Best of Georgia: Tbilisi Old Town, Mtskheta UNESCO, Kazbegi Gergeti Trinity, Svaneti Mountain UNESCO, Batumi Black Sea, Kakheti Wine & Caucasus Heritage - A 2026 First-Person Guide
Browse more guides: Georgia travel | Asia destinations Best of Georgia: Tbilisi Old Town, Mtskheta UNESCO, Kazbegi Gergeti Trinity, Svaneti Mountain UNESCO, Batumi Black Sea, Kakheti Wine & Caucasus Heritage - A 2026 First-Person Guide When people ask me where in the wider world I would send a first-time traveller who wants Europe, Asia, mountains, sea, ancient faith, and a wine story older than written history all in one trip, I say Georgia. Not the American state. The country wedged between the Caucasus mountains and the Black Sea, 69,700 square kilometres of stone churches, glacier valleys, vineyards, and a population of only about 3.7 million people who somehow built one of the oldest continuously practiced Christian cultures in the world, the oldest known wine making tradition on earth, and a script so unusual that UNESCO recognises it as one of only fourteen living writing systems still in everyday use. I have circled back to Georgia more times than I planned because ever...