Tago village, Adjara (Georgia): the families who host and cook for our guests

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Published 11 November 2026·13 min read·Prices and facts checked: November 2026

Seven families in Tago village, in the mountains of Adjara, keep 27 rooms and 64 beds for guests, 3 to 10 minutes' walk below Glamping Tago. Here is each house, what a room costs, what the village cooks and how to book.

Seven families in Tago village keep rooms for guests: 27 rooms and 64 beds in their own homes, all 3 to 10 minutes' walk below Glamping Tago. The houses are lived-in family homes with a room or a floor kept for guests, usually with a shared bathroom and always with a balcony or terrace. You book the rooms through our village guesthouses page, which shows today's prices, and the meals happen up at the glamping, where breakfast and dinner are cooked by women from the village.

Glamping Tago is a boutique glamping venue on the ridge above Tago village, in Khulo municipality in the mountains of Adjara, Georgia, about 2 hours by car from Batumi. It is built for one group at a time: a wedding of about 30 guests or a retreat of up to 30, with 33 beds on site. The village houses are where guests sleep when a group outgrows the ridge, and where a traveller who wants a village home rather than a tent can stay.

Tago is a small Muslim mountain village of about 70 families on the left bank of the Adjaristsqali, 7 km from Khulo, with its centre at about 1,000 m. Georgian Wikipedia counts 294 people in the 2014 census, down from 366 in 2002, and the village school has no pupils in the 2026-27 year. Families keep cattle that go up to the summer pastures, grow potatoes, cut hay, make kaimaghi, butter and cheese, and dry wild herbs to sell (our village guide has the full story).

Seven of those families open their homes to our guests: Otari, Irina, Maria, Dali, Gulnazi, Marina and Nodari. You sleep in the family's own house, in a room or on a floor they keep for guests. These are authentic village homes, not hotels: simple rooms, mostly shared bathrooms, and a balcony or terrace at every house.

The same village works at the camp. Much of our team comes from Tago and the villages around it, and the restaurant is one of the main ways the camp supports the community: it buys local products, hires local staff, and its breakfast and dinner buffets are cooked fresh every day by local mothers. Mountain villages in Adjara lose people to the coast, and the camp was built to work with the village rather than beside it, as our About page explains.

Glamping Tago sits at the top of the village at about 1,200 m, 90.9 km by road from central Batumi (how to get here). In our Google reviews (4.9 from 648), guests talk first about the view, then about the staff and the food. It has 12 Lotus Belle tents for two and a nine-bed dorm dome, 33 beds in all, and the whole place belongs to one group at a time.

For a wedding of about 30 guests or a retreat of up to 30, everyone sleeps on the ridge and you do not need the village at all. The houses come in for three reasons: the guest list is longer than 33, someone wants a solid roof and walls instead of canvas, or you are travelling alone and want to live with a family for a few nights.

There are seven houses on our village guesthouses page, with 27 rooms and 64 beds between them. Every one is within a 10-minute walk of the camp along the village road, every one has a balcony or terrace, and all of them have a shared bathroom; four also offer a room with a private bathroom.

A few things decide which house suits you. Irina's is the closest, 3 minutes from the tents, and has the most rooms. Only Maria's and Marina's have Wi-Fi in the house, and only Nodari's has its own parking. Otari's and Gulnazi's do not list heating, which matters in the cooler months of April, May and October.

Guest House Welcome, a family house 0.4 km and about 7 minutes on foot below the camp, also takes guests directly and is listed on the Adjara tourism portal Visit Ajara: 4 rooms and 8 beds, free Wi-Fi, parking and payment in cash. It holds a 5.0 rating from 95 Google reviews, and the written ones keep coming back to the host's home cooking and the warmth of the family.

Rooms in the seven houses are priced per room and night, the same for every house, and today's price is on our guesthouses page, where you pick your dates, pay online and the room is held straight away. Meals are separate: guests eat at the glamping, where the breakfast buffet costs 32 GEL and the dinner buffet 37 GEL.

2026 prices

Mountain Adjara cooks with butter, cheese and corn flour. About 95% of mountain Adjarian food is made with butter, and the farms still put up dairy for the winter. These are the dishes you meet at a village table:

• Borano: cheese melted into butter cooked until it browns, served hot in a clay dish and eaten with mchadi, the local cornbread. Georgia gave it Intangible Cultural Heritage status in 2018.
• Sinori: thin sheets of unleavened dough, rolled up and baked with cheese curds and butter. The name means "border" in the Adjarian dialect.
• Kaimaghi: thick cream, one of the dairy products the Tago farms make, along with butter and cheese.
• Adjarian khachapuri: the boat-shaped bread with cheese, butter and an egg yolk in the middle.
• Majuni: rice boiled with honey and black pepper, the Adjarian wedding dessert, whose first portion goes to the bride and groom.

Up at the camp, Yurtalicious, the yurt restaurant, serves a vegetarian kitchen run by women from the village. Breakfast brings khachapuri or lobiani from the oven, porridges, frittata and a salad bar; dinner is adjapsandali, chanakhi, lobio, soups and salads with a dessert. Lunch is à la carte from 13:00 to 16:00, with Georgian salads, sinori and other Adjarian dishes.

Because the camp kitchen is vegetarian, meat comes from the village. For groups who want it, we arrange a dinner at a local guesthouse as a cultural evening, and for weddings and bigger groups there is a barbecue live station next to the event tent, cooked for the whole group.

The village is the reason the camp's activities feel different from a hotel programme. These are the ones run with local people; times and today's prices are on our activities page and tours page.

• Khachapuri workshop: 1 to 2 hours with our kitchen team, the women who grew up shaping khachapuri, for 4 to 35 people.
• Herb walk: 1 to 2 hours through the forest from the tents with a herbalist from the village.
• A day in Ghorjomi: a full day out with a watermill, cornbread from the village bakery and lunch in a family home.
• Honey and a family feast: half a day with a beekeeper whose family has kept bees for generations, tasting wild jara honey and ending with a Georgian feast at his home.

The flowers on a wedding table come from the same families. Local women pick flowers and greens from village gardens and the forest. Early August has few flowers, so plan a different look for weddings then.

When a wedding is larger than 33 guests, the couple and their closest people sleep on the ridge and the rest sleep in the family houses a few minutes below, for weddings of up to about 100 guests. You tell us who sleeps where 7 days before arrival; we book the houses, place everyone and send the organiser the list, and our drivers bring guests up and down. Nobody is more than a 10-minute walk from the dinner tent, and everyone eats together at the camp.

Village guests are not second-class guests. They walk up for morning yoga, the wood-fired sauna, the campfire, the restaurant and the bar, and walk home down the village road. Around 60 tent spots between the house gardens and the camp take campers from late spring to early autumn, and campers shower in the house bathrooms.

It works for retreats too. A meditation retreat of more than 100 people in August 2026 used the camp, the village guesthouses and a camping area together, as our case study describes. On a smaller scale, when the camp was full the evening before one wedding, the bride came up early and slept in a village guesthouse (the wedding story).

Drive or take the marshrutka from Batumi to Khulo, then go up the last 8.6 km to Tago by 4x4. By car it is 90.9 km from central Batumi and about 2 hours; a 4x4 taxi from Khulo takes 30 to 35 minutes and costs 75 GEL for up to four people (how to get here).

• Marshrutka: Batumi to Khulo every 30 minutes from 08:00 to 20:00, about 2 hours 30 minutes, about 10 GEL. From Khulo take a 4x4 taxi; they wait at the lower station of the old cable car, next to the tourist information centre, and have no fixed hours, so a late arrival works if you tell us when you reach Khulo.
• Your own car: a normal car reaches Khulo on asphalt but not the last road up. Park in Khulo centre and take the 4x4 taxi, or come the longer Skhalta valley way: turn off at Zamleti, 4.7 km before Khulo, and climb through Cheri and Dzmagula on a road that suits normal cars and minibuses. With a 4x4 you can drive up and park at the camp.
• Taxi: ordinary taxis go as far as Khulo but not up to Tago. Change to a 4x4 there.
• Groups: big coaches stop in Khulo, and only minibuses and 4x4 cars drive up. A coach group changes to our minibuses in Khulo for 135 GEL each, and a 15-seat minibus from Batumi airport to Tago costs 410 GEL one way (wedding guest transport).
• The cable car: the Khulo to Tago cable car, built in 1985 with a span of about 1.7 km and no pylon, is closed for repair and has not run since 2024, whatever older guides say.

Khulo has the shops (a 24-hour Spar 100 m from the cable car station), the ATMs, the pharmacies and the hospital, so take out cash and buy anything you need there before the climb. The mountain road has long stretches with no phone signal: message us on WhatsApp about 30 minutes before you reach Khulo, and the camp itself has Starlink Wi-Fi. The Khulo tourist information centre sits by the main road next to the cable car station.

To book a village room, book it with us: through our guesthouses page, where you pick the dates and pay online, by WhatsApp or phone on +995 555 56 24 83, or as part of a wedding or retreat booking. For a group, write to us and we hold several houses together. Most of our guests book one to two weeks ahead, so a short-notice trip usually works; weddings and groups book much further ahead, and high-season dates usually go 6 to 12 months ahead.

Come between June and early October. Days in Tago usually reach about 24°C in June and still about 18°C in October, with rain on 11 to 16 days a month through the season, so pack a rain jacket even in summer and a warm layer for the evenings.

The camp, and with it the meals for village guests, runs from 1 April to the end of October. In April, May and October pick a house with heating (Irina's, Maria's, Dali's, Marina's or Nodari's). There is no natural gas in mountainous Adjara, so homes heat with wood stoves and air conditioners. From December to March snow lies on the ground most days and the roads can close.

When a group has the camp, there are good family stays in and around Khulo, 7.7 to 9 km from the camp by road, across the gorge from Tago. None of them is in Tago, and none of them shares meals with the camp.

Rima's Village Home, Vashlovani

A family guesthouse with 4 rooms and 12 beds about 3 km from Khulo, 8.7 km by road from the camp, listed by the Georgian National Tourism Administration. The family cooks home dishes for guests, and the house has a sitting room with a fireplace and a terrace over the valley.

Hotel Khulo Inn, Khulo

A small, newly built family hotel near Khulo centre, 7.7 km by road from the camp. Recent reviews praise the family hosts, the balcony views and homemade breakfasts with the family's own cheese and khachapuri; ask for a room facing the valley.

Sunrise, Khulo

A family-run guesthouse in Khulo town, 9 km by road from the camp, whose reviews keep praising the hostess and her home-cooked Adjarian dinners and breakfasts. Breakfast is included.

• Expecting the cable car. It is closed for repair. Plan the 4x4 from Khulo.
• Expecting a hotel. The houses are family homes with mostly shared bathrooms. Ask for one of the four houses with a private bathroom if it matters.
• Arriving without cash. Guest House Welcome takes cash, and the ATMs are down in Khulo.
• Planning to eat in the house. Meals for village guests are at the camp: breakfast 09:00-11:00, dinner 19:00-21:00.
• Booking a summer wedding too late. High-season wedding dates usually book 6 to 12 months ahead, and the village rooms go with them.
• Sending a big coach up the hill. It stops in Khulo; guests change to minibuses or 4x4s there.

Glamping Tago for this

Stay with the village at Glamping Tago

We are Jonas and Lisa, a Belgian couple who fell in love with Georgia and opened Glamping Tago in 2021. It is a ridge above Tago village with 12 Lotus Belle tents, a nine-bed dorm dome and a yurt restaurant, booked by one group at a time. The women who cook every breakfast and dinner come from the village, and the family houses below are where guests stay when they want a roof of their own or the group needs more beds.

We book the village rooms for you, decide which house takes whom, and everyone eats together at the camp. Village guests walk up for yoga, the wood-fired sauna, the campfire and the bar.

Beds on site

33: 12 tents for two and a nine-bed dorm, for one group

Village houses

7 family homes, 27 rooms, 64 beds, 3-10 minutes' walk

Village rooms

Booked and paid online through us; today's price on the guesthouses page

Meals

Vegetarian buffets by village cooks: breakfast 32 GEL, dinner 37 GEL

Season

1 April to the end of October

From Batumi

About 2 hours by car; 4x4 taxi from Khulo 75 GEL a car

Tents and dorm

Prices change with the date: see today's prices

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