David Gareja monastery complex
65 reviews
March 13
It's a very beautiful way to the monastery! In the monastery complex itself, you can walk everywhere, you need comfortable shoes and more time to experience grace! A cat with intelligent eyes followed us everywhere and looked after us!
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August 2, 2024
A beautiful, secluded place and area. Green steppes and hills interspersed with red, orange rocks. The monastery itself is also impressive, partly built in rocks, partly in caves and in the center of a more traditional architecture. Definitely worth a visit. The main thing is comfortable shoes and clothes. On the way or on the way back, buy the freshest suluguni from a local grandmother. Ask the locals and they will tell you where, we found it the first time by asking an employee of the local MFC in the center of the village in a building with a slightly cosmic view for the village. There is a cafe at the exit from the village towards the monastery.
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February 6
An unusual, beautiful place, worth a visit. It was a particularly pleasant surprise that there was a very unremarkable place outside, unlike when you go inside! It's not very close, though. But it's beautiful!
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January 2
It's a long day and the stunning watercolor silence of autumn in the mountains. A picturesque place! The spaces (and constantly changing camera angles) of the main courtyard are mesmerizing!!!
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November 14, 2024
A spiritual place, a very ancient monastery. The entire monastery complex is carved right into the rock. Gorgeous desert mountains! Do not forget!
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May 11, 2024
A place for meditation, prayer and solitude. Incredible landscape , fascinating views . The air is saturated with freshness. The famous Saint David of Goregia rests in the monastery. I recommend taking comfortable sports shoes. And in general I recommend this place
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October 21, 2024
A beautiful and interesting place. There is an organized parking lot. Toilets, a church store.
Sections of the "colored mountains" are visible nearby.
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May 15, 2024
Great place! The monastery itself is very beautiful, as well as the views of the surrounding area from it! I definitely advise you to visit. The road is perfect (only through Sagareggio!) and when approaching the monastery, wonderful views open up along the way! There are few tourists early in the morning. Border guards are present, they are not allowed to bypass.
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July 7, 2024
The monastery is not far (an hour's drive) from Tbilisi, but on the border with Azerbaijan. Beautiful views of the unusual steppe, red in color. The monastery resembles Meteors in Greece. It is very interesting to visit. Part of the road is unpaved, but it is quite flat.
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October 7, 2024
Definitely 5 points.
A few meters from the Azerbaijani border.
It fits very romantically into the mountain landscape.
There is a small shop at the monastery. We bought a bottle of Kakheti wine.
The road from Tbilisi is good.
Definitely worth a visit.
I recommend.
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May 29, 2024
The place is a must-visit for both pilgrimage groups and secular tourists. The current monastery is unusual, the cells are located in the rocks. And this is not just architecture, but a place of solitude for prayer.
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February 2, 2024
The Georgians told me that David Gareji was given to Azerbaijan, but this is not so!! The Lavra itself works, this well-known rock with cells. However, the passage to them is closed for single visitors. Probably groups can, I don't know. But even so, everything is visible and clear, it is not necessary to climb into them. It is better to go in a group, probably with a guide, so that he tells the story of the monastery. But I liked it anyway. I wanted to hear the desert, its silence. There are two reliquaries with the relics of saints, St. David and St. Dodo of Gareja. The border area, there is an armed border guard, groups can go by agreement to a cell with a source (in the same place in these rocks, and district 26!! there used to be monasteries), they wouldn't let me in alone. There are quite a lot of pilgrims / visitors, the silence of the desert can be destroyed by the cheerful cries of a Georgian family (10-15 people :)), who does not understand what is in the holy place and how to behave here, or maybe this is normal for them, I do not know. In general, to appreciate the asceticism of the monks of those times, it was a useful trip. And of course, to venerate the holy relics, to pray. The landscapes around are very unusual, people call them Martian. The area around is rural and sparsely populated, I mean a few kilometers to the monastery. I really liked the views. If you drive your own car, this is the best option.
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January 28
It's a very beautiful place. I advise you to go here, BUT I urge you to drive along the concrete road without reducing the mileage of the way. Do not repeat my mistakes and do not approach the border with Azerbaijan.
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June 22, 2024
The main attraction of Georgia in my opinion. A must-visit. The beginning of Christianity in the Caucasus, a surprisingly well-preserved antiquity. The visit is free, it is forbidden to launch drones, unfortunately - the border.
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August 30, 2024
Beautiful, quiet, peaceful.
It takes more than an hour to drive from Tbilisi, there is a parking lot, toilet, etc.
The monastery itself is ancient, part of it is closed to the public.
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October 2, 2024
It's very beautiful, I recommend visiting.
Nearby there are very beautiful sandstones or rocks with multicolored layers.
And the monastery itself is very beautiful.
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January 8
It's an amazing place! The views, the nature, the silence, it was January 8, 2025. A scenic way back and forth!
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July 5, 2023
An amazing place in beauty and power. In the past, it was like a mark in the Muscovite Kingdom, only with a powerful spiritual content. Be sure to take a good guide with you, who will plunge into the ancient history of Georgia, tell the legends of this place, which are heavily involved in the events that took place here. On the way here, if you're lucky, grandma will sell you delicious and fresh suluguni and puri for 20 lari in Udabno. They will be nice to have a snack of Kakheti or chacha, sitting at David Gareji...
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August 7, 2024
The monastery is an hour's drive from the main road, but this place, God knows, is worth it. A stunningly beautiful place. It is a pity that the border guards did not allow them to stay there overnight because of the close border with Abkhazia. But I would definitely go back there again
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March 8
A beautiful place, a unique monastery. You should definitely visit.
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November 18, 2023
It is located on the border with Azerbaijan. the border itself and the border guards are not visible. the road is good, very picturesque along the way. Not everything is open (due to territorial disputes with a neighbor). There is a paid toilet, a shop with wine and cheese of local production (inexpensive).
from the parking lot there are stunning views of the striped mountains (similar in color to carpets)
I recommend.
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May 4, 2024
A picturesque road to the monastery, lying near the border with Azerbaijan (border guards were visible). Only a small part of the monastery is freely available to visit, as I understand it due to political problems, but I really liked what I saw.
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April 26, 2024
An interesting place! Unique nature! The road to the monastery runs in places 100 meters from the border with Azerbaijan!The cells are located right in the sandstone mountain. It reminds me of Petra in Jordan! There is a village on the road where the Svans live! You can taste their traditional dish, khachapuri with meat!
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October 14, 2023
One of the most ascetic monasteries, always very quiet. The temple in the rock, the cells of the monks, too. In the temple of the relics of St. David of Gareja and his disciple.
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August 22, 2024
This is an incredible place! The beauty is such that you want to stop and take pictures all the time! It was here that the hermits left, we were in the morning, even before the main influx of tourists, there is such silence that you can hear the rustle of grass. Very beautiful, very unusual, on the way back we met two turtles, they just crawled across the road, so unusual! Just a lot of emotions from everything! If necessary, we will definitely go again!
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October 6, 2023
A cool place with a unique view of the mountains. A very atmospheric place, everything is saturated with antiquity and the life of the Middle Ages. By the way, on the other side of the upper cell is the border of Azerbaijan
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July 3, 2024
Unfortunately, in 2024, movement around the monastery is limited. You can get around in 5-10 minutes at a very slow pace.
Realizing that the monastery is active, I have no complaints
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August 8, 2023
An interesting historical site. Unfortunately, the inspection is limited to a small area, as knowledgeable people explained that the border with Azerbaijan runs along the top of the mountain. Very good (asphalt) road to the monastery with beautiful views.
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May 31, 2024
It's a great place. It's breathtaking! The road to the monastery is excellent. It's definitely worth getting here.
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October 5, 2024
An amazing place with amazing energy
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April 23, 2023
A great and beautiful place! I recommend that you definitely visit. It became easier to get there by car, the road to the monastery was paved. On the way, do not forget to stop at the cozy cafe Udabno Terrace.
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April 8, 2024
A stunning monastery. We drove along the ideal mountain roads before him. It's just fascinating inside.
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October 25, 2024
I really liked the road to the monastery and the monastery itself. We stopped by on the way back from Sighnaghi in the afternoon, there were almost no people.
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July 8, 2023
A fantastic place and the road to it. And by all means follow the path to the right of the monastery, heading along it to the left. And by all means take fresh suluguni with mint to Udabno at the Oasis Club. Well, take another one, but you won't find such cheese anymore.
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January 18, 2024
The atmosphere is fire, I want to stay and meet the dawn, be sure to visit 🙌🏻
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September 22, 2024
A very beautiful place, I recommend it, you will not regret it!
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September 23, 2024
Beautiful views, colorful mountains nearby, the border....
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December 5, 2024
A charming place, like the whole of Georgia
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April 17, 2023
The road to this wonderful place is good! Yandex shows the halfway point in the form of a bad road, in fact, there is smooth asphalt all the way to the monastery (we drove, checked in April 2023, drove from Tbilisi via Sagarejo). The monastery is secluded, the nature around is beautiful!
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October 20, 2023
A very beautiful place, go up to the top, there is also a cave and a couple of military border guards
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August 19, 2023
The road itself is no less pleasant than the monastery, if you drive on asphalt. A historical place.
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November 25, 2024
A beautiful place
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January 31, 2024
An old monumental monastery on the border with Azerbaijan.
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May 19, 2023
A beautiful road to the castle, the location is small, as I understand it, half of the castle is in Azerbaijan and half in Georgia, but I did not see the border guards...
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July 17, 2023
The road is terrible there. But it's very beautiful there. And most importantly, Azerbaijan is nearby
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September 16, 2024
I recommend visiting 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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May 17, 2024
Excellent road to the Monastery. The place is very fascinating
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September 26, 2023
The insanely beautiful road to this place and it itself is impressive!)
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July 29, 2024
It's a very interesting place.
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October 22, 2023
The place is very quiet and colorful , but it 's a long way to go to it .
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