Georgia 5-Day Tour – Borjomi and Bakuriani

Overview

This 5 day Borjomi and Bakuriani tour is built around mountain air rather than distance covered. It suits families escaping the Gulf summer, travellers looking for a mild spring, and anyone who wants a programme without a daily change of city. All four nights are in Borjomi alone, at about eight hundred metres inside the Mtkvari river gorge, with every day leaving the hotel and returning to it. The pace is deliberately slow: two days in Borjomi between the central park, the pavilion over the warm mineral spring, the cable car and the Romanov palace at Likani; then a full day in Bakuriani at seventeen hundred metres, reached by car in about 45 minutes or, as a unique optional experience, on the narrow-gauge Kukushka train climbing thirty-seven kilometres if it is running on your dates (it is expected back from December 2026); then a day among the Green Monastery, Timotesubani and the forests of Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park. For the same places under snow, see Georgia Family Snow Tour 6 Days - Bakuriani; to choose the right month, Best Time to Visit Georgia; to budget for a family, The Cost of a Family Trip to Georgia in 2026: A Realistic Budget. The Arabic-speaking driver earns his place very practically here: if the train is running on your dates you ride it one way only, and the car meets you at Bakuriani station and drives you back in an hour, so you get the mountain twice, without waiting; if it is not, the same car drives you up in about 45 minutes.

The package includes

• ✔ Private car with an Arabic-speaking driver for all five days on the valley's mountain roads
• ✔ Four nights in one Borjomi hotel, with no hotel change and no luggage moves
• ✔ Pick-up from Tbilisi International Airport and transfer to Borjomi (about 160 km)
• ✔ Seats booked on the narrow-gauge Kukushka train from Borjomi to Bakuriani if it is running on your dates (expected back from December 2026), otherwise the drive up in about 45 minutes
• ✔ The car with you in Bakuriani and the drive back in about an hour
• ✔ Arranging tickets for the Borjomi park cable car and the Didveli gondola in Bakuriani
• ✔ A day in the Green Monastery valley, Timotesubani and Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park
• ✔ Stops at the spring pavilion to fill your bottles straight from the source
• ✔ Booking on WhatsApp https://wa.me/995550000663 with a company officially registered in Georgia

Trip Itinerary

1. Day 1: Day One | Tbilisi to Borjomi and an evening at the spring

   You are met at Tbilisi International Airport and we drive about a hundred and sixty kilometres west across the plain and into the mouth of the Mtkvari gorge, roughly two and a half hours with a rest stop. We arrive in Borjomi and check into the hotel that will be yours for four nights. In the evening we walk in through the gate of the central park to the pavilion over the mineral spring, where the water is drunk warm and salty straight from the ground; this is the same Borjomi water that is exported in bottles. A short walk along the river and a first dinner in mountain air.

2. Day 2: Day Two | Borjomi park, the cable car and Likani palace

   A full day in Borjomi itself. We walk up through the central park beside the Borjomula stream under its dense trees, about two and a half kilometres to the warm open-air mineral pool, on a level path that suits children. We take the park's short cable car up to the plateau above with its Ferris wheel over the valley. In the afternoon we drive west to Likani to see the Romanov palace, built in the 1890s as a summer residence for one of the grand dukes, with its gardens above the river. A short drive back to the hotel.

3. Day 3: Day Three | Up to Bakuriani, and the Kukushka train if it is running

   The Bakuriani day, at about seventeen hundred metres, reached by car in about 45 minutes or, as a unique optional experience, on the Kukushka, the narrow-gauge line opened at the start of the twentieth century, which climbs its thirty-seven kilometres slowly between forest and villages and crosses a steel bridge at Tsemi whose design is attributed to Gustave Eiffel's company. It is expected back from December 2026, so we book your seats if it is running on your dates, and the car drives up by road and meets you at Bakuriani station. After lunch the Didveli gondola takes us up to see the slopes green in summer, then the alpine botanical garden, and we return by road in an hour.

4. Day 4: Day Four | The Green Monastery, Timotesubani and the national park

   We drive about eight kilometres up the Chitakhevi valley to the Green Monastery, a small stone monastery from the early centuries of Georgian Christianity, standing among trees on the edge of a stream. We continue into the Tori valley to the brick monastery of Timotesubani, twelfth century, with its interior wall paintings preserved. In the afternoon we enter Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park from the visitor centre, one of the largest forest reserves in the region, and walk a short trail among pine and beech. A quiet evening in Borjomi, buying honey and mountain tea if you want it.

5. Day 5: Day Five | A last valley morning and the drive to Tbilisi

   Check out with enough time for a final morning: a short walk through the centre of Borjomi and a stop at the spring pavilion to fill your bottles from the source before the road. We set off east back to Tbilisi on the same route with a lunch stop halfway, about two and a half hours. We reach Tbilisi International Airport in time for your flight, and if it is a late one we arrange two hours in central Tbilisi or at a market near the airport road instead of waiting in the terminal.

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