I believe one of my most favourite places in Tbilisi is a Turtle Lake (Kus Tba). I have been heading here pretty often, actually just a few weeks ago we did a shorter hiking route heading from Turtle lake to Vake Park. There are pretty many hiking trails around Turtle lake - if you are found of eco-tourism or just like me (us) are looking to wind your head from noisy city sounds - these hikes will do it best!
Today we made a spontaneous route from Turtle lake to Tskenti. At start of this trip I had no idea we will actually end our route there, but as I said - it was a spontaneous route. In time of what we discovered first messengers of Spring - different mountain flowers (snowdrops, for example), had a delicious picnic, seen a rabbit and hound dogs hunting for him, and many other)
Turtle Lake - Tskneti trail map
I forgot to charge my phone so I cannot give you precise route, but according to Google Maps - this route is 7.0 km long and it's to possible to finish it in 1 K 46 min. For us it took around 4 hours and felt like 20 km, but we had three breaks for in-taking our meal, enjoying a coffee or just relaxing with beautiful views.
I managed to capture 41 picture from this route, and proudly am sharing them to you!
Hiking trail near Turtle lake
Turtle Lake
View to Tbilisi city
Rocky garden
Tbilisi rocks
View to Tbilisi from hiking trail
Rocky road
Transformer on Tbilisi hiking trail
View to Tbilisi
First signs of Spring approaching on January 31
Tbilisi Hiking Trails
Sign of Educational Natural Trails
Tried to make a macro here
Tbilisi hiking trail
Another macro with fir cones
Mountain meadow
Another macro
Another angle of Tbilisi city
Some interesting constructions
Spooky forest with a spring
More Spring found on this macro
Rocky mountains
Macro of Snowdrops
Forest
A Stump with fungi's
Dwelling houses on top of a mountain near Tskneti
Kids playing on a Rocks
Fir cones
Mountain meadow
Hay cock
Waterfall
Dwelling house in Tskneti
Dwelling house in Tskneti
Beehives in Tskneti
Street in Tskneti
Junk car in Tskneti
Junk car in Tskneti
Saint George Church in Tskneti
Church bells
Locals on Tskneti streets
Kiosk in Tskneti
Bus stop at Tskneti
You can take a bus N34 and reach Tbilisi Station Square in 15-20 minutes from here
Home for rent in Tskneti