Day 01
Kazbegi Highlights Tour from Tbilisi
- Meet your guide and begin the tour at 9:00 AM.
- You will visit Jinvali, the largest reservoir in eastern Georgia.
- Next, visit the fortress of Ananuri, one of the finest monuments of late feudal Georgia. Although there are many monuments like this across the country, Ananuri offers a particularly clear understanding of how people lived in that distant time. Unlike other similar structures, the Ananuri complex is perfectly preserved. This special feature draws the interest of both tourists and historians, and since 2012, the fortress has held the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Following the fortress, you will have the option to break for lunch at Pasanauri Restaurant, where you will have the opportunity to taste traditional Georgian khinkali.
- After lunch, you will head to Gudauri, a ski resort situated on a south-facing plateau of the Greater Caucasus Mountain.
- Thereafter, you will encounter the People's Friendship Arch, inspired by the famous sculptor Tsereteli. It was built at 2,384 meters in the Kazbegi district, on the cross pass near the Georgian Military Road.
- Later, you will visit the Stepantsminda (Kazbegi) Trinity Church in Gergeti. On the majestic slope of Mount Kazbek, among the snow-covered ranges, stands the ancient Georgian Trinity Church. It is located at an altitude of 2,170 meters near the town of Stepantsminda and the village of Gergeti.
- Towards the end of your tour, you will have the option for dinner before returning to Tbilisi.
