Tusheti (Omalo) to Kutaisi by bus or road

Every option, compared

Door-to-door times (flights include the time at the airports). Fares are typical ranges from the cheapest seat to the premium one.

• Bus, Three marshrutkas, change at Telavi and Tbilisi: No direct marshrutka: change at Telavi and Tbilisi (allow an hour for each change; in Tbilisi often a taxi between stations). Marshrutkas leave when full, pay the driver in cash (lari); the last ones go mid-afternoon on long routes.
• Private car, 4x4 with driver via the Abano Pass, the Gombori Pass, the Rikoti Pass, per vehicle: About 11 hours of driving: break it with a night at Telavi, or add that place to the trip. The last 72 km from Kvemo Alvani to Omalo is an unpaved cliff-edge track over the Abano Pass (about 2,850 m): 4x4 with a local driver only, open roughly June to early October.

Booking links open the route on the country's transport booking site for trains, buses, boats and transfers, and a flight search for flights, dated about two weeks out (or in season); change the date there.

What it costs your group, one way

Fares × people; a private car is priced per car, one car per four people.

Once you’re in Kutaisi

• Best time: April – June, September – October
• Typical stay: 2 days
• November: Mixed month: November is outside the recommended season (April – June, September – October). Nothing in our data flags November as a problem, but it isn't the season the place is best in.

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