Map of Georgia

Georgia's Black Sea capital: a 19th-century old town, a long seaside boulevard, modern towers, a fish market and the Argo cable car.

Batumi's seaside park and promenade, first laid out in the 1880s and now about 7 km long, with beaches, gardens, sculptures and the Alphabetic Tower.

A hillside garden on the Green Cape, 9 km north of Batumi, opened in 1912, with world flora and wide Black Sea views.

A Roman fort near the mouth of the Chorokhi, 15 km south of Batumi, with massive walls, 18 surviving towers and a site museum.

Ruins of a 6th-century Byzantine fortress-city on two seaside hills at Tsikhisdziri, between Batumi and Kobuleti, with wide coastal views.

A relaxed beach town 28 km north of Batumi, with a long pebble beach, family guesthouses and protected peat bogs on its edge.

Adjara's best-known waterfall, a short walk from the Batumi–Akhaltsikhe road about 30 km east of Batumi, close to a medieval arched bridge.

Rain-soaked Colchic forest in the hills above Chakvi, about 25 km from Batumi, with a waterfall-and-lake trail, zip line and village guesthouses.

A quiet river valley on the Turkish border south-east of Batumi, protecting Colchic forest, stone arched bridges and traditional villages since 2012.

A forested valley inland from Kobuleti, protected since 1959, with medieval stone bridges, mountain villages and a multi-day trail to Lake Tbikeli.

Upper Adjara's main town, 88 km east of Batumi at about 920 m, a base for Skhalta, Green Lake, Goderdzi and traditional highland villages.

A young ski resort near the 2,025 m Goderdzi Pass in Upper Adjara, with gentle pistes, guided off-piste and summer walks to Green Lake.

An emerald mountain lake at about 2,060 m in Upper Adjara, ringed by conifer and beech forest, 5 km north of Goderdzi.

A 13th-century hall church in the Skhalta valley south of Khulo, with Palaeologan-style frescoes and a working monastery.

A small pebble bay between Gonio and Sarpi, about 15 km south of Batumi, known for some of the clearest water on Georgia's coast.

Guria's small, green capital and former seat of the Gurieli princes, a base for Shemokmedi, Gomismta and the beaches.

Hilltop monastery near Ozurgeti, burial place of Guria's Gurieli princes and once a treasury for Georgian church art.

Busy family beach resort on Guria's Black Sea coast, known for black magnetic sand and shallow, gently shelving water.

Quieter beach strip backed by pine forest between Ureki and Kobuleti, home to the Black Sea Arena and Georgia in Miniature.

Summer mountain resort at about 2,000 m in Guria's spruce forests, known for wooden cottages, sunsets above the clouds and an August horse race.

Alpine summer village at about 2,000 m above Ozurgeti, known for views over a sea of cloud and now reached by a paved road.

Small spa village in the forested hills of Chokhatauri municipality, source of Nabeglavi mineral water, on the road to Bakhmaro.

Hilltop Monastery of the Archangels north of Ozurgeti, once famed for its treasures, with views over Guria towards the Black Sea.

Quiet dark-sand beach village north of Ureki, next to the wetlands of Kolkheti National Park and Paliastomi Lake.

Georgia's third city and capital of the west, with Bagrati Cathedral, a busy food market and easy day trips to caves and monasteries.

Kutaisi's early 11th-century cathedral, rebuilt in 2012, standing on Ukimerioni Hill with wide views over the city and the Rioni valley.

David the Builder's 12th-century monastery and academy above Kutaisi, a UNESCO site with a gold apse mosaic, royal frescoes and his tomb.

Small cliff-top monastery above a bend of the Tskaltsitela River, honouring two brothers martyred by Arab invaders in the 8th century.

Western Georgia's biggest show cave, near Tskaltubo: six lit halls of stalactites and stalagmites and an optional underground boat ride.

Forested reserve near Kutaisi with real dinosaur footprints, a lit karst cave, Colchic forest trails and a glass platform over the cliff.

Compact two-level karst cave east of Kutaisi, packed with stalactites, stalagmites and columns, with a modern visitor centre.

A metal walkway fixed to the cliffs of the Okatse Canyon near Khoni, reached by a forest trail through the old Dadiani estate.

A 70 m waterfall pouring off a limestone cliff in the Okatse gorge, a short drive beyond Okatse Canyon.

Soviet-era spa town near Kutaisi with warm radon baths, a large park and grand sanatoriums, some restored and many abandoned.

A 40 m limestone pillar near Chiatura topped by a tiny hermit church, where a monk lived on the summit for about 20 years.

Manganese-mining town in a deep gorge, known for the cable cars that have carried people over its rooftops since Soviet times.

Site museum on the hill of ancient Vani, a Colchian city of the 8th to 1st centuries BC, displaying its gold, bronzes and temple finds.

Quiet monastery near Kharagauli with a rare cycle of late 14th-century frescoes by the painter Damiane and a defensive tower of 1141.

Forest spa resort at about 950 m above Baghdati, known for its mineral springs, thermal pools, zipline and cool summer air.

A 13th-century cliff monastery on the eastern edge of Chiatura, built into a natural cave above the Kvirila valley.

Ruins of a 12th-century royal palace south of Kutaisi, a favourite retreat of King George III and Queen Tamar.

Kakheti's historic capital and best base for Alaverdi, Ikalto, Shuamta and Tsinandali, with a royal palace and a 900-year-old plane tree.

Walled royal residence in central Telavi, built in the 17th century and rebuilt by King Erekle II, with a palace, chapels and museum.

Hilltop walled town from 1762 with cobbled lanes, 23 towers and wide views across the Alazani Valley to the Caucasus.

Working convent 2 km from Sighnaghi, built over the grave of St Nino, who brought Christianity to Georgia in the 4th century.

Wine town at the foot of the Caucasus, home of semi-sweet Kindzmarauli and birthplace of writer Ilia Chavchavadze.

A 7.7 km network of tunnels cut into the Caucasus foothills at Kvareli, used to store and age wine at a steady 12–14°C.

Artificial lake below forested hills on the western edge of Kvareli, with a promenade, cafes, boats and an 'I love Kakheti' sign.

Walled monastery in the vineyards north of Telavi, with an 11th-century cathedral about 55 m tall and a historic monks' wine cellar.

Hilltop citadel and 1565 Church of the Archangels, the surviving heart of Kakheti's royal capital, destroyed by Persian armies in 1615.

Hilltop monastery founded in the 6th century, near some of Georgia's oldest churches, with sweeping views over the Alazani Valley.

6th-century monastery near Telavi with ruins of a 12th-century academy where, legend says, the poet Shota Rustaveli studied.

Two monasteries in the forest above Telavi: three 5th–7th-century churches at Old Shuamta and a 16th-century royal convent at New Shuamta.

19th-century estate of Prince Alexander Chavchavadze near Telavi, with a palace museum, historic garden and one of Georgia's oldest wineries.

Visit a Kakhetian family marani to taste wine fermented in buried clay qvevri, often with a home-cooked supra.

6th-century rock-cut monastery complex in semi-desert on the Azerbaijani border, with medieval frescoes in ridge-top cave churches.

Remote semi-desert park in Georgia's far southeast, with badlands, mud volcanoes, pistachio woodland and Alazani floodplain forest.

Georgia's oldest nature reserve, founded in 1912, with forest trails to waterfalls and a three-day route to Black Rock Lake.

Unpaved pass at about 2,850 m on the only road into Tusheti, one of the highest and most demanding drivable passes in the Caucasus.

Tusheti's main village at about 1,880 m, with guesthouses, Keselo's stone towers above, and trails to the region's tower villages.