Зекарский перевал / Zekari Pass. Абастумани - Багдати. Грузия. Ноябрь 2023

The shortest and most beautiful gravel road from Akhaltsikhe to Kutaisi through the mountain resort of Abastumani (on the southern slope) in a variety of landscapes from forest to cosmic. However, such a trip will not be useful for every car. You most likely won’t be able to gain time when traveling from, say, Armenia to Batumi - the detour through Rikoti will still be faster in most cases. Unless you have an SUV and pass it at a decent speed. In general, as always, there is one doubt - there are a lot of repairs there and there may be even more at some point. On the way out, I stood up for a 20-minute change of canvas from the Kutaisi side, in Baghdati. timecodes: 00:00:00 - Abastumani 00:04:12 - Abastumani --- start of ascent 00:07:24 - beginning of the serpentine (forest part) 00:07:40 - forest part of the climb 00:44:00 - mountain climb 01:11:48 - Zekari pass (2182 meters) 01:12:20 - mountain descent 01:34:28 - forest part of the descent 02:10:54 - Sairme (resort) 02:11:10 - Sairme --- New Sairme 02:18:40 - New Sairme 02:19:00 - New Sairme --- Bagdati 02:37:13 - Bagdati