Giorgi — Borjomi Tour Guide for All of Georgia

Giorgi Gotsiridze was born in Georgia and shows it from the inside, the way Georgians know it. His main area is Borjomi and Bakuriani, but he knows the whole country and leads tours all over Georgia.

Giorgi is a driver-guide: he drives the guests himself, so the road is part of the tour too. On the way he tells you about the places you pass, and the route can change if you want to stay somewhere longer.

With Giorgi you drink wine not in a café but at his friend's, a qvevri winemaker. And you sit down at a real Georgian table, not in a tourist restaurant.

"In Georgia a guest is sacred, and with me you are even more than a guest," Giorgi says in his video. He guides in Russian, English and Georgian.

A Borjomi tour from Tbilisi takes a full day: Borjomi Park, the mineral spring and Rabati. Nearby is the Bakuriani mountain resort with cable cars and pine forest: skiing and sledging in winter, walks in summer.

In winter Giorgi leads a 2-day tour: warm sulphur pools in Borjomi under the snow, a night in Borjomi and the Bakuriani resort.

For wine you go to Kakheti: family wineries, qvevri wine made in clay amphorae with an 8,000-year tradition, orange and red wine. A Kakheti day trip covers Sighnaghi, Bodbe Monastery and a tasting.