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Tbilisi Tour

Tbilisi, my dear Tbilisi! We're inviting you on a city tour in Tbilisi! Spend a week in our favourite city! Walk the streets and enjoy its ancient and new features, visit the wine cellars and restaurants, bridges and parks ... And if you feel like it, you can spend a day in Kakheti and Mtskheta. The seven-day tour with breakfast included in the price. The price includes: accommodation, a shuttle service from / to the airport, an evening walk around Tbilisi Tbilisi excursion with our guide Levani Chkhvirkia Optional: Excursions to Kakheti and Mtskheta.

Gaumarjos, Tbiliso!

THERE ARE CITIES that make sense. The streets glide along straight, clean lines, their names uniform from start to finish. Bridges are crossable. Signs point in the proper direction. Then there’s Tbilisi. Riotous and anarchic, the capital of Georgia is anything but organized. Locals use Soviet-era street names—Leselidze, Davitashvili, Perovskaya—found only on decades-old maps. Wine is sold in repurposed Coca-Cola bottles for a dollar a liter from boulevard underpasses. The electricity still cuts out in the heart of the “Kala,” Tbilisi's historic old town. Despite this—maybe even because of it—this city is one of the best, most strikingly original travel destinations in Europe or Asia, if not the world. Pop into an unmarked courtyard near the Armenian Norashen Church—overgrown with ripe pomegranates—and find yourself among well-fed stray cats in a bohemian artist’s studio (one of the workers may invite you for home-brewed, noxiously alcoholic chacha; he will not let you refuse, nor should you wish to). Sneak into the basement of the red-brick seminary across from Sioni Cathedral and buy Tbilisi’s best bread—dough thrown against the scalding sides of a circular tone oven—from an elderly kerchief-wearing woman for 30 cents a loaf. This Seaside Community Is Getting Swallowed by the Ocean Head up a slanting set of town house stairs in the fin de siècle neighborhood of Sololaki and find yourself in a speakeasy-style apartment café called Linville, where tables hide behind vines on wrought iron balconies and afternoon tango milongas take place under decorative Victorian parasols. Slip across the Dry Bridge, past the ruined frescoes of the former Grand Hotel, to the flea market and bargain with bearded ex-professors for wooden icons, Soviet-era gas masks, and Turkish tea glasses. Come more than once and the vendors will remember you (I buy my jewelry—traditional Georgian enameling—from the same seller every year; she recalls not just my taste, but that of the mother and grandmother I purchased gifts for). The cliché, of course, is that Tbilisi represents the epitome of East meets West: a Silk Road crossroads where Arab, Ottoman, Mongol, and Russian imperial forces each left their own distinctive cultural mark. And in the heart of the old town, where rugs dangle from whitewashed wooden balconies and bearded Georgian Orthodox priests jostle with tourists on narrow cobblestone streets, it’s a compelling fantasy. But the city's reality is far more complicated—and intoxicating.

По тропам джунглей Колхиды из Кутаиси

HQ of Nove Sujashvili

Era Palace Kvariati

Квартира у моря

New comfortable apartmen with all comforts and view of the sea.

VARDZIA CAVE MONASTERY

The underground halls of the "mountain queen," dug out of the solid rock, Vardzia looks like it was taken directly from the pages of Lord of the Rings. In reality it is a cave-palace-monastery built not by dwarfs, but by Georgians in the Caucasus for their fabled queen Tamar.

Shatili vilage

Shatili (Georgian: შატილი) is a historic highland village in Georgia, near the border with Chechnya. It is located on the northern slope of the Greater Caucasus mountains, in the historical Georgian province of Upper Khevsureti, which is now part of the modern-day region (mkhare) of Mtskheta-Mtianeti.

Индейка под соусом из грецких орехов

1. Индейку очистить от кожи и нарезать на куски среднего размера, не снимая мяса с костей. 2. Положить в кастрюлю мясо, на него — очищенный лук целиком и кинзу в пучках. Залить все ­небольшим количеством воды и варить до готовности. 3. Вареные лук и кинзу остудить и прокрутить через мясорубку с орехами и чесноком. 4. Отделить мясо от костей, положить его обратно в бульон вместе с протертыми ингредиентами. Приправить специями и уксусом, поварить минуту. Подавать сильно охлажденным.