Kutaisi is older than Tbilisi and was a capital long before anyone had heard of Tbilisi. Today it is mostly used as a base, and sensibly so: the city is light on sights of its own, while almost everything people come for lies within an hour.
The international airport is fourteen kilometres from town and is the main gateway to western Georgia, where most low-cost flights land. Tbilisi is three to four hours by road, Batumi two to two and a half.
May to October. The caves and monasteries work year round, but canyon paths get slippery after heavy rain and sometimes close. Worth checking on the day.
More on the region: Imereti.
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Turquoise water in a limestone cut, a boat under an overhanging cliff, a bridged path along the wall. The place photographs so well that half the visitors leave disappointed: they expected half a day of hiking and got an hour’s walk. Here is how not to be one of them.
A country you can drive across in a day, where four hours take you from the beach to a glacier. And where a week covers about a quarter of what you planned. A breakdown by region: what to see, how many days it honestly takes, and where people miscalculate.
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