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Soviet past - Day trip to Chiatura cable cars town and Katskhi pillar
Package Details
Destination:
Tbilisi, Georgia, Georgia
Duration: 9 to 11 hours
Price:
$113.00
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Discover the non-touristic Georgia on this full day trip to the macabre town of Chiatura - once a modern mining town with highest number of cable cars, it resembles a ghost town today with its abandoned mines, empty apartments and decaying Soviet architecture.
The time seems to stand still here and so you can take a ride in one of the last rusty cable cars, overlooking the factories, enjoy the panorama view from the half-abandoned concrete settlements on the hills and see a morbide dedication to Stalin here and there.
On our tour we also visit the country side of Imereti region, that builds a contrast to industrial Chiatura - the ancient holy pillar of Katskhi with a tiny church on top or the rock hew Mgvimevi convent with frescoes from XIV century.
The time seems to stand still here and so you can take a ride in one of the last rusty cable cars, overlooking the factories, enjoy the panorama view from the half-abandoned concrete settlements on the hills and see a morbide dedication to Stalin here and there.
On our tour we also visit the country side of Imereti region, that builds a contrast to industrial Chiatura - the ancient holy pillar of Katskhi with a tiny church on top or the rock hew Mgvimevi convent with frescoes from XIV century.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Cableways Chiatura, Chiatura 5500 Georgia
Take a ride in some of the oldest cable cars on territory of former Soviet Union.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Katskhi Pillar, Katskhi Georgia
A monastery built on top of a strange shaped rock in the middle of green Imereti.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Monastery Mgvimevi, Chiatura Georgia
Rock hewn convent in the town of Chiatura
Duration: 1 hour