7-Day Georgia Highlights Tour from Tbilisi with Batumi and Kazbegi

• Meet your tour guide at your hotel after arriving from Tbilisi Airport.

• Take a walk around the old part of the city, visit monuments listed as UNESCO Heritage sites, and sip some wine at a local wine cellar.

• Head to Narikala Fortress by cable car, from where the picturesque panorama of Tbilisi begins. Return to your hotel for the night.

• Enjoy breakfast at the hotel and proceed to see Ananuri Fortress, a multifunctional architectural complex from the late feudal period in Georgia.

• Drive to the city of Stepantsminda and take a 4x4 ride to the Trinity Church.

• Visit Truso Valley, full of abandoned hamlets and varied water springs, and continue to Gveleti Waterfall.

Return to Stepantsminda for the night's stay.

• Eat breakfast at the hotel and visit Jvari Monastery, situated on the peak of the mountain, to enjoy the beauty of the magnificent merge of the two rivers, Mtkvari and Aragvi.

• Drive to Chiatura, the only Bolshevik heartland in Georgia during the 1905 Russian Revolution. After years of prosperity, Chiatura is now a "slow" town that lives at its own pace, hidden in a mountain valley on the outskirts of the country.

• Visit Katskhi Pillar, where only a monk lives and women are not allowed to go up. It is approximately 40 metres high and overlooks the small river valley of Katskhura.

• Head to Kutaisi to see Bagrati Cathedral and stay overnight in Kutaisi.

• Have breakfast and head to Tskaltubo, where you can walk around the abandoned Soviet sanatorium, "the place where time stopped."

• Proceed to Martvili Canyon and enjoy the scenery while taking a boat trip on the deep green river.

• Arrive in Batumi. Sunny and modern Batumi personifies all the charm of a southern city and a sea resort of the third millennium, with high-class luxury hotels. The old part of the city is especially exciting, as most of the houses were built in the 19th century.

Stay overnight in Batumi.

• Eat your breakfast and head out to Mtirala National Park, where you can spend the whole day enjoying contact with nature. Return to Batumi for the night.

• Enjoy your breakfast and depart for Gori to visit the Joseph Stalin Museum. In the museum, you will hear stories about his life and see his personal belongings, including the armoured train carriage.

• Visit Uplistsikhe, an ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events in Georgian history, and then return to Tbilisi.

• Enjoy your breakfast and head back to the airport.