3rd version Svaneti & Anaklia
by Helicopter
Tour Status: Group Exclusive Tour
Destination: Tbilsi & Mtskheta city Tours, Kakheti district, Svaneti Highlands, Anaklia.
Costumer: ketevan Krebser
Tour starting date: 05.05.2011
Tour final day: 10.05.2011
Tour Duration: 5 days / 5 nights
Persons in Group: 19 persons
Accommodation: Hotels in Tbilisi, Sighnaghi and Mestia (svaneti)
Transportation: Minibuses, (2 Mercedes Sprinters, with capacity 32 Persons) 4wd cars
Air Transportation: Helicopter (MI8)
Tour Itinerary
5 May
5:30 meet with group at the Tbilisi International Airport. Transfer to hotel, Time for rest (4 hour). 11:00 meet at the hotel and start a tour. 1st excursion Georgian State Museum. 12:30 excursion in the Georgian State art Museum. 13:30 Drive to Mtskheta (30 minutes). 14:00 Lunch in Georgian Traditional Restaurant "SALOBIE" (1 hour 30 minutes). 15:30 - 19:00c- visit next importent places in Mtskheta (mtskheta is the 1st Capital of Georgia from IV BC to AD IV centuries. There are so much historical & Archeological Monuments, Orthodox Churches & Monasteries, Castles and Natural Places). SVETITSKHOVELI Cathedral (V-XI BC), Jvari (cross) Monastery (VI-VII BC), SHIO MGVIME cave monastery (VI BC). 19:00 Drive to Tbilisi and 19:45 diner in Restaurant (1:30-2 hours). after diner walking to Rustaveli avenue (central Street in Tbilisi) and Melikishvili street. go back to hotel.
Accommodation: Hotel ?
Meal: Breakfast in Hotel, Lunch in Georgian restaurant SALOBIE, Diner in Restaurant
6 May
9:00 leave the hotel and drive to Nutsubitze street for visiting the deaf-and-dumb school. 1 hour for visiting the school. 11:00 Drive To DAVID GAREJI monastery (1 hours 30 minutes on the road). 12:30 - 14:00 - excursion to the Monasteries Territories. DAVID GAREJI is the VI-VII centuries complex with Cave rooms, Churches, Citadels, Fortress walls. 14:00 Lunch (picnic). 15:30 drive to SIGHNAGHI town. 17:30 accommodation hotel Phirosmani. 18:00 - 19 :30 walking tour around Sighnaghi town. 19:30 diner in Hotel Restaurant with Georgian Folk Music Choir (4 persons).
Meal: Breakfast in Hotel, Lunch (picnic lunchboxes), diner in Restaurant
7 May
8:00 after breakfast leave the hotel and drive to Tsinandali. Tsinandali is a house museum of Kakhetian noble and poet Alexandr Chavchavadze. at 9:30 75 minutes excursion in Museum, XVIII centuries Garden and old Marani (location for storing wine in special pitchers). 10:45 drive to VI-VII ac monastery complex NEKRESI. 40 minutes on road. excursion in Nekresi Monastery and old winery. 13:20 drive to village Gremi and lunch at guest house GREMI. 15:50 visit The Gremi Castle (XV-XVI bc) and after 1 hour visit the Alaverdi Cathedral (VII - XI bc) and oldest winery in Kakheti region. 17:20 drive to Tbilisi via Gombori Pass. Accommodation at the hotel. 19:30 diner in Georgian traditional restaurant. 21:00 walking to old Tbilis, Chardin and Erekle II streets. .Go back to the hotel Accommodation: Hotel in Tbilisi
Meal: Breakfast in Hotel, Lunch (Guest house GREMI), diner restaurant in Tbilisi
8 May