
Kazbegi & Gergeti Trinity — Private Day Trip from Tbilisi
Drive north from Tbilisi on the Georgian Military Highway with your own English-speaking driver-guide (Russian-speaking on request). You stop at Ananuri fortress above the Zhinvali reservoir and at the Friendship Monument viewpoint past Gudauri, then cross the Jvari Pass (2,379 m) to Stepantsminda, the town most people still call Kazbegi. It is 152 km and about 3–3.5 hours each way. The high point is the 14th-century Gergeti Trinity Church at 2,170 m, with Mt Kazbek (5,054 m) behind it when the cloud lifts. From May to October our car drives the sealed road up to the church; in snow we switch to a local 4x4. Plan on an 11–12 hour day. In winter the Jvari Pass can close for hours or a day or two after snow, so we check the road the evening before and have a Plan B.









