Sukhumi Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Taxis for the 20-minute ride from Zugdidi to Abkhazia’s southern border at the Enguri (or Inguri) River cost 10 GEL. At the frontier you pass a Georgian guard post and a Russian peacekeepers’ post, before crossing the bridge to the Abkhazian border post on the far side (keep an eye on your belongings here). Most people crossing here are Georgian IDPs returning to tend their properties in the Gali area.

From the border you can take a marshrutka (R10, 20 minutes) or a shared taxi (R40) on to Gali, 15km northwest.

You may also find vehicles going through to Sukhumi (R150). Marshrutkas and buses (both R100, two hours) leave Gali for Sukhumi up to about 11am.

From Sukhumi’s bus station (ulitsa Dzidzaria), in the northwest of town, buses run northwest to Novy Afon (R20, 45 minutes), Gagra (R100, two hours), and the Psou border crossing (R100, 2½ hours), about every half-hour up to 11am, then hourly. The first bus south to Gali leaves at 10am.

Taxis are easy to find.