One-Day Tours from Tbilisi

Three hours southeast of Tbilisi the green runs out and the ground starts eroding into ridges, gullies and pillars. Vultures live in it. Almost nobody goes.

Explore Georgia’s capital on a guided four-to-five-hour Tbilisi walking tour through the Old Town. Visit Metekhi, Narikala Fortress, the sulfur baths, Meidan Square, historic churches, caravanserais and the Bridge of Peace while learning how the city’s cultures and neighbourhoods developed. It is an ideal introduction to Tbilisi for first-time visitors.

Twelve to fifteen wines, three families who make them, one man who still makes the clay vessels they ferment in — and lunch that goes on considerably longer than you planned.

Two hundred kilometres, four sites, and a jump from Iron Age rock-cutters to a Soviet dictator's railway carriage without ever leaving the Mtkvari valley.

Three UNESCO monuments, two rivers that refuse to mix, and 1,700 years of Christian history — all twenty kilometres from your hotel, and you are back in Tbilisi for lunch.

A 16th-century fortress, a pass at 2,395 metres and a church that sits alone under a 5,047-metre peak — one long, well-paced day north of Tbilisi, in a private car, with pickup at your door.

Kakheti is famous for its wine. This is the other Kakheti — the one where a kingdom kept getting sacked and kept rebuilding, and left four very different ruins to prove it.

Trail Riding on the Trialeti Ridge, 45 Kilometres from the City

Two hours north of Tbilisi the road climbs into a ski resort whose base sits higher than most European summits. You do not have to ski to want to see it.

Five skulls, 1.8 million years old, found under the floor of a medieval town two hours from Tbilisi. It is the oldest evidence of humans anywhere outside Africa, and almost nobody goes.

Two hours southeast of Tbilisi the country turns to semi-desert and the monks got there first, in the 500s. Then north, to a town on a ridge where the whole Alazani valley opens up at once.