Waterfall · Gveleti, Kazbegi Municipality, Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Gveleti Waterfall
გველეთის დიდი ჩანჩქერი · Big Gveleti Waterfall
The larger of two waterfalls above Gveleti village near the Dariali gorge, a thirty-metre fall reached on foot after a short drive north from Stepantsminda.
Where it is
42.7050, 44.6142
Why go
Gveleti is really a pair: a small fall and a large one roughly 750 metres apart, and the large one drops about thirty metres, spreading to some four metres wide at its base. A paved road reaches the village; from there the walk follows a service track before narrowing to a path that crosses streams and runs beneath cliffs. It fits easily into a Stepantsminda day alongside the Dariali gorge. GNTA singles out August to October, when sweetbrier, barberry and sea buckthorn are at their most colourful along the path.
Near Gveleti Waterfall
Park
Kazbegi National Park
A national park on the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus around Stepantsminda and Mount Kazbegi, in the Tergi basin, with alpine meadow, cliffs, glaciated peaks and forest.
4 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Gergeti Trinity Church
A walled 14th-century church on the hill above Stepantsminda, standing in front of Mount Kazbek, which rises to 5,054 metres behind it.
5 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monument
Stone Heads of Sno
An open-air gallery of monumental stone portraits carved by self-taught sculptor Merab Piranishvili into granite boulders on a hillside at the edge of Sno village, Kazbegi Municipality, begun in 1984 and still growing today.
11 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Lake
Abano Mineral Lake
A tiny protected lake in the Truso gorge, Kazbegi, whose surface bubbles as carbon dioxide rises from Upper Jurassic carbonate rock beneath it. Not the Abano Pass in Tusheti.
20 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ