Cluster · Tbilisi

Rustaveli Avenue & Kashveti

Afternoon cluster: Rustaveli's flat boulevard, the Kashveti church and the museums; shaded by plane trees, the easiest walk in the city.

Key facts

28″ bags: painful
Time budget: half
Rescue coverage: 100% ≤7′; max p90 6.5′
Places: 2; 1 sleep area in reach

Rustaveli AvenuePhoto: Shalvabaiashvili, CC BY-SA 4.0

Rules in force · 9The Armenia–Azerbaijan and Armenia–Türkiye land borders a…Georgia treats entry to Abkhazia or South Ossetia from Ru…Do not plan travel to Abkhazia or South OssetiaOld-town slopes and stairs in Sololaki and Abanotubani st…

Caucasus ↗The Armenia–Azerbaijan and Armenia–Türkiye land borders are closed; any route that crosses them is not a route, however short it looks.
Caucasus ↗Georgia treats entry to Abkhazia or South Ossetia from Russia as illegal; entering that way can mean arrest or a ban when you next reach Georgia proper.
Georgia ↗Many passports enter visa-free for a long stay; if yours needs a visa, apply only on the official e-visa portal.
Georgia ↗Do not plan travel to Abkhazia or South Ossetia: crossing their boundary lines from Georgian-controlled land is treated as illegal entry, and many governments advise against it.
Georgia ↗In Orthodox churches women cover their heads and shoulders and wear a skirt or a wrap; men remove hats and avoid shorts.
Georgia ↗Carry Georgian lari in small notes for minibuses, markets and the metro card; cards work in most Tbilisi cafés and shops but not everywhere outside the capital.
Kartli ↗Minibuses (marshrutkas) have little space for large bags: leave the big bag at the Tbilisi hotel and take a day pack.
Tbilisi ↗Old-town slopes and stairs in Sololaki and Abanotubani stop suitcases: bags go from the car to the door, never on a walk.
Tbilisi ↗Buy a Metromoney card at a metro station and load it with lari; the metro, buses and the cable car take the same card.

Actions

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Directions

From where I am

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Walking weather, next 5 days

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Plan

How the ground walks, and what is here

Bound and physics

The stretch of Rustaveli Avenue around Kashveti church and the parliament, with cafés and museums.

Slope: flat
Stairs: Few
Shade: high
Surface: paved boulevard
Sleep here or visit: both

Eat and drink here

Café Stamba

A modern Georgian dinner in a former printing house with a courtyard: book for evenings; a taxi from Rustaveli takes ten minutes.

On the ground

Where to rest, how to leave, where to sleep nearby

Rescue anchors

6 places to rest · checked on a 40 m (130 ft) grid

A rescue anchor is a spot where you can stop and recover if the walk goes wrong: a bench, a café, a toilet. Every letter on the map is one anchor, and each has a card below. We check that any point in the cluster is within about 7 minutes’ walk of one, so you are never far from somewhere to sit down.

Map © OpenStreetMap contributors. Lettered circles: rescue anchors (green works in any conditions, amber only on hot days). Dashed outline: the cluster. Red dots: spots more than 7 min from any anchor (none if you see no red). North is up; not for navigation.

Kashveti church courtyard (shade)

Place to sit · Shelter from rain · works in any conditions

North-west: shop, café or bench with a seat