Kazbegi Day Trip
A guided day trip along the Georgian Military Highway to Stepantsminda, with stops at Ananuri Fortress, the Friendship Monument and Gergeti Trinity Church. Check the current itinerary and booking details on SkyGate.
Monument · Kazbegi Municipality, Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Russia–Georgia Friendship Monument
Monument of Friendship · Treaty of Georgievsk Monument · Gudauri Panorama
A circular stone-and-concrete monument of 1983 on the Georgian Military Highway between Gudauri and the Jvari Pass, lined inside with a tiled mural of Georgian and Russian history above a deep valley.
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42.4923, 44.4530
Why go
It was put up for the bicentenary of the 1783 Treaty of Georgievsk. The reason most travellers pull over today is the outlook: the platform beside the monument, which locals call the panoramic belvedere, looks down into the valley of the Tetri Aragvi. In summer and early autumn tandem paragliders launch here at 2,245 metres and land by the river after flights of twenty to twenty-five minutes. The mural runs the whole way round the inside of the structure and is worth a close look. Standing directly on the highway, it is a roadside stop on the way to or from Stepantsminda.
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Road last checked 2026-09-11.
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Guided tour · skygate
Kazbegi Day Trip
A guided day trip along the Georgian Military Highway to Stepantsminda, with stops at Ananuri Fortress, the Friendship Monument and Gergeti Trinity Church. Check the current itinerary and booking details on SkyGate.
Near Russia–Georgia Friendship Monument
Geological feature
Truso Travertines
White and pinkish travertine fields still being shaped by carbonate-rich spring water on the floor of the Truso valley, protected as a natural monument about two kilometres from Keterisi.
10 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.
11 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Valley
Truso Valley
The high upper valley of the Tergi west of Kobi in Kazbegi Municipality, with mineral springs, travertine, abandoned villages and the Zakagori fortress along its floor.
12 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.
19 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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