Why this ride
From P’ot’i it runs 286 km to P’ot’i; allow about 5 h 32 of riding. The stops in between: Nabada, Ispani and back through Nabada. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Imnati and Ispani
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 286 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 32
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Imnati
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Imnati is where the day begins. Next is Nabada.
2. Nabada
Georgia's Black Sea coast has a wet, green corner that few people think of when they think of the Caucasus. The Rioni river, the ancient Phasis of the Greeks, empties into the sea here, and around its mouth lies the Kolkheti lowland, a flat, humid country of alder swamp, peat bog, reedbeds and shallow lakes. Lake Paliastomi lies just south of Poti, and the Colchic rainforests and wetlands, listed by UNESCO in 2021, preserve a remnant of the forests that once covered the whole plain. This is the land of Colchis, where the Argonauts came for the Golden Fleece, according to the myth, and on a misty morning with the trees draped in lianas it is easy to believe in it.
Read the complete Nabada write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Nabada comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ispani.
3. Ispani
Most of Georgia's Black Sea coast is subtropical, with tea plantations, citrus groves and lush forests, and on the plain near Kobuleti, between the sea and the hills, lies one of the strangest landscapes in the Caucasus. The Ispani mires are raised peat bogs, domes of sphagnum moss that have grown over thousands of years, fed only by rain, and they are among the few such bogs in the subtropics. They are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands, inscribed in 2021.
Read the complete Ispani write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Ispani. Next is back through Nabada.
4. back through Nabada
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nabada write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Nabada, late in the day. Next is Imnati.
5. Imnati
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Imnati write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Imnati. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Imnati to Nabada
Imnati → Nabada is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nabada to Ispani
Nabada → Ispani is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ispani to back through Nabada
Ispani → back through Nabada is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nabada to Imnati
back through Nabada → Imnati is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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