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Adjara sightseeing

Adjara is rich in natural, architectural, and cultural monuments. One should especially note Petra Fortress, Gonio Fortress, Skhalta Church, Batumi Botanical Gardens, Pichvnari ancient settlements, dozens of arch bridges, etc.

Your impressions on Georgia, its past, specific Colchian culture, and generally the ancient matins of the world will not be perfect without visiting the Archeological Museum. The Museum is unique is South-Western Georgia. The visitors can get aquatinted with unique materials found during excavations throughout Adjara territory. The oldest exhibits are dated back to the Stone Age. You can see the items as old as 400-300 thousand years which tell us about our ancestors. There are also monument complexes beginning from VIII c. BC. They are part of the Museum exposition. The medieval material found in upper Adjara is also very interesting. See more information on Adjara museums here.

The Kintrishi Preserve is famous for chestnuts, beeches, centenarian oaks, pines, fir-trees and box-trees.

Mtirala National Park with its fascinating Mount Mtirala is the spectacular place of Adjara. Mount Mtirala’s peak reaches 1334 m. It is always wrapped in mist. Its climate is distinguished by exclusive dampness. It is hard to find another place in nature with such unique bio-diversity. Grizzly bears, boars, chamois, roes and other animals are living here. The river Namtsvavistskali slope abounds in such rare species of fish as trout and herring.

Ispani mossy peat bog, another preserve, is situated 300 m away from the Black Sea coast. Ispani peatbog is the unique place all over the world loosing water only through evaporation. The bog fascinates visitors with the lake over land soil covered with 25-45cm thick alive sphagnum. Creation of unique hydrologic regime of the bog is determined due to plants grown on the peat reducing evaporation in hot weather protecting ivy of getting dry. Ispani peat bog surface is smooth covered with sphagnum imbricatum.
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