Gori-Uplistsikhe Old Towns & Borjomi Day Tour

Uplistsikhe - a rock-hewn town, one of the oldest settlements in the Caucasus, and a city center.

Nowadays, it is a historical-architectural museum-reserve of Uplistsikhe. There are streets, squares, a sewer system, four gates, a secret tunnel that leads to the river Mtkvari, a fence, and so on. Uplistsikhe was the residence of the Lord of the local tribal leader. It was named so because the leader of the tribe had great power. The name also comes from here. Lord of the fortress, or in short Uplistsikhe. The name Uplistsikhe was still used during idolatry, therefore the Lordship of the Tribe Leader is a term denoting power and not religion.

Gori is one of the important and oldest cities in Georgia. If you are interested in the history, life of one of the most famous Georgians, one of the main authors of great purges and red terror, the dictator of the Soviet Union regime who made the country a superpower after WW2 win, you have an option to visit Stalin’s museum in his birthplace, Gori. There you can learn some information about Stalin, his life, see his office, his personal items including his pipe, cigars, telephone, at the house where he was born in, railway cabin and more.

Borjomi National Park is one of the biggest in Europe and is a resort town in south-central Georgia - one of the districts of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region and is situated in the northwestern part of the region in the picturesque Borjomi Gorge on the eastern edge of the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park. The town is famous for its mineral water industry, the Romanov summer palace in Likani, and the World Wide Fund for Nature-site Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park.