from 19 reviews
3 days 2 nights
Specific Tour
10 people
English, Russian
Svaneti is probably the most beautiful region of Georgia and the essence of what country can offer to the foreign tourists. All those stunning photos of historical stone villages, lush green valleys and snow-covered mountains…. the most of them were made here.
But mountains of Svaneti are also much more than catches the eye, not just glaciers, towers and instagrammable locations. First and foremost, for thousands of years they’ve been a homeland of Svans, a very distinctive ethnic group related to Georgians.
Svaneti region is situated in the northwestern Georgia along the southern slopes of Greater Caucasus mountains. It consists of two parts – Upper (Zemo) Svaneti and Lower (Kvemo) Svaneti. Upper Svaneti lies in the watershed of Enguri river. Surrounded by highest Georgian mountains, it is a popular tourist destination. Whenever you read in some foreign magazine about “Svaneti”, the author actually means Upper Svaneti.
Svaneti can be visited all year round but the majority of tourists come during summer (for hiking) and during winter (for skiing). Here is the brief overview of the individual periods:
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