Top Tbilisi Day Trips - page 3

Marbella was a good guide, very friendly. She shared info about Georgia and their culture during the trip and did a nice job of getting us to interact with each other and get to know each other a bit. The whole thing was worth the ten-plus hours round-trip of drive time with traffic. A few things about this activity: the canyon boat ride is an additional $28 USD (70 GEL) and the caves is an additional $16 (40 GEL- without boat) even though the listed prices in this ad are much lower than that. Also there are four significant stops, not two: 1) the canyon; 2) a nearby waterfall with swimming; 3) lunch also at personal expense, at a well-priced and authentic resto; and 4) the cave. Note that lunch doesn't happen until around 2pm. Nowhere in this ad does it mention a waterfall and swimming. Everyone else on the tour knew about it and had swimsuits because they booked this activity through a different site. I missed out because I didn't have anything with me. There are 900 steps in the cave - but - they are not all up (I would say 45% are up and 55% are down) and they are spaced out along the 1.5 km walk, making it manageable. The cave was beautiful and the boat ride and canyon were as well. Definitely worth it, although a bit pricey once it's all added up; I personally think $28 for the canyon was ridiculous but I'm not sorry I did it. Last note: I'd recommend the boat in the cave as well, although I don't know how much more it cost. I didn't get a very good explanation, but the boat happened at the exit - it was as if you could either walk out of the cave, or instead you could boat out. They both ended at the same parking lot.