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 518 km round trip from P’ot’i - roughly 10 h 56 in the saddle. On the way it passes 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. The line favours views over speed.
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 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 comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gelati Monastery.
about 259 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 Pitshora.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pitshora write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pitshora. That is the ride.
Pitshora → Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 → Pitshora is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.