17 Best Hiking Trails in and Around Tbilisi: Discover Hidden Gems & Epic Views

6. Tbilisi Sea Circular

Long but flat, I absolutely love this route.

Northeast of the city center, you have Tbilisi Sea (which is actually a reservoir, and completely unrelated to any oceans, but let’s not get lost in the details).

The perimeter of the place measures in at around 15 miles (24km), so it’s a pretty big walk. But it’s all flat and simple.

I’ve run in it in two hours, so you can walk it in 4. Along the way around the entire perimeter, you’ll pass fishermen, runners, cyclists, pretty views of the water, pretty views of the city, underrated stretches of Tbilisi, and plenty more stuff. For quaint and cute, it’s my favorite walk on this list.

The southern section of the lake is particularly beautiful, and it has lots of brilliant picnic spots.

The finale of this walk is great. If you start from the northwestern part of the lake, you’ll finish back at that same point. And sitting there, you have the Chronicle of Georgia, a strange behemoth of a monument that looms over this part of the city.

Note: In spring and fall, Tbilisi Sea is super pretty. But during (and after) a hot summer, most of the grass and flowers die, and some stretches of the place look horrendously apocalyptic. I learned that by coming here in the middle of a hot August.