point of sleeping in Kazbegi is waking up to the mountain. Which part of town has the view, what a guesthouse includes, and what closes in winter.
Updated 17 August 2026
The Goderdzi Pass and the Adjara Mountains
Behind the Black Sea beach resorts a road climbs inland past waterfalls, arched stone bridges and villages of wooden houses that few beachgoers know about.
Updated 17 August 2026
The Abano Pass: Driving the Road to Tusheti
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. What it actually involves.
Updated 17 May 2026
Off the Beaten Path in Georgia: Where to Go After the Obvious
Tusheti, Khevsureti, Racha and a semi desert on the Azerbaijani border. Four regions that take real effort and are the reason people come back.
Updated 5 May 2026
Prometheus Cave and the Canyons: Georgia's Wet, Green West
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.
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 5 April 2026
Driving to Svaneti: Stone Towers, One Road and No Signal
A medieval tower region under the highest peaks in the Caucasus, reached by a long road along a reservoir, and a village claiming to be Europe's highest.
Wine & cuisine
See the category Updated 18 October 2026
Racha and Khvanchkara: Georgia's Other Wine Region
Georgia's second wine appellation makes a naturally semi-sweet red in the mountains north of Kutaisi, and almost no visitor goes. What to know first.
Updated 16 October 2026
Vegetarian in Georgia: Easier Than Anybody Warns You
Pkhali, lobio, aubergine rolls and more. Learn the six dish names to order, why to ask for fasting dishes if you are vegan, and which traps to avoid.
Updated 15 October 2026
Georgian Food Guide: Khachapuri, Khinkali and the Supra
A hungry traveller's guide to Georgian food: the many khachapuri cheese breads, how to eat khinkali dumplings, the supra feast and its toasts, and drinks.
Updated 15 October 2026
The Khachapuri Map: Which Cheese Bread Belongs Where
Imeruli, Megruli, Adjaruli, Guruli, Ossuri and Penovani explained: what each khachapuri is, where it comes from and which to order from a bakery.
Updated 30 September 2026
The Supra: How a Georgian Feast Actually Works
A long table, a toastmaster who runs the evening, and a sequence of toasts that is not small talk. What happens at a Georgian supra and how to take part.
Updated 6 September 2026
Sighnaghi: The Wine Country Town on a Ridge
A restored hill town above the Alazani valley with a defensive wall you can walk, the Caucasus on the horizon, and wineries in every direction below it.
Updated 17 August 2026
Rtveli: Joining the Georgian Grape Harvest
For a few weeks in autumn the wine country stops being a tasting room and becomes work, and visitors who turn up at the right moment get handed a bucket.
Updated 28 July 2026
Wine Touring in Kakheti, How to Plan It
Planning wine touring in Kakheti, Georgia? Here is how to choose a base, drive or hire a driver, and structure tastings across the qvevri wine country.
Updated 15 June 2026
Kakheti Wine Region: Qvevri Wine, Sighnaghi and Cellars
A guide to Kakheti, Georgia's wine cradle: the 8,000-year qvevri method, amber wines, the hill town of Sighnaghi, the best cellars and wineries.
Updated 10 June 2026
Natural Wine in Georgia: The Clay Pot Method the World Copied
Wine fermented in vessels buried in the ground, skins and all, for around eight thousand years. What amber wine is and where to drink the serious version.
Updated 23 May 2026
How to Eat Khinkali Without Embarrassing Yourself
A twisted dumpling full of hot broth, eaten by hand, with a stalk you leave on the plate. There is a correct method and everybody notices if you miss it.
Nightlife & bars
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See the category 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 15 October 2026
The Sulfur Baths of Tbilisi: The Reason the City Is Here
Brick domes rising out of a hillside above hot sulfur springs, private rooms by the hour, and a scrub that removes a layer of you.
Updated 30 September 2026
The Supra: How a Georgian Feast Actually Works
A long table, a toastmaster who runs the evening, and a sequence of toasts that is not small talk. What happens at a Georgian supra and how to take part.
Updated 13 September 2026
Uplistsikhe and Vardzia: Two Cities Cut Into Rock
A pagan settlement carved from stone and a monastery of hundreds of rooms in a cliff face: how Uplistsikhe and Vardzia differ and which to pick.
Updated 6 September 2026
Sighnaghi: The Wine Country Town on a Ridge
A restored hill town above the Alazani valley with a defensive wall you can walk, the Caucasus on the horizon, and wineries in every direction below it.
Updated 30 August 2026
Davit Gareja: A Monastery Carved Into a Desert Ridge
Cells cut into rock on a semi desert ridge two hours from Tbilisi, with painted caves above and a contested border along the top. What to know first.
Updated 23 August 2026
Kutaisi: The Budget Airline Gateway Worth Staying In
Most visitors land at Kutaisi and leave within the hour. The city has two of the finest monasteries in Georgia, a cave system nearby, and almost no crowds.
Updated 17 August 2026
Rtveli: Joining the Georgian Grape Harvest
For a few weeks in autumn the wine country stops being a tasting room and becomes work, and visitors who turn up at the right moment get handed a bucket.
Updated 17 August 2026
Reading Georgian: The Alphabet and the Words That Help
A script that looks like nothing else, a language related to nothing you know, and about six words that change how a fortnight goes.
Updated 17 August 2026
Jewish Heritage in Georgia
One of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, a record of coexistence Georgians are proud of, and synagogues in places you would not think to look.
Updated 17 May 2026
Off the Beaten Path in Georgia: Where to Go After the Obvious
Tusheti, Khevsureti, Racha and a semi desert on the Azerbaijani border. Four regions that take real effort and are the reason people come back.
Updated 11 May 2026
Vardzia: A City Carved Into a Cliff
Hundreds of chambers cut into a southern Georgian cliff in the twelfth century, with a frescoed church and an earthquake that took the front wall off.
Batumi & the Black Sea
See the category 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.
Updated 16 October 2026
Black Sea Beaches Beyond Batumi
The coast north of the city is quieter, cheaper and where Georgian families actually go, including a stretch of black magnetic sand people travel for.
Updated 27 September 2026
Where to Stay in Batumi: Seafront, Old Town or Out of Town
Batumi is a Black Sea city with casino towers, a nineteenth century old town and a long pebble beach, and each wants something different from your hotel.
Updated 17 August 2026
The Goderdzi Pass and the Adjara Mountains
Behind the Black Sea beach resorts a road climbs inland past waterfalls, arched stone bridges and villages of wooden houses that few beachgoers know about.
Updated 2 August 2026
Batumi Beaches and the Black Sea Coast
What the Black Sea coast near Batumi is really like: pebble beaches, quieter Gonio and Kvariati, swimming season, water temperature and family spots.
Updated 18 March 2026
Batumi and the Black Sea Coast: The Complete Guide
Batumi and Georgia's Black Sea coast: the palm-lined boulevard, the quirky skyline, pebble beaches, Adjaran khachapuri, the botanical garden and day trips.
Where to stay
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Where to Stay in Tbilisi, Neighbourhood by Neighbourhood
Where to stay in Tbilisi: the Old Town versus Sololaki and Vera, why the hill streets are steeper than they look, and how to pick the right base.
Updated 15 October 2026
Fabrika: The Soviet Sewing Factory That Became Tbilisi's Living Room
A derelict textile plant across the river, now a hostel, a courtyard, a dozen small businesses and the place the young half of the city arranges to meet.
Updated 27 September 2026
Where to Stay in Batumi: Seafront, Old Town or Out of Town
Batumi is a Black Sea city with casino towers, a nineteenth century old town and a long pebble beach, and each wants something different from your hotel.
Updated 16 September 2026
Where to Stay in Kazbegi: Village, View or Valley
The point of sleeping in Kazbegi is waking up to the mountain. Which part of town has the view, what a guesthouse includes, and what closes in winter.
Updated 23 August 2026
Kutaisi: The Budget Airline Gateway Worth Staying In
Most visitors land at Kutaisi and leave within the hour. The city has two of the finest monasteries in Georgia, a cave system nearby, and almost no crowds.
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.
Getting around
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Updated 18 October 2026
Getting from Tbilisi Airport into the City
A train, a bus, an app taxi and a queue of drivers quoting four times the going rate. Which to take at which hour, and the one arrival that catches people.
Updated 16 October 2026
Driving in Georgia, an Honest Assessment
Driving in Georgia honestly: what the roads are like, why mountain routes need a 4x4 and a season check, licence and insurance questions, and drivers.
Updated 16 October 2026
The Marshrutka: How Georgia Actually Gets Around
A minibus that leaves when it is full, has no printed timetable, and reaches almost everywhere. How to find one, stop one, and when to pay for a car.
Updated 16 October 2026
Tbilisi to Kazbegi: The Most Driven Road in Georgia
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.
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 17 August 2026
The Abano Pass: Driving the Road to Tusheti
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. What it actually involves.
Updated 5 April 2026
Driving to Svaneti: Stone Towers, One Road and No Signal
A medieval tower region under the highest peaks in the Caucasus, reached by a long road along a reservoir, and a village claiming to be Europe's highest.
Updated 30 March 2026
Car Rental in Georgia: The Small Print Is the Whole Story
A hire car opens up the country, and the agreement decides whether you can legally use it. Excess, unpaved road clauses and why four wheel drive matters.
Money & practical
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Updated 18 October 2026
Georgia on a Budget, What Things Really Cost
What things really cost in Georgia on a budget: guesthouse nights, restaurant meals, wine, marshrutka rides, hired drivers, and Batumi's summer prices.
Updated 18 October 2026
Travel Insurance for Georgia: The Clauses That Actually Matter Here
Mountain roads, hiking above three thousand metres, ski off piste and hire car excess. Georgia breaks travel policies in specific, predictable ways.
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 16 October 2026
Emergency Numbers and Medical Help in Georgia
Emergency help in Georgia: the single number for police, fire and ambulance, what to do in the mountains where help is far, and key insurance clauses.
Updated 16 October 2026
Money in Georgia: The Lari, Cards, and Where Cash Still Rules
Cards work in the cities and stop working the moment you leave them. What to carry, where to change money and the one screen to always say no to.
Updated 15 October 2026
Shopping in Tbilisi: A Flea Market Under a Bridge and Wine Worth Carrying Home
Soviet cameras and cavalry medals at the Dry Bridge, churchkhela by the metre, amber wine at a third of export prices, and a serious young design scene.
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 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
Reading Georgian: The Alphabet and the Words That Help
A script that looks like nothing else, a language related to nothing you know, and about six words that change how a fortnight goes.
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.
Ready-made itineraries
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Updated 18 October 2026
Five Days on Snow in Georgia: Gudauri, Bakuriani and a Hot Bath
A five-day Georgian ski trip: two days at Gudauri, a transfer day past Ananuri and Mtskheta, gentler Bakuriani and the Tbilisi sulphur baths to finish.
Updated 18 October 2026
Five Days in the Georgian South: Borjomi, Vardzia and the High Lakes
A five-day route through Samtskhe Javakheti: Borjomi mineral water park, the Bakuriani railway, Rabati fortress, Vardzia, Khertvisi and Lake Paravani.
Updated 16 October 2026
Five Days in Adjara: Batumi and the Green Mountains Above It
A five-day Adjara route: Batumi boulevard and botanical garden, the arched bridges of the Machakhela valley, Mtirala rainforest and Goderdzi villages.
Updated 15 October 2026
One Week in Georgia, a Complete Itinerary
A realistic one week Georgia itinerary covering Tbilisi, Mtskheta, Kazbegi, Kakheti wine country and the drive west, with honest driving times.
Updated 23 September 2026
Three Days in Georgia: The Version That Actually Fits
Three days is enough for Tbilisi and one thing outside it, and not enough for both the mountains and the wine country. Which to pick and what it costs you.
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 17 August 2026
Five Days in Georgia With Children
A five-day family route with short drives: Tbilisi by cable car, Mtskheta, the Prometheus cave, a boat through the Martvili canyon and black sand at Ureki.
Updated 17 August 2026
Five Days in Imereti: Kutaisi, Canyons and Cave Cities
A five-day route around Kutaisi: the Gelati and Motsameta monasteries, Prometheus cave, boats in the Martvili canyon, the Okatse walkway and Uplistsikhe.
Updated 17 August 2026
Five Days in Kakheti: Georgian Wine at the Source
A five-day route through Georgia wine country: Telavi, qvevri cellars and natural wine, walled Sighnaghi, and the monasteries at Alaverdi and Bodbe.
Updated 17 August 2026
Five Days in Kazbegi and the Georgian Military Highway
A five-day route up the old road to Russia: Ananuri, the pass above Gudauri, Gergeti Trinity under Mount Kazbek, the Truso valley and Juta.
Updated 17 August 2026
Five Days in Svaneti: Mestia, Ushguli and the High Caucasus
A five-day route into upper Svaneti: tower houses at Mestia, the Chalaadi glacier, the medieval towers of Ushguli under Shkhara and the Enguri reservoir.
Updated 17 August 2026
Five Days in Tbilisi: The Capital and What Sits Around It
A five-day Tbilisi itinerary from one base: the old town and sulphur baths, Fabrika courtyards, Mtskheta and Jvari, Uplistsikhe and the flea market.
Updated 17 August 2026
Five Days in Tusheti: Over the Abano Pass
A five-day trip into the highest corner of Georgia: the Abano pass road, Omalo, slate roofed Dartlo, the Pirikiti valley and shepherd cheese.
Updated 28 July 2026
Ten Days in Georgia, the Fuller Route
Ten days in Georgia lets you add the west to the classic loop. The fuller route through Tbilisi, Kazbegi, Kakheti and Kutaisi, with long drives mapped.
Updated 19 July 2026
10 Days in Georgia, Day by Day: Tbilisi, Kazbegi, Kakheti and Batumi
A ready-made 10-day Georgia itinerary: Tbilisi and its old town, Kazbegi up the Military Highway, Kakheti wine country and Batumi on the Black Sea coast.
Common questions
How many Georgia guides are on the site?
The site has 78 guides covering all of Georgia: Tbilisi, the Caucasus mountains (Kazbegi, Svaneti), the Kakheti wine region, Batumi and the Black Sea, monasteries, food and practical info. All are updated regularly.
Which guide should I start planning with?
Start with the general planning guide and "when to visit Georgia", then move on to the Tbilisi guide, the Caucasus mountains and wine region guides, and the ready-made itinerary that matches how many days you have.
Should I rent a car for a trip in Georgia?
For full flexibility yes, especially for the Caucasus mountains and the wine country. The mountain roads are demanding, so many travellers choose a private driver or organised transfers. Between the cities there are cheap marshrutkas (minibuses) too. Each guide spells out the options.
Why is Georgia such a popular destination?
Short flights, no visa for most visitors, low prices, dramatic mountain scenery, ancient wine and excellent food, and warm hospitality. That mix has made Georgia one of the hottest destinations, for a short break and a family trip alike.