# Gori & Uplistsikhe — Cave City Day Trip

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- Canonical: https://gtour.ge/tour/gori-uplistsikhe/
- Author: Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze
- Published: 2016-12-15
- Updated: 2026-10-27
- Language: en
- Russian edition: https://gtour.ge/ru/tour/gori-uplistsikhe/

€185 per person9 hoursPrivate · car & English-speaking guideBased on two travellers

A three-thousand-year-old rock city and the strangest museum in Georgia, with [Mtskheta](https://gtour.ge/georgia/mtskheta/) on the way.

The route

[Tbilisi](https://gtour.ge/georgia/tbilisi/)[Jvari Monastery](#gt-map)[Gori](https://gtour.ge/georgia/gori/)

Why this tour

- —[Uplistsikhe](https://gtour.ge/georgia/gori/) — halls, temples and a theatre carved into a cliff above the Kura

- —[Gori](https://gtour.ge/georgia/gori/) fortress and the Stalin museum, an unsettling piece of 20th-century history

- —[Mtskheta](https://gtour.ge/georgia/mtskheta/)'s Jvari church on the way out or back

- —Lunch in [Gori](https://gtour.ge/georgia/gori/) or at a winery in Ateni gorge

- —Ateni [Sioni](https://gtour.ge/georgia/sioni/) church and its 11th-century frescoes on request

Itinerary

Morning[Tbilisi](https://gtour.ge/georgia/tbilisi/) → Jvari church → [Gori](https://gtour.ge/georgia/gori/): fortress and museum.

MiddayLunch. [Uplistsikhe](https://gtour.ge/georgia/gori/) cave city — 1.5 hours on the rock.

AfternoonOptional Ateni [Sioni](https://gtour.ge/georgia/sioni/); return to [Tbilisi](https://gtour.ge/georgia/tbilisi/) by about 18:00.

Included

- ✓ Private car with driver

- ✓ English-speaking guide

- ✓ All entrances

Not included

- — Lunch

Good to know

- · [Uplistsikhe](https://gtour.ge/georgia/gori/) is exposed — hat and water in summer

- · Combines well with [Borjomi](https://gtour.ge/georgia/borjomi/) as a 2-day trip

Questions

**Is the Stalin museum worth visiting?**
As history, yes — and your guide gives the context the museum leaves out.

Prices are per person for two travelling together, in euros; solo travellers and larger groups are quoted on request. Every departure is private and adjusted to you. Hotels, wineries and restaurants on our routes are [verified by GTour](/verified/).