Park · Kharagauli Municipality, Imereti
Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park
ბორჯომ-ხარაგაულის ეროვნული პარკი
A large protected area of conifer and mixed forest in the Lesser Caucasus between Borjomi and Kharagauli, crossed by marked trails with tourist shelters and campsites.
Where it is
41.8616, 43.1315
Why go
Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park was established in 1995 around the Borjomi Strict Nature Reserve of 1935 and spans parts of Imereti, Samtskhe-Javakheti and Shida Kartli. Walking is the reason to come: the Agency of Protected Areas maintains twelve marked trails, from day hikes to routes of several days that use tourist shelters such as Nedzvi, Likani and Kvabiskhevi, and it also offers horse riding, cycling and snowshoe outings. Visits are organised through two visitor centres, in Borjomi and in Kharagauli, and the agency requires visitors to register at one of them before entering the park. It suits hikers and riders more than travellers looking for a short stop.
Getting there
The Agency of Protected Areas states that registration at a park visitor centre is obligatory when visiting the national park (read 1 October 2026). The centres are at 23 Meskheti Street, Borjomi, and 17 King Solomon Street, Kharagauli; the map pin is the Borjomi centre. Trailheads are elsewhere, so pick a specific route when registering.
Near Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park
Fortress
Atskuri Fortress
A cliff-top fortress over the Mtkvari at Atskuri village, long a defensive post for the Borjomi valley, with a narrow tunnel cut down to the riverbank so the garrison could reach water during sieges.
15 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monastery
Ubisi Monastery
A ninth-century monastery at Ubisi in Kharagauli municipality, pairing a hall church painted in the fourteenth century with a four-storey tower dated 1141.
28 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Craft market
Shrosha Pottery Market
The roadside market of Shrosha's potters, now trading from purpose-built areas on both sides of the new East–West motorway near the village, selling hand-thrown clay pots, jugs and qvevri.
28 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monastery
Sapara Monastery
A working monastery screened by forest and yellowish cliffs near the village of Ghrele outside Akhaltsikhe, where the domed thirteenth-century Church of St Saba stands beside a tenth-century Dormition church.
30 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ