Georgia 8-Day Tour – Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi

Overview

This 8 day Georgia tour runs west in a single line — Tbilisi, then Kutaisi, then Batumi — with only three hotel bases and no doubling back. It suits travellers who already know Tbilisi and Batumi and now want everything in between, and anyone who prefers caves and river canyons to high mountain passes. It deliberately skips Kazbegi and the Georgian Military Highway; if those are what you came for, look at Georgia 7 Day Tour - Tbilisi, Kazbegi and Batumi instead. Days four and five belong to the Imereti region: the rock-cut town of Uplistsikhe near Gori, then Gelati Monastery, Motsameta, Bagrati Cathedral and Prometheus Cave at Kumistavi, closing with a boat ride through Martvili Canyon on the way down to the Black Sea. Batumi gets two nights for the botanical garden, the Argo cable car and the boulevard; read Batumi Travel Guide before you go. For the west on its own in four days, see Kutaisi and Caves 4 Day Tour. An Arabic-speaking driver earns his place on this route: the road crosses the Rikoti pass with its tunnels and ongoing roadworks, and sites like Martvili and Okatse need someone who knows the boat times, the ticket gates and the right trailhead, instead of an hour lost in villages with no English signs.

The package includes

• ✔ Private modern car with an Arabic-speaking driver for all eight days, from arrival to departure
• ✔ Airport pickup in Tbilisi and drop-off at Batumi airport, or the reverse to match your flights
• ✔ 7 nights of accommodation: three in Tbilisi, two in Kutaisi, two in Batumi
• ✔ No prepayment: you pay on arrival in Georgia, and the car with an Arabic-speaking driver is priced per day for the whole car, not per person
• ✔ Fuel, road costs and parking are all on us, with no daily settling up
• ✔ A written Arabic schedule before you travel, with departure times and distances between sites
• ✔ Advance arrangement of the Martvili Canyon boat ride and Prometheus Cave entry, tickets handled for you
• ✔ A direct WhatsApp line to our Tbilisi office throughout the trip: https://wa.me/995550000663
• ✔ A company officially registered in Georgia, with an agreed written programme before you arrive

Trip Itinerary

1. Day 1: Day One | Arrival in Tbilisi and a first evening in the Old Town

   Your driver meets you at Tbilisi International Airport; the city centre is about 17 kilometres away, roughly twenty minutes. After check-in and a rest we take a short, unhurried evening walk: the Bridge of Peace over the Mtkvari river, Rike Park on the opposite bank, then the lanes of Meidan with their carved wooden balconies and cafes open late. Dinner is Georgian grills and khachapuri, and over it your driver walks you through the eight-day map: where you sleep, what time you leave each morning, and how long each transfer takes.

2. Day 2: Day Two | Old Tbilisi from Narikala to Mtatsminda

   We ride the cable car from Rike Park up to Narikala fortress for the view over the city rooftops, then walk down into Abanotubani with its brick domes over the sulphur baths, and on to the Leghvtakhevi waterfall hidden inside the gorge. Next come Sioni church, Kote Abkhazi street and the Meidan bazaar, then the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sameba. The afternoon covers Rustaveli Avenue and Freedom Square, and the day ends on the funicular from Chonkadze street up Mtatsminda to watch the sun set over the whole of Tbilisi.

3. Day 3: Day Three | Mtskheta, Jvari and the Chronicle of Georgia

   Twenty kilometres north-west of Tbilisi lies Mtskheta, the old capital. We climb first to Jvari Monastery on its hill to look down on the meeting of the Mtkvari and Aragvi rivers, each a different colour, then descend to Svetitskhoveli Cathedral inside the walls. On the way back we stop at the Chronicle of Georgia above the Tbilisi Sea, a row of huge bronze pillars carved with the country's history. The rest of the day is open for shopping in the city malls or resting before tomorrow's move west.

4. Day 4: Day Four | West to Kutaisi by way of Uplistsikhe

   We leave Tbilisi in the morning heading west on the highway. The first stop, about ninety minutes out, is Uplistsikhe near Gori: an entire town carved into rock above the Mtkvari, with halls, passages and a cut theatre — wear comfortable shoes for the uneven stone. We continue through the Rikoti pass and its new tunnels to Kutaisi, around 230 kilometres in total. In the evening we stroll around the Colchis Fountain on the central square and the White Bridge over the Rioni, then settle in for two nights in Kutaisi.

5. Day 5: Day Five | Imereti's monasteries and Prometheus Cave

   A full day around Kutaisi. We start at Gelati Monastery, a UNESCO site, for its mosaics and painted walls, then small Motsameta perched above a bend of the Tskaltsitela river. After lunch we drive to Kumistavi village to enter Prometheus Cave: a long walk between stalactites and stalagmites under coloured lighting, at a steady underground chill, so bring a light jacket even in summer. We return to the city for Bagrati Cathedral on Ukimerioni hill before sunset.

6. Day 6: Day Six | Martvili Canyon, then down to Batumi

   An early start north-west of Kutaisi to Martvili Canyon in the Samegrelo region: a rubber-boat ride between narrow stone walls hung with ivy, over water of a startling clear green, with hanging walkways and a small waterfall at the end of the trail. After lunch we continue west and then south along the Black Sea coast through Kobuleti to Batumi, about 190 kilometres for the day. The evening brings your first meeting with the boulevard, the moving Ali and Nino statue and the Alphabet Tower.

7. Day 7: Day Seven | The botanical garden and Batumi from above

   In the morning we drive nine kilometres north to the Green Cape and Batumi Botanical Garden, terraced down a slope that looks straight out to sea; the easy downhill route through its Asian and Mediterranean sections takes about two hours. In the afternoon we ride the Argo cable car up Anuria hill to see the city, the port and the Adjara mountains in a single frame, then come down to the northern end of the boulevard with its ferris wheel and dolphinarium for families. The evening is Piazza square, Europe Square, the Medea statue and dinner by the sea.

8. Day 8: Day Eight | A last Batumi morning and departure

   A calm morning shaped by your flight time: coffee on the boulevard and a last walk along the seafront, or a run through the central market for gifts — mountain honey, spices and Adjarian tea. Batumi airport sits only about six kilometres south of the city, so the goodbye is unhurried and there is no need to leave the hotel at dawn. If you fly out of Tbilisi instead, we arrange a full overland return day with a proper lunch stop, or a domestic flight, whichever fits your schedule.

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