natural wonder
Katskhi Pillar
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.
19 km · about 20 min drive
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Tqibuli
Imereti, Georgia · Asia
About Tqibuli
Tqibuli is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Zovreti, 19km from Katskhi Pillar.
Tqibuli is in Imereti, Georgia, with about 8,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Zovreti, about 18 km away.
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What is there to see near Tqibuli?
Within an hour or so of Tqibuli: Katskhi Pillar (19 km), Chiatura Cable Cars (24 km), Tskaltubo Abandoned Sanatoriums (33 km), Prometheus Cave (33 km).
Are there any good drives near Tqibuli?
The nearest famous roads are Goderdzi Pass, Georgian Military Highway and Kazbegi (Stepantsminda).
Where is Tqibuli?
Tqibuli is in Imereti, Georgia, about 18 km from Zovreti.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 7,957
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Georgia
- Region
- Imereti
- Timezone
- Asia/Tbilisi
- Coordinates
- 42.3478, 42.9977
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Worth the detour from Tqibuli
5 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Chiatura Cable Cars
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.
24 km · about 30 min drive
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Tskaltubo Abandoned Sanatoriums
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.
33 km · about 40 min drive
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Prometheus Cave
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.
33 km · about 40 min drive
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Martvili Canyon
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.
52 km · about 60 min drive
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