Telavi Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Marshrutkas to Telavi (6 GEL, 2½ hours) leave Tbilisi’s Ortachala bus station about every 30 minutes from 7am to 6pm. There are also shared taxis (per person 7 GEL) from Tbilisi’s Isani metro station.

Marshrutkas back to Tbilisi go about hourly from 8.30am to 1pm from Telavi’s new bus station (72083; Alazanis gamziri), then more frequently until 5pm from another stop below the petrol station down the street. Shared taxis to Tbilisi wait up the street from the new bus station.

The old bus station (71619; Alazanis gamziri) is through a short alley opposite the new bus station. From here marshrutkas and buses leave for Alaverdi Cathedral (1 GEL, about every 20 minutes, 9am to 6pm), Kvareli (2 GEL, one to 1½ hours, about hourly, 9.30am to 5.30pm), Tsinandali (0.50 GEL, at least hourly, 9am to 4pm) and Sighnaghi (4 GEL, 1½ hours, at 3pm). Taxis wait on the corner of Chavchavadze and Ketevan Tsamebuli just up the street from the bus stations.