We offer you a detailed plan of excursions and sightseeing in Kutaisi and the surrounding area in one day. We do not insist that you strictly adhere to the plan, but this is the route we recommend, the most popular among tourists.
Plan of a one-day excursion in Kutaisi
- Breakfast in Kutaisi – 30 minutes.
- Drive from Kutaisi to Prometheus Cave – distance 22 km.
Useful tip: it's always cold in the cave, and the tour lasts about an hour, it's worth taking warm clothes with you.
- Choose a tour, there are two of them - either on foot or by boat on an underground river - 1 hour.
- Having finished with the excursion in the Prometheus Cave, we go to the Sataplia Reserve - a distance of 23 km.
- We walk around the reserve, examine the traces of dinosaurs (the real ones, they belong to the Cretaceous period), layouts – 1.5 hours.
- We return to Kutaisi – distance 12 km.
- Lunch - 30 minutes.
- Drive to the Katskhi Pillar – distance 65 km.
- We examine the pillar, climb the spiral staircase. There will be a small church upstairs, if the rector allows, you can visit it – 1 hour.
- We return back to Kutaisi – distance 65 km.
- Now our path goes to the Gelati monastery – a distance of 9 km.
- We visit the monastery, get acquainted with its frescoes, if you are allowed, you can look at the burial place of David Aghmashenebeli – on his orders this monastery was built – 1 hour.
- We go to another temple – the temple of Bagrat. It is easy to get to, it is located on a hill and is visible from almost anywhere in the city of Kutaisi – a distance of 10 km.
- Get acquainted with the architecture of the temple - it is known primarily as a vivid example of the medieval architectural architecture of the entire Transcaucasus – 1 hour
- Dinner in Kutaisi – 30 minutes.