Kakheti in One Day: Ujarma, Ikalto, Gremi and Sighnaghi
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.
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.
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.
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.
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