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The Top 10 Caves in the Lesser Caucasus

Looking to visit a cave in the Lesser Caucasus on your next adventure? To help you better plan your next outdoor experience, we’ve collected Lesser Caucasus’s 10

best caves for you. Based on the experiences of other users, each is a recommendation you know you can trust — so you can better plan your next adventure.

Last updated: October 8, 2025

Vardzia Cave Monastery

This impressive cave town was carved into a 500m high rock face in the 12th century. The builders drove deep caves into the rock, which were connected by tunnels, stairs, …

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Uplistsikhe (Georgian: უფლისციხე [upʰlistsʰiχɛ]; literally, "the lord's fortress") is an ancient rock-hewn town in eastern Georgia, some 10 kilometers east of the town of Gori, Shida Kartli.





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There are narrow planks and ropes that help you reach the caves. To go out you can either take the same way back or you can climb the boulders up and make a shortcut.

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Not far from Gori lies the ancient cave city of Uplistsikhe. People settled on the plateau as early as the Bronze Age. The fortress city was founded in the 6th …

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Ancient city carved into the rock accessible from the cemetery of Gori with a fun dirt road. Watch out for thorns!

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Is this to where we owe the art of winemaking? Archaologists from Europe and Armenia have uncovered 6,000 year-old winemaking artifacts in this cave complex, still an active archaeological site …

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Monastery carved into the rock in 1185 at the behest of Queen Tamara. Today it can be visited with an entrance ticket and it is truly impressive. Don't miss the frescoes.

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The Armenian craftsmanship of the khachkar can be seen in the rock walls of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Areni bird cave with excavations. You can see remnants of wine processing from approx. 3000 years and remnants of old grapevines with an approximate age of approx. 6000 years.

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Tiny chapel/hermitage, part hewn from the cliff and part built from basalt blocks. It's fun to get to as well!

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