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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309 km from P’ot’i to P’ot’i, about 7 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Churia, Ispani, Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands and back through Ispani. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. Long stretches are under trees.
Close to the Black Sea coast of western Georgia, north of the port city of Poti, the land dissolves into marsh. This is the Colchic lowland, where the Rioni and smaller rivers have built a wide plain of peat bogs, alder swamps and lakes, and Pitshora is one of the wetland areas protected here as part of the Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands World Heritage site, listed in 2021. The rains are heavy, the air is warm and humid, and the vegetation is lush in a way that feels almost tropical, surprising if you think of the Caucasus as dry mountains.
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Pitshora is where the day begins. 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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Churia comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Ispani. 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.
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Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands, about halfway. Next is back through Ispani.
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back through Ispani sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Churia.
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Read the complete Churia write-up.
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back through Churia comes up about 270 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pitshora.
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Read the complete Pitshora write-up.
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Pitshora closes the day.
Pitshora → Churia is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Churia → Ispani is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ispani → Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands → back through Ispani is 55 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 → Pitshora is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.