GTG - Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands. The Power of Nature

Tour Type: botanical tour; forest tour | Region: Adjara

Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands. The Power of Nature

Dates: June – September 2022 | Duration: full day | Group size: 4 – 12

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Intro

The Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands is a natural World Heritage site inscribed by UNESCO in July 2021. It comprises parts of the Colchis Lowland along some 80 km of western Georgia’s Black Sea coastline. More than anywhere else you can experience breath-taking landscapes in all its diversity: flowering meadows with colourful butterflies, foggy mountains and dark rainforests with endemic plants and wildlife animals.
This tour takes you to an unforgettable journey through one of the most species-rich areas of the Caucasus, the Kobuleti Protected Areas and the Mtirala National Park.

Highlights

Explore swamp flowers and insect eating plants
Hike in the subtropical rainforest and identify plant species
Learn more about the biodiversity of Colchis
Enjoy the beautiful waterfalls and lakes
Taste traditional food and beverages

Tour Guide
N,N. local naturaliste

Language
The tour is offered in Russian on Mondays, and in English on Wednesdays. For German-speaking tours please contact us.

Equipment
Hiking shoes, outdoor clothing, sun protection

Meeting point
Batumi, Memed Abashidze Ave 31, near Europe Square

Departure Time
9.00 am

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Itinerary

Batumi – Kobuleti Protected Areas – Mtirala National Park - Batumi

Departure to the Kobuleti Protected Areas (KPA).
It hosts one of the most highly valued wetland ecosystems in the world.
First, we visit the KPA Visitor Centre to get to know the flora and fauna of the area.
Then we walk with swamp shoes on the peat moss carpet and explore water Lilies, the insect eating Drosera, Yellow Iris, Buckbean, and Royal fern. We observe also turtles, coypus, butterflies and birds.
After the walk, we continue to the Mtirala National Park and take a picnic by the Chakvistavi river.
In the afternoon, we dive into the Colchic rainforest with its multiple water sources, mossy stones, a waterfall from a height of 16 m and a hidden lake, called the lake of love. During a 3 -hour walk through the pristine forest we will identify different species of trees like the Oriental beech and the Caucasian Linden, bushes like beautiful yellow Azaleas and colourful flowers. Maybe we can see too Caucasus salamanders, Caucasian parsley frogs and woodpeckers.

Later we take a handmade cable car crossing the Chakvistavi river. On the other bank a farewell dinner awaits us prepared by a family run restaurant. The menue includes regional specialities: Dedluri, chicken in milk sauce spiced with local saffron; Malakhto, young kidney beans in a spiced walnut sauce; Sinori, an unleavened lavash flatbread with Georgian cottage cheese;
Around 9 p.m. we reach our meeting point in Batumi again.

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