Length: 12 km
Start from: Mestia
Drop-off: Zaargashi
Pick-up: Zaargashi
Elevation change: 1450 m
Difficulty: difficult
Season: June – October
As close to mountaineering as trekking gets. A beautiful mountain sprawled over Mestia like a gigantic eagle, Banguriani is covered with forest and flowers. At the plateau (3000 m) meadows give way to rock, snow and a feeling of complete freedom.
Banguriani is not the highest mountain in Svaneti, its height is 3800 m at the summit. But it is a very beautiful one, and the trekking to Banguriani plateau at 3000 m is as close as trekking gets to mountaineering. This is a very long hike, with considerable elevation change. In order to do it in one day you need to be in good physical shape. You return the same way as you go up, so you can turn back whenever you want.
Photographs in order of the trail