4-day summer tour to Svaneti, which includes transportation, accommodation with breakfast and visits of museums. You will spend four great days in Svaneti, also called the land of thousand towers. It is the most mysterious and fascinating highland region of Georgia. An extraordinary and surreal land of towers, snow, craggy peaks and dancing; where gold was fleeced, where time has not merely stopped, but rather simply never existed.
Itinerary:1st day: Tbilisi — Mestia
We will take you to Svaneti, region of high mountains from Tbilisi in the morning. We will stop in Zugdidi for lunch. After arriving to Mestia, we offer you an excursion through Mestia, which includes a walk in the historical district of Lanchvali, where numerous towers of X-XIII centuries and ancient Svan houses are preserved, and the visit of the Museum of History and Ethnography where unique medieval icons and manuscripts from all Georgia are exhibited. Free time in the evening.
Accommodation in Mestia.
2nd day: Mestia – Ushguli
By SUVs we will be taking you on an excursion to Ushguli: the highest inhabited village in Europe (altitude 2200m), at the bottom of the highest mountain in Georgia – Shkhara (5068m). The Ushguli villages hold buildings that are part of the UNESCO Heritage site of Upper Svaneti.
Accommodation in Ushguli.
3rd day: Ushguli — Mestia
After arriving to Mestia, we will take you up to the mountains to see mountain lake Ushba and the famous mountain Ushba, which is one of the most notable peaks of the Caucasus Mountains. In the evening we will have dinner with the accordance to the Georgian traditions, including the famous Tamada.
Accommodation in Mestia.
4th day: Mestia — Tbilisi
We will be visiting ancient churches of Latali on the way back to Tbilisi. Departure back to Tbilisi.
Arriving to Tbilisi in the evening.
