«FROM TBILISI TO TIFLIS»

 Advantageous period:

 All-year Round

Duration:

4 days / 3 nights

Base tour route

“Evil is defeated by Good. Good will forever be our aid”

“The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” by Shota Rustaveli

Tbilisi – this is an amazing city with lacy decorated balconies overlooking the River Mtkvari. It is a kind of performance stage celebrating glory of masters, offering delicious cuisine and ancient legends and stories tricking souls with fun and lark. It is a very warm place.

You will be greeted by extremely hospitable, kind and generous city dwellers. While walking through meandering small roads of this ancient city and listening to exciting stories, legends, mysteries, and myths told by historian experts, you will find yourself from modern city Tbilisi into ancient and charming town Tiflis.

Day 1

Arriving to Tbilisi.

Transfer and accommodation at a cozy hotel.

Evening trip through Tbilisi.

Dinner at a star restaurant on the top of Holy Mount Mtatsminda overlooking the night city; John Steinbeck, a great American classic author of the 20^th century wrote, “We were driven by a cable car to a dazzling restaurant on the top of the mount overlooking the beautiful valley. It was evening when we reached the restaurant, and the city below us was sparkling in thousands of brilliant lights. The evening sky of Tbilisi was shining gold standing out against a background of dark mountain tops of the Caucasus”.

After dinner coming down by a cable car.

Day 2

Authorized Private Tour throughout Tbilisi

Lacy decorated balconies overlooking the River Mtkvari, and sulfur baths leading us to the history of founding ever kind and generous ancient town Tiflis.

Fig tree alley under mighty military fortress Narikala and old small streets of Tiflis.

A cup of aroma coffee and first impression of Tiflis by French traveler Jean Chardin’s eyes.

Sioni Cathedral, named after Holy Mount Zion in Jerusalem. One of the most important Christian relics of Georgia, St Nino’s Cross, is kept there.

French fountain in the garden, a gift by a Georgian emigrant to eternal city Tiflis.

Beauty cannot be destroyed by time! Jewelries exhibited at the National Museum of Georgia have over 5000-year old history. You can enjoy the alluring beautiful jewelry collections called the Georgian Treasure.

Moving to German borough, and revealing mystery of the Oldenburg Palace hiding a love-story under its train.

“Tiflisian lunch” and dishes prepared according to special recipes by Georgian publicist Princess Barbare Jorjadze.

The Dry Bridge, “an open-air vernissage of vintages”, and the entrance to the former “Hotel de Londres”, where used to live Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, and in 1890 there was performed Thomas Edison’s first phonogram there.

The Alexander’s Garden, a painted parade hall, a love-story of a pharmacist and moral you can take with you.

Visiting a wine shop with advanced concepts using Enomatic systems offering two types of degustation upon your choice:

• Self-degustation using a sim-card
• Classical degustation led by a sommelier

The shop offers rare and premium class local wine large collection with lab quality tests as well as having bubble-codes;

Dinner accompanied with drama performance at one of the theaters:  Fingers Theatre, Marionettes Theatre, Movement Theatre.

Day 3

Visiting Ancient Town Mtskheta

Chronicles of Iberia, and the very heart of Georgia is situated at the junction of the main Georgian rivers Aragvi and Mtkvari.

Jvari – it is a masterpiece of the Byzantine period classical architecture, and the most “labeled” landmark offering fascinating landscape view.

The Pompeii Stone Bridge lot dated back to 65 BC.

Five sacral relics of Svetitskhoveli Cathedral of 12 Apostles; according to the holy script a cedar raised in the royal garden turned into a sacral tree in the 4^th century AD.

Miracles by Holy Mother Virgin Assumption’s frescos at Shio-Mgvime Monastery and story of Holy Martyr Monk Shio holding burning incense onto his hand.

Getting familiar with traditional Kakhetian winemaking at royal cellar and tasting special and premium class wines “recommended by the olds”.

Lunch accompanied with heartbreaking romances and serenades, and a glass of premium wine revealing centuries-old love-stories through its aroma.

Returning back to Tbilisi.

Day 4

Free time,

You cannot leave Georgia without tasting khinkali (meat dumplings) with chacha (Georgian home-made grape vodka) poured from a kettle.

Transfer to the airport.

Departure.

First of all, we want to draw your attention to the fact that one of our main advantages is personalized service.

Therefore, the format of our work consists of the constructor principle. Talking to you, according to your preferences for accommodation and air travel, we will promptly send you the full cost of this tour, and the base cost, excluding accommodation and air flight. 

What includes in the basic cost of this tour for 4 days/3 nights?                                           

                                                      
Also:

• All tour excursions including museum entrance fees: The Simon Janashia National Museum of Georgia; The National Museum of Cinema and Theatre;
• Cable car fare;
• Eating at premium class star restaurants: 3 lunches, 2 dinners, and a cup of coffee;
3 glasses of wine (white or red upon choice) at lunch and 5 glasses of wine (white or red upon choice) at dinner per person;
3 shots of “right chacha” (home-made grape vodka) per person;
• Testing premium class wine made locally using Enomatic system and having bubble-codes;
• Testing special rare wine from a wine cellar;
• Music accompaniment (live Georgian national folk and pop music) at dinner;

Children under 4-year are free.

Additional fee for:
4 – 12 years old children – 70% of full tour price
Infant chair rent upto 12kg – 20$, and upto 36kg – 35$