Glamping in Georgia (the country): the complete 2026 guide

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Published 26 September 2026·35 min read·Prices and facts checked: September 2026

Georgia has glamping in nearly every region, from canvas tents at 1,185 m in the Adjara mountains to geodesic domes 50 minutes from Tbilisi. Here is every site worth booking in 2026, what a night costs, what is inside the tent, when each one opens and how you reach it from Batumi, Kutaisi and Tbilisi.

Glamping is a tent somebody else has already pitched, with a real bed inside it, power, and a stove. You turn up with a suitcase instead of a rucksack full of gear, and you sleep under canvas for a price that sits between a village guesthouse and a mountain hotel.

In Georgia it comes in three shapes: a canvas bell tent on a wooden platform, a geodesic dome with a glass front, and a small wooden cabin that the owner markets as a glamp. Lotus Belle, the maker behind most of the bell tents in the country, builds them 4 m and 5 m across. Real geodesic domes are rarer than the photographs suggest: the national listing site glamping.ge counts 17 dome sites in the whole of Georgia.

What separates the four ways of sleeping outdoors here is the bathroom, the heating and who carries the gear.

The pitch, guesthouse and hotel figures come from Caucasus Trekking and the Agency of Protected Areas tariff pages; the glamping band is what Georgian sites charge for a two-person unit in 2026.

Almost everywhere except the far eastern steppe. The clusters are the mountains behind Batumi in Adjara, the villages west and north of Tbilisi, Racha around Ambrolauri, Kakheti around Sighnaghi, Guria and Imereti in the middle of the country, and the high valleys at Kazbegi.

glamping.ge counts 81 sites in Adjara, 41 near Tbilisi, 38 near Ambrolauri, 35 near Kutaisi, 18 in Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, 17 in Samtskhe-Javakheti, 14 near Mestia, 12 in Guria, 9 in Kakheti and 2 near Telavi. Read those numbers as an upper bound: the same list files A-frames, wooden cottages and hotel rooms by the Goderdzi ski lift under glamping.

The sites in this guide are the ones that are open, rate 4.3 or better with at least 20 Google reviews, and can be reached and booked.

Adjara has the deepest choice in the country, and the mountain sites all hang off one road: the Sh1 from Batumi up the Adjaristsqali valley through Keda and Shuakhevi to Khulo, then over the Goderdzi pass at 2,025 m. They sit on side roads off that valley at between 500 m and 1,200 m, which is why a drive that looks like an hour on the map takes two.

Glamping Tago

Where: the ridge above Village Tago, Khulo municipality, at 1,185 m with 2,000 m peaks around it. Drive from Batumi: 92.4 km and 2.5 to 3 hours, of which the last 7.7 km from Khulo is a 4x4 road. Capacity: 12 Lotus Belle tents for two plus a nine-bed dome dormitory, 33 beds. Price: it changes with the date, so check today's prices. Season: 1 April to the end of October. Good for: a real mountain night with a wood stove, a vegetarian kitchen and walks that start at the gate. Watch out for: a normal car does not make the last stretch, and there is no toilet or shower inside the tents.

Each tent has a wood-burning stove with the wood included, a gas heater, a double bed that splits into two singles, a sofa, a carpet, sockets, light, linen, towels and earplugs. The shared bathroom block sits under the half-dome, with hot water, heating, shampoo, a hairdryer, bathrobes and mirrors, and the shower glass switches between view mode and privacy mode. The sauna tent with its cold plunge is lit every evening between 20:00 and 22:00 and takes 10 people a round; morning yoga and the campfire are included, and five marked walking routes start at the camp, from a two-hour village loop to a monastery in the next valley.

Eco House Merisi

Where: village Silibauri in the Merisi valley, Keda district, at about 850 m. Drive from Batumi: 54.1 km and about 1h10. Good for: glass-walled cottages with panoramic jacuzzis, a wood stove in the room and a restaurant with a halal menu. Watch out for: it is a hotel with a view rather than a canvas night, a few guests find the restaurant ordinary, and there is no shop anywhere near, so bring what you need.

At 4.8 from more than 1,500 reviews it has more ratings than any other stay in this guide, which also means it is busy. Two managers answer the phone between 10:00 and 20:00, and reception runs 09:00 to 21:00.

Hill Inn Luxury Glamping & Treehouses

Where: above Dandalo in Keda at 725 m. Drive from Batumi: 64.3 km and about 1h25, reachable in a normal car. Price from: 400 GEL a night for a two-room cottage with four beds, and 290 GEL for the bubble tent for two. Capacity: tents, tree houses and cottages. Good for: an outdoor pool, a spa zone in the woods with a sauna and an outdoor bath, an amphitheatre for the bonfire, a home cinema and a small library, and meals cooked on site and carried to your door. Watch out for: booking messages go unanswered often enough that guests complain about it, so phone rather than write.

Its own site and its Instagram both push you towards a direct message, and the Instagram account has not posted since August 2025. The official Adjara listing publishes two more numbers, +995 574 19 91 11 and +995 591 98 93 76, to try when the first one does not pick up.

Mtirala Glamping

Where: Chakvistavi, at the gate of Mtirala National Park. Drive from Batumi: 26.1 km and 36 minutes, the closest glamping to the city. Price from: 500 GEL for the dome for two. Good for: an air-conditioned dome with panoramic windows and its own shower and toilet, a small hydromassage pool, a sauna and a barbecue, with pets allowed. Watch out for: the access road is rough and guests keep saying so, one review sums the place up as having seen better days, and the official Adjara listing registers a single unit with two beds, so it is booked or it is not.

Ajara Glamping, Kokotauri

This is the one glamping genuinely on the Batumi to Khulo road, and it is the one we cannot recommend. The domes sit above Kokotauri in Keda at about 500 m, 58.6 km from Batumi, and the official Adjara database prices a night at 120 GEL, the cheapest real glamping in the valley. Several guests thank the hosts and call the quiet perfect. Others describe a broken bathroom, poor bedding, dead outside lights, a weak breakfast and a very steep unpaved climb that ordinary cars struggle with. Its Instagram has not posted since April 2025.

Hotel Khulo Inn

Not a glamping, and the most useful bed in the valley for anyone arriving without a 4x4. It is a family-run house in the traditional Adjaran oda style at 11 M. Abashidze Street in Khulo itself, 140 GEL a night for 9 rooms and 21 beds, with a bar, a conference hall, free wifi, parking and balconies over the valley. Drive from Batumi: about 85 km of asphalt, no 4x4 needed. It takes cash, its own site is offline, so book on +995 511 20 91 35 or +995 577 30 26 23.

Sleeping near the sea instead

Two places above Batumi work when you want the coast and a bit of nature rather than a tent. Calypso Kvariati is 17.5 km and 24 minutes south of Batumi, open April to October around the clock, and the official Batumi catalogue lists it with breakfast, parking, credit cards and a transfer service; staff speak Georgian, English and Russian. What guests remember is the infinity pool and the 470 steep concrete steps down to the beach, which have no railings. Eagle Nest is a small nature hotel above Batumi with two heated pools and a sea view, 12.5 km by road, and it is reached through Instagram and Telegram rather than a website.

Neither is glamping. On the coast proper the tent sites are thin: the national platform prices Panorama Sarpi at 550 GEL for two and an A-frame at Buknari at 180 GEL for four.

Up on the ridge there is one kitchen, and down in the valley you eat in Khulo.

Yurtalicious, Village Tago

Our own yurt restaurant, fully vegetarian, cooked fresh each morning by women from the village: a breakfast buffet from 09:00 to 11:00 at 32 GEL, an a la carte lunch from 13:00 to 16:00 of Georgian salads, sinori and Adjarian khachapuri, and a dinner buffet from 19:00 to 21:00 at 37 GEL, eaten together at one long table. It seats 24 at the table and up to 32 with the extra tables, and at 5.0 from 67 reviews it is the highest-rated place to eat in the valley. Hikers and day visitors can book a table, and guests are asked not to bring their own food and drink.

Everywhere else in upper Adjara, plan around Khulo. Khulo, Keda and Goderdzi have the supermarkets, pharmacies and ATMs, and Khulo has the last fuel before the pass, because there is none on the Khulo to Zarzma stretch. The guesthouses in the villages cook for their own guests rather than running a restaurant. Our Green Lake guide names the khinkali house halfway up the valley if you are driving from Batumi.

Two, and they are the easiest glamping in the country to reach: both are under an hour from the capital on asphalt, and both work in a normal car.

Jewelberry Glamping Hotel

Where: the Shuaguli garden between the Aragvi and Ksani rivers, 9 km from Mtskheta. Drive from Tbilisi: 33.5 km and about 50 minutes; the airport is 49.3 km away. Capacity: geodesic domes of 28 and 38 m2, up to 4 guests each on a 180x200 bed plus a 140x200 loft bed. Good for: a private Japanese furako barrel or jacuzzi at every dome, a sauna, a pool, free guarded parking, wifi across the site and a restaurant open 11:00 to 24:00 in summer. Watch out for: the outdoor bathroom can run short of hot water when the temperature drops, and jb.camp is a management company building a chain rather than a single owner-run place.

Every dome has a toilet with a shower cabin, a mini kitchen with fridge and kettle, a mini bar, air conditioning and a terrace with a gazebo. Check-in is 15:00 and check-out 12:00, cash, Visa, Mastercard and bank transfer all work, and they will arrange a transfer from the city or the airport.

Mindori Glamping

Where: Kavtiskhevi in Shida Kartli, the first glamping in the region. Drive from Tbilisi: 48.2 km and about 55 minutes on the road, with Gori about the same distance the other way. Capacity: four dome houses, each with a king-size bed, a second bed on the mezzanine, a bathroom with a shower and a kitchenette. Good for: a private wood-fired furako per dome, a summer pool, a barbecue patio, a playground, horse riding and dogs, and breakfast sets cooked fresh by host Anna. Watch out for: there is no phone on its record, so book through mindori.club or Instagram, and a 30-minute horse ride for two is a separate 100 GEL.

Every recent review is from the 2026 season and they are uniformly warm, which is rare. It is pet-friendly, and guests arrive with big dogs.

Yes, and the region has the best-run tent site in Georgia, but Racha is a long way from everywhere and its season is short.

Glamping Georgia, Krikhi

Where: Krikhi near Ambrolauri, in the Racha hills at 612 m. Drive: 104.2 km and about 1h45 from Kutaisi airport, 263 km and about 3h45 from Tbilisi. Capacity: twelve tents, up from the two it opened with in June 2018. Good for: a terrace, mini kitchen, private bathroom, air conditioning, wifi and a projector in every tent, a heated pool, room service, and an owner, Teona, who answers online fast and cooks well. Watch out for: no shops nearby, and a tiring flight of steps up to the tents, so travel light.

Racha's season is the real constraint. The road beyond Oni closes with the first heavy snow, usually by the end of October, and the upper villages stay snowbound until spring; lower Racha around Ambrolauri is reachable all year but goes quiet in winter, with many guesthouses and cafes shut. Come between late June and mid-October. Giorgi Isakadze, who founded the site at Krikhi, told BM.GE that 2026 started late, that poor summer weather held visitors back and that the place filled mainly in August: "Previously the active period lasted around six months, with approximately three months being particularly busy. Now that period has effectively fallen to one month."

Getting there without a car is possible but slow. A marshrutka from the Chain Bridge stand in Kutaisi is 12 GEL to Ambrolauri and 15 GEL to Oni, leaving about 10:00 and 14:00 and taking 2 to 2.5 hours; Kutaisi central bus station runs the same trip for 15-20 GEL, and from Tbilisi it is 30-35 GEL with one or two vans a day, about 8:00 and mid-afternoon. A taxi is 120-150 GEL from Kutaisi and 160-200 GEL from Tbilisi, agreed before you get in. Vanilla Sky also flies Natakhtari to Ambrolauri for 50 GEL one way, 35 GEL for a child aged 3 to 12 and free for an infant.

Two, at very different altitudes, and both are summer-only. This is the region with the best mountains and the weakest glamping supply in Georgia.

Zeta Camping, Juta

Where: above Juta village at the foot of the Chaukhi massif, at 2,270 m, the highest camp in this guide. Drive: 164.2 km and about three hours from Tbilisi to Juta, then the last stretch on foot. Capacity: glamping huts, wooden cottages and space for your own tent. Season: June to October. Good for: hot showers, a kitchen and bar that hikers rate highly, and a position right on the route to the Chaukhi pass, whose seven rock towers rise to 3,842 m. Watch out for: no car reaches the camp, so you carry your luggage a few hundred metres up a hiking trail; pets are not allowed; and reviewers call the food average and the plain tent interiors expensive for what they are.

Zeta's own site has not been touched since 2018, so use the phone. From Stepantsminda it is 20.6 km to Juta, 30 to 40 minutes up an unpaved side valley off the turn at Sno, from 60 GEL one way or 100 to 120 GEL for a return with three or four hours of waiting; there is no public transport up that valley, and a shared minibus runs from Stepantsminda at 09:30 and back at 17:00 with a minimum of five passengers.

Kazbegi Glamping

Named here because people search for it, not because we recommend it: 4.7 stars from only 19 Google reviews, under the 20-review bar we use for everything else in this guide. Guests praise the view over Mount Kazbek and the cleanliness. They also report a rough unsignposted access road, cash-only payment, a noisy water pump and insects outside. Bookings run through its Instagram rather than a website.

If you want Kazbegi with a roof, Rooms Hotel Kazbegi is the benchmark everything else in Stepantsminda is priced against, at 4.5 from more than 5,500 reviews. It is a hotel, not glamping, and it is the honest comparison for anyone weighing a 200-300 GEL tent against a room with the same view.

Kakheti has the most comfortable glamping outside Tbilisi, Guria and Imereti have the most interesting small farms, and Svaneti, for all its fame, has nothing that meets the bar.

Signagi Glamping, Kakheti

Where: on the hillside between the 18th-century Sighnaghi fortress and the Alazani valley, looking across to the Greater Caucasus. Drive from Tbilisi: 110.5 km and about 1h45. Capacity: double rooms, some with a private hot tub. Price for two: about 270 GEL for a dome in Sighnaghi. Good for: sunrise and sunset from the same terrace, and the old town a few minutes away. Watch out for: it trades as Interstellar Glamping, which is the name on its social accounts, and its own site lists a different number, +995 591 21 21 11, from the one on its map entry.

Lost Ridge Inn, Brewery & Ranch

Where: a ridge above the Alazani valley at Kedeli, 4.1 km and six minutes from Signagi Glamping, so the two share one valley and the same wineries. Capacity: limited, and they ask for reservations well ahead. Good for: yurts, the inn's own brewery, which makes beer with wine and with persimmon, horse riding with local guides for all levels, a 2 km walk into Sighnaghi, and a campfire where guests, staff and dogs end up in the same conversation. Watch out for: it is out of town, rooms are small, and breakfast splits opinion: one recent guest found it thin, another called the Georgian spread superb.

Kakheti is also where the hotel alternative is strongest, which is worth knowing before you book a tent. Chateau Mere near Telavi is 86.9 km and about 1h35 from Tbilisi at 4.4 from 890 reviews, and Lopota Lake Resort at Napareuli is 115.4 km and about 2h10 away, a four-season resort of 310 rooms in 16 buildings rather than anything like camping.

Sairme Glampings, Imereti

Where: at the Sairme mineral-water resort in Baghdati municipality at 947 m, 700 m from the springs. Drive: 69.1 km and about 1h10 from Kutaisi airport, which makes it the closest glamping to that airport. Capacity: five units with heating, air conditioning, private bathrooms and kitchen facilities, listed at about 177 GEL a night. Good for: a hillside garden, a big car park and easy access by road. Watch out for: the breakfast the listing promises is not always served, a 2026 guest calls the domes outdated for the price, the internet is weak, and Facebook is the only booking channel.

Komli, Guria

Where: the Gomi hills of Guria, 53.5 km and about 1h05 from Batumi. Capacity: rooms including three cedar wine barrels with electricity and wifi, and a bathroom a minute's walk away. Price: 140 GEL a night for two, 160 GEL with breakfast, and 100 GEL for one with breakfast. Good for: a working family tea farm, a 1.5-hour tea tour and tasting at 60 GEL a person, farm-to-table dinners at 60-90 GEL on the balcony of the oda house, and Gurian home cooking from Grandma Meri's recipes. Watch out for: the bathroom is shared, and you book by WhatsApp or email rather than online.

Shromantic Garden and Dumbo Eco Camp, Guria

Shromantic Garden is a boutique guesthouse at Shroma, 56.9 km and about 1h05 from Batumi, with a covered yoga deck, a vegetarian kitchen and one off-grid forest cabin. Breakfast is in the room rate, lunch and dinner cost extra, vegan food is arranged on request, most rooms have a private bathroom and the forest cabin uses the block in the main house. Pets are welcome by prior arrangement and there are cats about. Rooms, not tents.

Dumbo Eco Camp is the alpine option: a meadow camp in the Gomi forest by the Bzhuzhi river at Shekhvedomedi above Ozurgeti, 58.9 km and about 1h15 from Batumi, sleeping 14 between tents and two new wooden cottages. Lika Dumbadze built it, the kitchen and dining area are new and built to food-safety standards, and a glass-walled veranda opens onto the forest. Cash, card and bank transfer all work, and you book ahead by phone or through its Facebook and Instagram pages.

Svaneti, honestly

Svaneti is the most photographed mountain region in Georgia and it has no glamping worth sending you to. The one site near Mestia with a Google record has 7 reviews, no phone and no website. What Svaneti does have is guesthouses, and getting there is cheap: Vanilla Sky flies Natakhtari to Mestia for 90 GEL one way, 63 GEL for a child aged 3 to 12, and Mestia to Kutaisi for 50 GEL.

A two-person glamping unit runs 120 to 400 GEL a night, and the spread inside that band is about the bathroom and the view rather than the region. Your own tent on a national park site costs 5 GEL per person, and a village guesthouse room costs 30 to 40 GEL, so glamping is the expensive way to sleep outdoors and the cheap way to sleep somewhere spectacular.

2026 prices

Fuel is the other line if you drive. For everything else, the marshrutka rule of thumb, 3 to 5 GEL per hour of travel, is the quick way to sanity-check any fare somebody quotes you.

Every site in this guide gives you a made-up double bed, electricity, a light, somewhere to put your bag and heating of some kind. The bathroom is the part that changes, and it is the biggest single difference between one Georgian glamping and the next.

Domes almost always have their own shower and toilet. Jewelberry's domes of 28 and 38 m2 each have a toilet with a shower cabin, a mini kitchen and air conditioning; every tent at Glamping Georgia in Krikhi has a private bathroom, a terrace, a mini kitchen and a projector; Mtirala Glamping and Mindori are the same story.

Canvas bell tents usually do not. At our own site the tents hold a wood-burning stove with the wood included, a gas heater, a double bed that splits into two singles, a sofa, a carpet, sockets, light, linen, towels, a shoe rack and earplugs, and the showers and toilets are in a shared block under the half-dome with hot water, heating, shampoo, a hairdryer, bathrobes and mirrors. Zeta Camping at 2,270 m has hot showers and proper bathrooms for the camp, not for each hut.

Yes, and that is the question our guests ask more than any other, in English and Russian alike. At 1,200 m a +25 C day turns into a night near 8 C, and at Juta's 2,270 m it drops towards zero even in July.

Heating is a wood stove, a gas heater, an electric heater or all three. A wood stove needs refuelling every three or four hours, which is why people wake up cold in a tent that was warm at midnight. Running a canvas site through the winter means insulating the platform, fitting an inner tent and installing a proper heating system, and most Georgian sites do none of that, which is why the season ends in October.

Practical version: bring a warm layer and a hat for the evening even in August, ask for extra blankets when you check in rather than at midnight, and if the tent has a wood stove, put one more log in before you sleep.

At most sites, yes for email and no for a video call. Mountain guesthouse and glamping wifi is one shared line, and in high season it crawls.

The reliable fix is mobile data. Magti has the widest reach in the mountains, at 99 percent of populated areas including most of Kazbegi and Svaneti: a SIM or eSIM costs 10 GEL with your passport, 5 GB for 30 days is 12 GEL, and unlimited data is 10 GEL a week or 35 GEL a month. Silknet is a fair second and patchier high up. Signal still dies on the passes and is unreliable between Khulo and Goderdzi, so download your offline maps in the city.

The exception worth naming is a proper line. Our own co-working space runs fibre wifi tested at 300 Mbps, with power, screens and whiteboards, which is what makes a video call from 1,185 m work at all. In the tents there is wifi for messages and email, and Magti data as the backup.

Most tent sites run May to October, the high ones June to September, and the valley sites a little longer at both ends.

Our own season runs 1 April to the end of October, and the phone-free Digital Detox week from 26 October to 1 November 2026 is the last thing on the calendar before the mountain shuts for winter: six nights, all meals, yoga, talks, sauna and ice baths included, from EUR 420 for a dorm bed to EUR 835 for a tent to yourself.

You get to the nearest town cheaply, and then you sort out the last 10 to 30 km yourself. That last leg is where a glamping trip in Georgia gets difficult, and it is worth settling before you book the bed.

Three rules make the difference. Marshrutkas are cash only, there is no app, no card reader and no advance booking on ordinary routes, and vans leave when they fill, so carry small notes and travel before midday. Tbilisi has three minibus yards and going to the wrong one is the commonest first-timer mistake: Didube for everything north and west, Navtlughi at Samgori metro for Kakheti. And ride-hailing apps stop at the edge of the mountains, so from the last town you ask the glamping to send a car.

For our own valley the pattern is fixed: a marshrutka from Batumi's old bus station at 1 Mayakovsky Street to Khulo for about 10 GEL, every 30 minutes from 08:00 to 20:00, then the 4x4 taxi that waits by the Khulo cable car station, or one we send. Message reception about half an hour before you reach Khulo. The full arrival guide has the private transfer prices from Batumi, Kutaisi, Tbilisi and Akhaltsikhe, and the last dependable van back from Khulo leaves around 18:00.

Most of them, and the exceptions are worth knowing before you book a city car at the airport.

A normal car reaches Jewelberry, Mindori, Hill Inn, Eco House Merisi, Signagi Glamping, Lost Ridge Inn, Sairme, Komli and Shromantic Garden without drama. A normal car does not reach Glamping Tago: the 7.7 km from Khulo up to Village Tago is a mountain road, so drivers park in Khulo centre and take the 4x4 taxi. No car of any kind reaches Zeta Camping, where the last few hundred metres are a walking trail and the road into Juta itself stops at a barricade. The road up to Ajara Glamping is steep and unpaved, and the last stretch to Mtirala is rough.

Two catches with a hire car. Hire contracts forbid the Goderdzi pass and void the insurance if you cross it, which matters if you plan to come in from Akhaltsikhe. And winter tyres have been compulsory on the designated mountain sections since 1 January 2024: driving without them where they are required costs 100 GEL and 5 licence points, and the car can be taken to a protected parking lot.

Cards work at the bigger sites and cash runs everything else. Bring notes.

Glamping Tago takes credit cards, bank transfers and cash. Jewelberry takes cash, Visa, Mastercard and bank transfer; Dumbo Eco Camp takes cash, card or transfer; Hill Inn and Calypso Kvariati take cards. Hotel Khulo Inn and Kazbegi Glamping are cash only, and so are marshrutkas, village guesthouses and the stalls on the passes.

Rain is the other thing to plan for, because the western mountains are the wettest part of the country. At our place a wet afternoon means the restaurant, board games, Georgian wine or a craft beer and a book in the tent; the dome sites all have a roof and a bathroom of their own; Zeta and Dumbo have indoor kitchens to sit in. Check-in at our camp is from 15:00 and check-out is 11:00, and you can stay on site outside those hours.

Two more questions guests ask before they book. Parking: there is a place to park at Glamping Tago if you have a 4x4, and free parking at Jewelberry, Sairme, Khulo Inn and Hill Inn. Pets: we are pet-friendly at no extra charge, Mindori and Mtirala Glamping take dogs, Shromantic Garden takes well-behaved pets by prior arrangement, and Zeta Camping does not allow them. Children of all ages are welcome with us, and the main guest has to be at least 16.

Yes. Wild camping is legal in Georgia: the coast, the mountains, a lakeshore or a forest are all open, and the one hard rule is that you cannot camp on private property without permission, which takes care in half-abandoned villages where a house that looks empty is not.

Inside a national park you pitch on the designated sites only, and some parks want a permit or advance booking, with real fines if you ignore it. The Agency of Protected Areas charges the same tariff nearly everywhere: 5 GEL per person for a campsite, 20 GEL for a bed in a tourist shelter and 10 GEL for pupils and students, with a tent for hire at 10 GEL a day, a sleeping bag or backpack at 5 GEL and a foam mat at 3 GEL. Fires go in the arranged fire places only.

Three parks make the easiest first night out.

• Mtirala National Park, Colchic rainforest on the Kobuleti-Chakvi ridge 28.3 km by road from Batumi and the wettest place in Georgia at 4,520 mm of rain a year. Nothing on the tariff list charges you to walk in. Two marked trails, Tsablnari and Tsivtskaro, with arranged picnic and camping places, a 220 m zip-line and a rope park at 15 GEL, a horse at 50 GEL a day, and a tourist shelter at the 9th km of the trail. The Tsablnari trail ends at a 28 m waterfall. Season May to October, visitor service on +995 577 10 18 89.
• Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park, 12 marked trails with four tourist shelters along them: no bedding, no indoor cooking, fireplaces only. Campsites, fireplaces and parking sit at the entrances, and the visitor centres are at 23 Meskheti Street in Borjomi and 17 King Solomon Street in Kharagauli, open 09:00 to 18:00 on weekdays. A marshrutka from Didube in Tbilisi is 15 GEL and 2 to 2.5 hours.
• Machakhela National Park, 30 km from Batumi in the Machakhelistsqali valley, three walking trails tied into a car route, a visitor centre at Acharisaghmarti on +995 595 08 60 75, and an active season from May to October.

In the villages the cheapest bed of all is a family's garden: 5 to 10 GEL to pitch, with the house toilet and shower thrown in. Our own site is zoned as a campground too, so you can pitch a tent for a camping-spot fee that covers the showers and toilets.

Pack for a +25 C day and a night near zero, because that is what the Caucasus does in summer.

• A warm layer, a hat and socks for the evening, whatever the forecast for the nearest town says. Weather apps show the valley, not the ridge.
• A rain shell. The western mountains are the wettest part of the country.
• Insect repellent for the humid coast and foothills.
• Sunscreen: the sun is harsh above 1,500 m even when the air is cold.
• Cash in small notes. Marshrutkas, village guesthouses and the stalls on the passes do not take cards, and a 100 GEL note for a 15 GEL fare will not make you popular.
• An offline map, downloaded in the city. Maps.me and OsmAnd show the mountain tracks that other apps invent.
• Your own sleeping bag only if you are camping. A glamping tent comes with linen, towels and blankets, and ours also has earplugs.
• A head torch for the walk to the bathroom block after dark.
• Groceries if you are heading somewhere with no shop. Eco House Merisi, Krikhi and Zeta all have guests who wish they had brought more.

1. Pick the region by the airport you land at: Batumi for Adjara and Guria, Kutaisi for Imereti and Racha, Tbilisi for Mtskheta, Kazbegi and Kakheti.
2. Check the season before the price. A site at 2,000 m is shut for seven months of the year, and the road matters more than the tent.
3. Book the bed at least a week ahead in July and August, and earlier for a whole-site booking: our own June to September dates go 6 to 12 months ahead for groups.
4. Book by phone or the site's own page. Several of the best places in this guide, Hill Inn and Dumbo among them, answer a call faster than a message, and aggregator listings describe the tents wrongly.
5. Sort the last leg in the same conversation. Ask whether a normal car reaches the site, and if not, what the transfer costs and how much notice it needs.
6. Buy travel insurance for at least 30,000 GEL of cover before you fly. It is an entry requirement.
7. Buy a Magti SIM in town rather than at the airport desk if you plan to work or navigate.

• That every tent has its own bathroom. Domes usually do, canvas tents usually do not, and the listing you are reading is often wrong about it.
• That the distances on travel blogs are real. Measured on the road from Batumi's old bus station, Eco House Merisi is 54.1 km away rather than the 50 km its own page claims, Hill Inn is 64.3 km, and Sairme is 69.1 km from Kutaisi airport rather than the 37 km on its listing.
• That the Khulo cable car is a way to arrive. Guides written in 2021 still send readers up it. It has stood still for two years and will be replaced rather than repaired, and there is no reopening date. The taxis that wait at its lower station are the way up.
• That a glamping site is a hotel with a tent. Most of these places are four to twelve units run by a family. Nobody is on the front desk at 23:00, and the kitchen closes.
• That you can turn up. Sites with one or five units sell out on a summer weekend, and several take bookings only by phone or direct message.
• That "Georgia" means one thing. This guide is Georgia the country, in the Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Greater Caucasus range, and not the US state of the same name.

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Glamping Tago: a canvas tent at 1,185 m in the Adjara mountains

We are on the ridge above Village Tago in Khulo municipality, in mountainous Adjara, two and a half to three hours from Batumi. Twelve Lotus Belle tents for two and a nine-bed dome dormitory stand along the ridge at 1,185 m, with 2,000 m mountains around them, and the whole site takes 33 people.

Every tent has a wood-burning stove with the wood included, a gas heater, a bed that splits into two singles, a sofa, sockets, linen, towels and earplugs. The showers and toilets are in the shared block under the half-dome. Morning yoga and the evening campfire come with the stay, the sauna tent with its cold plunge is lit between 20:00 and 22:00, and Yurtalicious, our vegetarian yurt restaurant, does breakfast, lunch and dinner.

A normal car does not make the last 7.7 km from Khulo, so drivers park in town and take the 4x4 taxi, or we send one. We take cards, bank transfers and cash, pets come free and children of any age are welcome. The arrival guide has every route, and today's prices are on the booking page.

Where

Village Tago, Khulo municipality, mountainous Adjara, at 1,185 m

Beds on site

12 Lotus Belle tents for two plus a nine-bed dome, 33 beds

Season

1 April to the end of October

Drive from Batumi

92.4 km, 2.5 to 3 hours; the last 7.7 km from Khulo needs a 4x4

Inside the tent

Wood stove with wood, gas heater, double bed, sofa, sockets, linen, towels, earplugs

Bathrooms

Shared block under the half-dome: hot water, heating, hairdryer, bathrobes, smart-glass showers

Included

Morning yoga and the campfire; the sauna tent is lit every evening 20:00-22:00

Wifi

Fibre wifi tested at 300 Mbps in the co-working space

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