If you live in Kobuleti during your vacation, then you have an excellent opportunity to travel in Georgia, at least in the next districts. Buy tours can be actually on the street in a tourist firm, which is not much, but they are. We used Tkemali Tour services. Here, in addition to historic excursions, a very large selection of tours, organized specifically for active tourists. This paintball is worth about 10 LAR per person, horseback riding in the mountains of Adjara with the prepructor and without depending on your training. There is such a tour about 20-30 LAR per person. You can afford rafting on the mountain rivers of the Adjara or Diving. One-hour dive with the instructor will cost you about 100 LARs, which is approximately 2500 rubles.
As for the visit to Batumi, I advise you to make tours there on your own, because the benefit of Kobuleti is not far. You can use bus services, it is hourly running to the largest resort town. The duration of the trip is slightly less than half an hour. You can see the seaside boulevard, and if he wants, right on the embankment at the port building, take tickets for the tourist boat and contemplate the main attractions within an hour by Batumi. For children, a trip is free, and an adult ticket will cost 10 LAR.
For 20 LARs you can drive around Batumi by bus. A tourist bus often stands directly opposite the university building. This building you will see right from the seaside boulevard. Skyscraper with a peak on the top. The building is empty, the truth was intended for accommodating the university here.
From Kobuleti also organize tours in Kakheti, Svaneti, to the territory of southern Georgia, in particular in Borjomi, as well as Imereti.
If you relax with children, then you do not advise you to go to long journeys, especially with the kids. We need to walk a lot, it tires, and children will not be interested in tours with a historical note, better entertainment, and so can be found in Batumi. There is a stationary dolphinarium, which works almost every day and take two ideas a day at 12 and 17 hours.
From where we managed to visit and what to see, more remembered on the impressions of the tour of Imereti, namely in Kutaisi. This is a small town, although it is considered the second largest in Georgia. On the territory of Kutaisi there are several objects that are listed by UNESCO Heritage. Among them, Gelacy, Mozymete and Bagrat Temple.
The church of Bagrat is located directly in the city only on its sublime part.
It was built in about 10th century and known for the fact that David Builder was crowned in him. It was David who became a one-piece of different nations of Georgia and created the state that we know today. Until recently, the temple was terrible, dilapidated. Only in the year 2000 he was reconstructed, giving a practically prime appearance. Practically .... there is a somewane in the temple. Such a pilex and large-scale construction was attached to the elevator mine in modern interpretation. It looks like this extension is quite inappropriate, yes, in fact, it is not used for its intended purpose. As for the inner decoration, then there is a full asceticism. There is no abundance of painting, as in other church buildings. Altar, icons, which are not so much - nothing else. Even the church shop we did not find here. But here is a special spirit, the atmosphere. After all, such antiquities can be seen every day. Notable frames and the fact that the dome from copper was erected. Under the influence of climatic conditions, they gradually change their color. Now they are light green and visible almost from each point of Kutaisi. A huge sizes of the Christian cross are erected right in front of the temple.
An even more interesting was the visit to Gelati. Gelati is a monastic complex, located about an hour's drive from the center of Kutaisi to the sublime part. It is clearly seen from the territory of the Bagrat Temple. Gelati is directly related to the name of David Builder, because it was he who laid the first stone in the construction of the temple. This stone he himself carried on his shoulders. Speaking about David, the builder should be mentioned that his burial is also in Gelati. The king is buried right in the main gate of the temple. His tombstone can be seen here. It is very large in size, because the growth of David reached 2 meters of 18 centimeters. Today, the main gates ceased to be such, entrance to Gelati from the opposite side. This was contributed to natural phenomena. And David commanded himself to get buried in the main gate because I wanted to know even after death that his people are alive and therefore everyone who enters the temple should come on his chest. There are several church buildings on the territory of Gelati, but the main thing remains naturally the temple of Gelati. His construction graduated from David's son - Dimitri. Here is an ancient observatory, an ancient library, whose excavations are being conducted today. It is here that the territory of Gelati was taken to the burial of the coffin Tamara, who was still not found.
The inner decoration of the temple is very impressive. Recovery work is underway, so building forests were stood here in our arrival. Very beautiful temple ornamentation, a lot of frescoes on the walls, the main of which is the Holy Deva with a baby. It is executed in the technique of color mosaic, and very shallow, and top covered with gilding. Therefore, with whatever point you did not look at it, it seems that she looks at you.
The temple has a church shop, in which you can purchase church literature, suspension, as well as icons. On average, the cost of one icon is 5-6 LAR. You can buy holy water that is sold in bottles for 1 LAR, or pour it from the source itself. Very impressive this kind of trip, because this appeal to the history of the ancient Georgia.
The third largest temple in which you will certainly be lucky, mozzamet, that in translation means - milders. He was erected in honor of the David brothers and Konstantin, whom the enemies suffered. The brothers were canonized and elevated the temple in their honor. Mozymeat is small, but very cozy. It is impossible to get to it. The bus stopped on the highway, and then you need to walk along the paved road to go to the territory of the temple. The guide told that the temples of Mozamette and Gelati are connected by an underground transition. There is such a rite in Mozameta. If you want to fulfill the desire, then you need to spend three times under the coffin with the relics of saints. Our guide said that his desires were fulfilled. Why not pose. Many of our group committed this ritual.
The trip is very impressed, despite the duration and some tediousness. Drive from Kobuleti to Kutaisi about 2.5 hours. The tour takes the whole day and its cost is about 90 LARs with lunch and cost of all entrance tickets. By the way, the Imereti lunch suggests the presence of the famous Imereti Khachapuri. Unlike Adjara - it is flat, like pits and covered with cheese. Tasty and satisfying. It is difficult to say which khachapuri is tastier.
A number of excursion tours that are organized from Kobuleti involve travel for two days. For example, in Svanetia is the highland part of Georgia. This is a country of snow vertices, clean air. Here you need warm clothes. There is such a tour of 200 LAR per person.
Many directions and routes can be chosen from Kobuleti. You can use the guide services, and you can travel yourself. You can go to Turkey to shopping. Moving to Turkey through Batumi. The minibus costs about 1.5 lars, and there further on foot across the border and on a shuttle to the shopping center. A lot of them. Constantly run taxi, buses, minibuses.