Tbilisi, Kakheti, Mtskheta and Gori: 4-day sightseeing tour

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day 1

   You arrive in Tbilisi, you are met at the airport and taken to the hotel. Then — check-in and rest after the journey. This is a technical day to gather strength before the excursions.

2. Day 2

   The most urban day of the trip. You walk around Old and New Tbilisi: the fortress wall along Pushkin Street, carved balconies, the Bridge of Peace, the cable car to the fortress and the Holy Trinity Cathedral-Sameba. The main impression is the city as a layered pie of cultures: in one day you visit Anchiskhati, Saint Gevork Church, a synagogue, Juma Mosque and Sioni Cathedral. The day ends with a wine tasting in a 17th-century cellar, where you taste living wines, listen to toasts and take photos by the Tamada monument.

3. Day 3

   A day in Kakheti, and it is about wine and fortresses. First Bodbe Monastery, where you can touch the relics of Saint Nino, then Sighnaghi — the city of lovers with fortress walls and a view of the Alazani Valley. After — the Kindzmarauli wine factory, where you taste different varieties, and in the evening dinner in a family that makes homemade wine: a table, a cellar and a small tasting with chacha await you. The pace is measured, but rich in impressions.

4. Day 4

   This day is about antiquity and shrines. You go to Mtskheta, ascend to Jvari Church and enter Svetitskhoveli Cathedral. Then a tasting at Chateau Mukhrani and Mukhrani Fortress. Further — the cave city of Uplistsikhe with its thousand-year-old structures and Gori, where you visit the Stalin Museum and the house in which he was born. For tours of 4 nights — return to Tbilisi, for longer ones — transfer to Racha.

5. Day 5

   Racha greets you with silence and mountains. In Ambrolauri you have lunch and taste at the Royal Khvanchkara winery: Aleksandrouli, Mujuretuli, Khvanchkara and chacha. The main thing here is nature: virgin forests on the slopes of the Caucasus Range, mountain streams and passes. Along the way — Nikortsminda Cathedral with frescoes of the 16th–17th centuries, Shaori Lake and the Tskhradjvari shrine. The day is calm, without haste.

6. Day 6

   Transfer from Ambrolauri to Tbilisi. You return to the city, check into the hotel, and you have free time left — you can walk along familiar streets or simply rest. This is the day before departure, without excursions.

7. Day 7

   Breakfast at the hotel, then transfer to the airport. The program ends, but you take with you the taste of Georgian wine and the feeling of a layered pie of cultures that Tbilisi turned out to be.