Bezengi wall + Ushguli

The top 2 sights of Upper Svaneti: UNESCO village Ushguli and Bezengi wall. The most cost-effective option to explore the highest mountains, biggest glaciers, best panoramas and the most remote village with outstanding 8th-12th century architecture. Two versions, a shorter and a longer hike for the second day. With the shorter version you get more time in Ushguli to visit the museums and relax. With the longer version you have about 2 hours for Ushguli itself.

The Bezengi Wall is the section of the Great Caucasus Mountains where the highest peaks are concentrated forming an enormous wall 4800-5200 m high. It includes peaks Tetnuldi, Gestola, Katintau, Jangitau, Shkhara – the  tallest summit of Georgia (5200 m), and others, as well as three big glaciers (Adishi glacier, Khalde glacier, Shkhara glacier). This hike brings you very close to the high mountains, in fact there are very few places in the world where the average trekker can get this close to the snow-covered peaks.

This hike involves a lot of driving – we save you the trouble of hiking uphill from Kala to Khalde and from Kala to Latphari pass, so that you walk only on the trails and not along the car road.