KUTAISI - TBILISI - SIGNAGHI - GREMI - MTSKHETA - UPLISHIKHE — KUTAISI - PROMETEI CAVE
Tour Date: every Monday and Wednesday
1 day. Meeting at the airport of Kutaisi. Transfer to Tbilisi. City tour of the evening old city.
Meeting at the Airport (nameplate GEOMANDARIN), transfer to the hotel. Population.
Walking tour of old Tbilisi.
Tbilisi is the capital of Georgia, which has absorbed so many eras and cultures that even local residents don’t know all the mysteries and secrets that keep the labyrinths of this warm and beautiful city. Beautiful carved balconies, unique ceremonial, famous Tbilisi courtyards, this is all that the city is famous for.
During a walking tour with a professional guide, we will go up to the Narikala Fortress, see Tbilisi from a bird's eye view, visit the fig gorge and the famous sulfur baths complex, take a walk along the side streets of the famous Sharden region.
At the end of the tour we are waiting for a tasting of famous Georgian wines in one of the city’s maranis.
Visit Baths (additional charge)
Free evening in Tbilisi. Overnight in Tbilisi.
2 day. The homeland of winemaking - Kakheti
Breakfast
Kakheti, how much is there in this word! Several years ago, the whole world recognized that Georgia is the birthplace of wine.
We will begin our tour with a visit to the winery of KTW Corporation, one of the largest wine producers, where they will tell us what is the secret of the "Georgian" wine preparation technology. After the tour, a wine tasting awaits us.
We will make the next stop in the famous and once developed city of Gremi, which was completely destroyed by the brutal Iranian Shah Abbas. The Arkhangelsk temple and bell tower have survived and exist to this day, and it is this complex that is now called "Gremi Castle"
Next, we will invite you to a dinner in a peasant family, where a traditional table from the Kakheti mistress will be set for you (extra charge)
Next, we will visit the Bodbe Monastery, where the grave of St. Nino is located, which brought Christianity to Georgia in the 4th century.
The last point of our tour will be Sighnaghi - the city of Love. Sighnaghi is a small town in eastern Georgia, on a mountainside, in the historical region of Kakheti. The center of the historical and geographical area of Kiziki. Located on terraces connecting winding steep streets.
3 day. Mtskheta is the ancient capital of Georgia and the cave city of Uplistsikhe. Transfer to Kutaisi.
Breakfast.
"A few years ago,
Where, merging, they make noise
Hugging like two sisters
Jets of Aragva and Hens,
There was a monastery "
These famous lines are written by M.Yu. Lermontov about the cross monastery - Jvari, our first stop. Jvari is a cross monastery of the 7th century.
Next, we will go to Mtskheta, the ancient capital of Georgia and visit the Svetitskhoveli temple, where, according to giving, there are many Orthodox values, such as the tunic of Christ, the mantle of Elijah the Prophet, the heel of St. Andrew the First-Called.
The last stop awaits us in the cave city of Uplistsikhe, 10 km from Gori, on the banks of the Kura River there is one of the rarest monuments in the world - the ancient fortified city of Uplistsikhe, carved in the volcanic rocks of the Kvernaki ridge. It was first mentioned in the annals of the 1st century. BC e., and reached its heyday by the 9th-10th centuries.
From far away, this quaint rocky city fascinates with its unusual appearance. As if giant pores on the rocks are gaping cave grottoes, inside which life once boiled. Here were once huge majestic halls, temples, dwellings, interconnected by winding corridor streets. It is hard to believe that this grandiose titanic work to create an entire city from a stone firmament is the creation of human hands.
Transfer to Kutaisi. Overnight in Kutaisi.
4 day. Kutaisi tour and Sataplia Nature Reserve
Breakfast.
Have you heard the name Colchis and want to know this story? You will see unique monastery complexes included in the UNESCO World Heritage List: Bagrat Temple - one of the oldest Georgian churches in Kutaisi, Gelati Monastery - the spiritual center of all Georgia with the Gelati Academy - the center of advanced science of the Middle Ages and Motsametu - the most beautiful monastery in Georgia! Also, the Sataplia reserve is a unique Colchis forest, where traces of a dinosaur were found. From the observation deck on the mountain in the depths of the forest, a stunning view of the entire region opens! Overnight in Kutaisi.
5 day. Airport transfer. Departure
Breakfast. Airport transfer. Departure
2-3 people
Package price per person when staying in a DBL / TWIN room:
in a hotel 2 * + - $ 435
in a 3 * hotel - $ 460
in the hotel 4 * —535 $
Package price per person when staying in an SNGL room:
at the hotel 2 * + - $ 515;
in a 3 * hotel - $ 550;
in a 4 * hotel - $ 690
4-5 people
Package price per person when staying in a DBL / TWIN room:
in a hotel 2 * + - $ 370
in a 3 * hotel - $ 390
in a 4 * hotel - $ 470
Package price per person when staying in an SNGL room:
at the hotel 2 * + - 450 $;
in a 3 * hotel - $ 470;
in a 4 * hotel - $ 620
The package price includes:
• Accommodation in hotels with breakfast;
• Wine tasting in Tbilisi and Kakheti
• Comfortable transport;
• Services of English-speaking guide;
• All entrance fees
Additionally paid:
• Flight
• Early check-in / late check-in / out of the hotel
• Organization of additional food
• Additional excursion program
• Sim cards of local mobile operators (upon request, issued upon arrival at Tbilisi airport)