• Transport from Tbilisi to Toloshi with stops in Akhaltsikhe, a small city of about 50,000 and the capital of Samtskhe-Javakheti. The city has been around for at least 800 years and was a regional administrative centre for the Ottomans from the sixteenth century up to the Russo-Turkish War, Borjomi, and possibly in Gori and Mtskheta too.

• Hike for 4km to Kisiskhevi Castle, built somewhere between the 16th and 18th century. It has a proximity to a present bridge over the Kisiskhevi River caves and spend the night near the magnificent waterfalls.

• Hike to the underground village of Gundi (3 km).

• Visit the caves near Lebisi.

Stay overnight near Lebisi. 

• Hike to the Agara and Gavetti church (6 km)
• Travel from there to Vardzia (4 km).
• Pitstop at Tmogvi in the afternoon. 

Call it a night in the fortress or in a guesthouse. 

• Head to Pia (6 km), the Gelsunda caves (3 km), and Khertvisi another (2 km). 

• Visit Nijgori in the afternoon.

Spend the night in a cave or the canyon near Nijgori for an altogether different experience. 

• Kickstart your morning, with a short excursion to Saro and its old huge stonewalls. 

• Ride back to Tbilisi in a car en-route passing Paravani lake.