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.
From Keda it runs 330 km to Keda; allow about 6 h 15 of riding. On the way it passes Imnati, Gelati Monastery and back through Imnati. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Adjara is the strangest corner of Georgia, a damp subtropical strip between the Black Sea and the Lesser Caucasus where tea and tangerines grow within sight of snow. Mtirala and Kintrishi are two neighbouring protected areas inland from Kobuleti and Chakvi, and they hold what is left of the Colchic forest, a relict of the lush woodland that covered this coast before the ice ages. Rainfall is among the highest in the country, and the hills are a tangle of beech, chestnut, alder, rhododendron and box, with ferns, lianas and moss on every branch. Mtirala means something like the weeping or the crying one in Georgian, a reference to the constant drizzle and mist, and you can see why.
Read the complete Kintrishi-Mtirala write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kintrishi-Mtirala is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Imnati comes up about 60 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gelati Monastery.
about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Gelati Monastery. Next is back through 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 through Imnati, late in the day. Next is Kintrishi-Mtirala.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kintrishi-Mtirala write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kintrishi-Mtirala. That is the ride.
Kintrishi-Mtirala → Imnati is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Imnati → Gelati Monastery is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Gelati Monastery → back through Imnati is 106 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Imnati → Kintrishi-Mtirala is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.