A trip to the monastery of David Gareja

The David Gareja Monastery is only a few tens of kilometers from Tbilisi, but you cannot reach it by public transport. From Tbilisi you have to take the train to the town of Sagaredjo / Sagarejo / (along the main road No. 5, about 50 kilometers). From here you can only negotiate a taxi driver who will take you the rest of the way (about 45 kilometers) through a desolate grassy landscape

The asphalt soon ends and most of the way is on gravel

The monastery also has smaller fortifications with watchtowers

You will also find dozens of rock dwellings built directly on the mountain

You will find a number of interesting views of this mystical place

It is definitely worth going from the monastery for a short hike to the mountain ridge. The path is quite obvious.

There is a small rotunda on the ridge

The ridge is only some 840 meters above sea level, but the landscape towards Azerbaijan is falling a few hundred meters lower, so the view is quite worth it.

There are other caves dug in the rock under the ridge, but unfortunately there is a ban on entry, because it is already located in Azerbaijan.

There is another big attraction near the monastery. A huge rock wall, where the monks carved a number of large grooves, which in the rain collect drinking water from all over this rock.