Imereti, Georgia · Asia
Tsqaltubo is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Kutaisi, 5km from Prometheus Cave.
Tsqaltubo is in Imereti, Georgia, with about 7,100 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Kutaisi, about 10 km away.
Tskaltubo (Georgian: წყალტუბოს მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a district of Georgia, in the region of Imereti. Its main town is Tskaltubo.
Tskaltubo Municipality is a self-governing unit in the Imereti region. People still lived on its territory during the Stone Age, which is confirmed by the numerous settlements discoveredRead more
during the excavations. The earliest weapon in the Caucasus is found in the White Cave - a copper arrowhead dating back to the 4th-5th millennium BC. It became an official balneological resort in 1920, and was granted the status of a city in 1953.
Located in the central part of Imereti. The municipality is bordered by the city of Kutaisi to the east, Samtredia and Khoni to the west, and Baghdati and Vani to the south. The defining physical-geographical factor of the relief is the deep oval shape of the depression with the appearance of hollow mineral springs, which are bordered on each side by mountain passes. The main forms of relief are lowland-hilly. Rivers flow in the territory of Tskaltubo: Gubistskali, Tskaltubo.
There are 48 settlements in Tskaltubo: 1 city, 47 villages.
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Within an hour or so of Tsqaltubo: Tskaltubo Abandoned Sanatoriums (0 km), Prometheus Cave (5 km), Martvili Canyon (23 km), Katskhi Pillar (51 km).
The nearest famous roads are Goderdzi Pass.
Tsqaltubo is in Imereti, Georgia, about 10 km from Kutaisi.
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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.
0 km · about 5 min drive
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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.
5 km · about 10 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.
23 km · about 25 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.
51 km · about 60 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.
56 km · about 65 min drive
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