Places in Georgia

The limestone massif of Lechkhumi, 2,002 metres, visible from Kutaisi itself by its 300-metre cliff turned to the south: a double cuesta of sinkholes, with the Tekenteri cave entered through the hollow of a beech tree, the hiding place of the royal treasure named in the chronicle of 1259, the legendary rock to which Prometheus was chained and today the best day hike from Kutaisi, since from 2020 the asphalt climbs to 1,700 metres and two kilometres remain to the summit.

The highest peak of Georgia, 5,203 metres, the eastern anchor of the Bezengi Wall, first climbed in 1888 by Cockin, Almer and Roth, and a popular day walk from Ushguli to its foot at the tongue of the Shkhara glacier: 16 kilometres out and back, 540 metres of ascent, about 5 hours towards the sources of the Enguri.

The "Matterhorn of the Caucasus": the twin-peaked Ushba, 4,710 and 4,690 metres, the home of Dali, held by many climbers to be the hardest summit of the Caucasus, first climbed on the north summit in 1888 and the south in 1903, and the path from Mazeri up the Dolra valley to the Shdugra waterfall and the Ushba glacier beneath its walls.