Every departure includes your own licensed English-speaking guide plus a private vehicle and driver – only your group. Price per person drops as your group grows (1–8 travellers). A one-way private journey from Trabzon in Turkey to Tbilisi in Georgia, linking the green Black Sea highlands with Georgia’s coast, caves and capital – no backtracking. See Sümela Monastery, Uzungöl and the Ayder Plateau, cross the Sarp border on the coast road (your Turkish driver drops you, a Georgian driver meets you), walk Batumi’s seafront and Botanical Garden, visit Kutaisi, the 3,000-year-old cave town of Uplistsikhe and UNESCO-listed Mtskheta, and finish with two nights in Tbilisi’s old town and its sulphur baths. Both legs are fully private. Citizens of many countries, including the EU, UK, US and Turkey, can enter Georgia visa-free; check your nationality before travel. The route also works in reverse. Entrance fees are not included.
The day before the tour, our guide contacts you, introduces himself and gives information about our vehicle. We meet you at the door at the time you specify.
Pick-up at Trabzon Airport and visit Sümela Monastery in Altındere Valley. Evening at leisure in Trabzon.
Morning at Uzungöl lake.
Along the tea coast to Rize and up to the Ayder Plateau via the stone bridges of Fırtına Valley.
Drive to the Sarp border; after passport control your Georgian driver takes you to Batumi for an evening on the seafront boulevard.
Visit the Botanical Garden on the cliffs above the sea.
Drive to Kutaisi for Bagrati Cathedral and the old market.
Drive east to the rock-cut town of Uplistsikhe.
Mtskheta: Jvari Monastery and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral above the river confluence, then on to Tbilisi.
Walk through Metekhi and the old town, take the cable car to Narikala Fortress and explore the Abanotubani sulphur bath district.
Transfer to Tbilisi Airport (TBS).
If you cancel at least 6 full day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel between 2 and 6 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a 50% refund.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.
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