Zekari Pass

Zekari Pass is a mountain pass located in Georgia's Meskheti Range on the border of the Imereti and Samtskhe-Javakheti regions. Though used as a 'caravan' route since times immemorial, the road across the pass remains unpaved, suitable only for off-road vehicles and is usually impassable from October to June.

History

In August 1893, British parliamentarian and explorer H. F. B. Lynch took this route between Kutais and Akhaltsykh, expounding: "I doubt whether there exists in the nearer Asia a standpoint which commands a prospect at once so grand and so instructive as that which is unfolded from the summit of the Zikar Pass."