Kakheti

Three days on foot to Black Rock Lake in Lagodekhi, 2,800 m up against the Dagestan border, with ranger shelters and pack horses.

Tbilisi, Mtskheta, Kazbegi and Kakheti in three days, one hotel base, private car and guide throughout.

Five slow days through Kakheti’s cellars and monasteries with two nights at a wine estate, finishing with one night below Mount Kazbek.

A private seven-day loop through Tbilisi, Kazbegi, Kakheti and Mtskheta, with two wine lunches and 3-4 star hotels throughout.

A long private day trip to eastern Kakheti: Gremi, Nekresi, the Kvareli wine tunnel and a short walk into the Lagodekhi forest.

Bodbe Monastery, the walls of Sighnaghi, a family qvevri cellar with bread baking, and a larger Kvareli wine estate, in one private day.

Eight days from Tbilisi to the Black Sea through the places where Georgia became Christian in 337: Mtskheta and the Robe of Christ, Bodbe and St Nino, the Assyrian Fathers’ monasteries, Davit Gareji, Gergeti under Mount Kazbek, Gelati of David the Builder, the cave monastery of Vardzia and the Catholic villages of Meskheti. Daily Mass or Liturgy arranged for groups travelling with their priest.

Three days through the monastic heart of Georgia: Mtskheta and the cliff monastery of Shio-Mgvime, Zedazeni of the Assyrian Fathers, the desert caves of Davit Gareji, then Alaverdi, Ikalto, Nekresi and Bodbe in Kakheti — with a Sunday Liturgy and its polyphonic chant.

One day on the trail of the woman who converted Georgia in the fourth century: her grapevine cross at Sioni, the Living Pillar and the Robe of Christ at Svetitskhoveli, the cell where she lived at Samtavro, Jvari above the rivers, and her tomb at Bodbe.

Northern Kakheti: Alaverdi cathedral, the academy at Ikalto, the Tsinandali estate and the wine that flows around them.

The city of love, the convent of St Nino and a cellar lunch above the Alazani valley.