CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 482 km round trip from P’ot’i - roughly 10 h 24 in the saddle. It goes by way of Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands, Gelati Monastery and back through Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Imnati sits on the Kolkheti lowland, the flat, wet corner of western Georgia where the Rioni river reaches the Black Sea. The land here is marsh, reed bed and alder forest, laced with canals and small lakes, and it is one of the most important wetlands in the region, with a coastal national park that UNESCO recognised in 2021 for its Colchic rainforests and wetlands. Poti, ten kilometres away, is a port town of nearly fifty thousand people, with a harbour full of cranes and a quiet old centre.
Read the complete Imnati write-up.
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Imnati is where the day begins. Next is Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands.
Rain is the first thing you notice on Georgia's Black Sea coast, which gets some of the heaviest rainfall in the Caucasus and grows a green, tangled forest to match. The Colchic forests and wetlands lie between the sea and the foot of the Lesser Caucasus, behind the resort town of Kobuleti and inland from the lanes of Ispani, with Chakvi, a small coastal town of eight thousand people, about eighteen kilometres away and Batumi not much further. UNESCO listed the Colchic rainforests in 2021 as a remnant of the temperate forests that once covered this part of the world, with trees such as alder, hornbeam, beech and the evergreen cherry laurel, hung with lianas and ferns.
Read the complete Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands write-up.
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Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gelati Monastery.
about 241 km into the recorded legs you reach Gelati Monastery. Next is back through Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands, late in the day. Next is Imnati.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Imnati write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Imnati. That is the ride.
Imnati → Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands → Gelati Monastery is 181 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Gelati Monastery → back through Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands is 156 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands → Imnati is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.