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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A 419 km round trip from Keda - roughly 8 h 13 in the saddle. On the way it passes Grigoleti, Churia, Ispani and Imnati. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
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Kintrishi-Mtirala is where the day begins. Next is Grigoleti.
Grigoleti is a strip of pine woods and black sand on Georgia's Black Sea coast, squeezed between the sea and the great reed beds of Lake Paliastomi, a few kilometres north of the resort of Ureki and a short hop south of the port of Poti. It is a holiday place for Georgian families rather than foreign tourists, with guesthouses among the trees, wooden cafés and a beach that stretches as far as you can see. The sand here, and even more at Ureki, is dark and magnetic, full of iron-rich minerals washed down from the mountains, and locals swear it does wonders for aching joints. After a long day in the saddle feel free to test the theory.
Read the complete Grigoleti write-up.
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Grigoleti comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Churia.
Poti, on the Black Sea coast of Georgia, stands at the mouth of the Rioni, the river the ancients called the Phasis, and this is the legendary land of Colchis, where Jason and the Argonauts sailed in search of the Golden Fleece. Churia lies a short way inland, in the lowlands of Samegrelo, among maize fields, hazel groves and wetlands. The area is part of the Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands, a UNESCO site added in 2021, which protects a remnant of the ancient forests that once covered much of the coast, with alder swamps, peat bogs and rare ferns.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Churia. Next is 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.
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Ispani, about halfway. 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 sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ispani.
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Read the complete Ispani write-up.
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back through Ispani comes up about 246 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Churia.
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Read the complete Churia write-up.
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about 319 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Churia. Next is back through Grigoleti.
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Read the complete Grigoleti write-up.
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back through Grigoleti, late in the day. Next is Kintrishi-Mtirala.
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Read the complete Kintrishi-Mtirala write-up.
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The route ends here after 419 km.
Kintrishi-Mtirala → Grigoleti is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grigoleti → Churia is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Churia → Ispani is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ispani → Imnati is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Imnati → back through Ispani is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ispani → back through Churia is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Churia → back through Grigoleti is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grigoleti → Kintrishi-Mtirala is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.