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Goderdzi Pass

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Recorded distance
168 km
Riding-time estimate
3 h 19
Journey
Recorded itinerary
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Why this ride

A remote mixed-surface corridor with strong terrain and adventure-riding value. It links naturally to Lesser Caucasus and alpine villages.

Editorial context

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Access context

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Seasonal context

Jun-Sep

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Batumi

    Batumi is Georgia's seaside city, and it feels a little like three cities layered together. The old Black Sea port still has its cobbled streets and nineteenth-century buildings, the boulevard runs for miles along a pebbly beach, and behind it all rise the glassy towers of a recent building boom, some of them rather outlandish. Behind the city the Lesser Caucasus climbs steeply into green hills, and that backdrop is what makes the town interesting for riders.

    Read the complete Batumi write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    Batumi sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Goderdzi Pass.

  2. 2. Goderdzi Pass

    Goderdzi is the quiet cousin of Georgia's famous passes. It crosses the Meskheti range, also called the Shavsheti, at about 2,025 metres, connecting the green, humid coast of Adjara to the dry, high plateau of Samtskhe-Javakheti inland. The change in a single morning is startling. Coming from the Black Sea side you ride through steep tea-country hills, dense beech and spruce forest, rhododendron thickets and fog, and then you pop out onto open alpine meadows where the air is thin and cold and the sky is wide.

    Read the complete Goderdzi Pass write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    Goderdzi Pass comes up 56 km in. Next is Akhaltsikhe.

  3. 3. Akhaltsikhe

    Akhaltsikhe means new fortress, and the fortress is the first thing you see: Rabati Castle, a large, restored walled complex on a rise above the Potskhovi river, with a golden-domed mosque, a church and a few towers, floodlit at night. The town of about seventeen thousand people lies in the south of Georgia, in the region of Samtskhe-Javakheti, where the green valleys of the Kura river meet the dry, high plateaus that run toward Turkey and Armenia. Vale, a smaller town, lies to the south.

    Read the complete Akhaltsikhe write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    168 km in you reach Akhaltsikhe.

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