Imereti, Georgia · Asia
Kutaisi is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Tsqaltubo, 14km from Prometheus Cave.
Kutaisi is in Imereti, Georgia, with about 140,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Tsqaltubo, about 10 km away.
Kutaisi ( koo-TY-see; Georgian: ქუთაისი pronounced [ˈkʰut̪ʰais̪i] ) is a city in the Imereti region of the Republic of Georgia. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it is the third-largest city in Georgia after Tbilisi and Batumi with a population of 160,971 as of 2025. It lies 221 kilometresRead more
(137 miles) west of Tbilisi, on the Rioni River, and is the capital of Imereti.
Historically one of the major cities of Georgia, Kutaisi served as the political center of Colchis in the Middle Ages as the capital of the Kingdom of Abkhazia and Kingdom of Georgia and later as the capital of the Kingdom of Imereti. From October 2012 to December 2018, Kutaisi was the seat of the Parliament of Georgia as an effort to decentralize the Georgian government.
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Within an hour or so of Kutaisi: Tskaltubo Abandoned Sanatoriums (10 km), Prometheus Cave (14 km), Martvili Canyon (34 km), Katskhi Pillar (43 km).
The nearest famous roads are Goderdzi Pass and Georgian Military Highway.
Kutaisi is in Imereti, Georgia, about 10 km from Tsqaltubo.
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A Soviet spa town of grand radon-bath sanatoriums built between the 1950s and 70s, now mostly derelict with trees growing through colonnaded halls. Stalin's private bathhouse survives among them.
10 km · about 20 min drive
natural wonder
Georgia's showpiece cave, 11km long with six of 22 halls open on a 1,800m lit walkway past stalactite curtains and an underground river you can leave by boat.
14 km · about 25 min drive
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A 2.4km limestone gorge on the Abasha River where deep green water runs between walls only 5-10m apart, crossed by walkways and paddled by short inflatable-boat trips. Dinosaur-era fossil bones were found in the rock here.
34 km · about 40 min drive
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A 40 m limestone monolith crowned by a tiny medieval monastery, rising surreally from the Imereti hills near Chiatura: one of Georgia's strangest roadside wonders.
43 km · about 50 min drive
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A Soviet manganese-mining town where aerial cableways strung above the Qvirila gorge in 1954 carried workers up the cliffs. The rusting originals were retired in 2021 and replaced by modern gondolas on the same lines.
48 km · about 55 min drive
2 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
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