This article will be useful for everybody who enjoys active rest. The trip includes getting acquainted and diving into rural life. It will take you 11 hours, so you will travel a lot and have time to taste meals traditional for this region – Batumi locality.
Detailed travel plan
- Leave Batumi at 9am. The road from Batumi till the Green Lake is 100 kilometers long, however, its quality is not one of the best. That is why if you want to travel on your own, without a guide and travelling group, rent a car with a high clearance, if it is possible – SUV. The road will take you 3 hours or so.
- Make a stop at Green Lake. If you come in summer, you can swim in the lake. However, the water is fresh and cool – it comes from the underground springs. This water is very clear, you may even drink it. An interesting peculiarity of the lake is that it has never ever been frozen. Even at winter. The scientists give no explanations about this phenomenon. The second lake peculiarity is that no live being lives there. You will find no kind of fish in the Green Lake. You can put a tent on the bank of a lake and stay there for a night. But there may be cold and strong wind. If you are 100% sure that you will stay here or a night, take some warm clothes with you.
- Drive to the nearest village – Khulo. Here you can stay for a dinner, if did not have a picnic at the Green Lake or want to taste traditional meals.
- Then we drive to Goderdzi mountain pass. It is located at the altitude of 2025 meters above sea level and is considered the one of the most difficult to overcome on the territory of Georgia. It is recommended to visit Goderdzi mountain pass from the middle of May till the middle of September, in other time the road may be closed. You can see breath taking views. We advise you one more time to rent SUV to drive on this road – another car may not cope with such a road. Beshumi resort is located seven kilometers from Goderdzi mountain pass. That is why, choose a road to Beshumi on a map and drive there.
- The time recommended for a visit is from the middle of July till the beginning of September. Beshumi resort is located at an altitude of 2000 meters and is surrounded with fir and pine trees. There is mountainous fresh air. For those who suffer from bronchial asthma and other diseases of respiratory tract it is recommended to stay here for a period of some days. It is considered that the state of the sick ones is greatly improved. Even if you are not in this list, it would be great for you to visit Beshumi. That is why, when you come here, it is a must for you to make a trip in the forest. It would be especially interesting to visit Beshumi in the first weekend of August, when there is an annual Shuamtoba festival. However, if you do not like crowds of people, you will feel uncomfortable at this time in Beshumi.
- After having a walk in the fir and pine trees forest, go back to Batumi where you have stayed.