The Top 20 Natural Monuments in the Lesser Caucasus
Lesser Caucasus’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments in the Lesser Caucasus. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments in the Lesser Caucasus. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: October 7, 2025
The hexagonal basalt columns protrude up to 300 m out of the canyon like huge organ pipes. They were created by the meeting of fire and water.
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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.
The Uplistsikhe cave …
The Uplistsikhe cave …
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Grey-brown, rounded rocks form many chains of hills and cliffs, canyons and ravines, constantly going up and down. The rock is a smooth, hard sand-gravel-marl; somewhat similar to the Elbe …
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Soap and jam. A set of attractions like on Krupówki. It's a shame because it's a beautiful place.
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Small but perfectly formed natural lake that was sadly dredged by developers (now evicted) in 2017 but it seems to be recovering. It's popular with locals by day but usually …
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And the monumental monument "Mother Armenia" visible from afar is surrounded by the Victory Park
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Mount Aragats is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Its northern summit, at 4,090m above sea level, is the highest point of the Lesser Caucasus and Armenia. The south peak is 3887m above sea level. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Aragats
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Beautiful place also to drink and eat.
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This place is know to locals as Gyolort. We missed the wildflower season this time but if you're there in June/July it's an amazing blanket of colour after hiking through deep green forest for a couple of hours!
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The path to the waterfall leads through subtropical forest steeply along a ridge.
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