Nazy’s Guest House is an established guest house and adventure trekking enterprise 2.5 hours drive from Tbilisi. It is located in the heart of the beautiful Pankisi Valley in the mountainous region of north-eastern Georgia. It is surrounded by dense foothills and overlooked by High Caucasus mountains. The air is clean and the water is refreshing. This is a perfect place to relax or explore the beautiful natural scenery around Pankisi Valley and nearby High Caucasus mountains. Nazy’s Guest House offers adventure treks from Pankisi Valley to Tusheti. The trek is by horse or by walking accompanied by an experienced local guide. We offer mountain bike hire services and tours for guests. Guests can hire excellent quality mountain bikes for exploring Pankisi Valley at leisure or go trail-blazing into the High Caucasus Mountains. Nazy’s Guest House offers cooking classes in traditional Georgian and Kist cuisine. This is a great opportunity to learn how to prepare and make delicious dishes. We have our own vegetable garden, which provides for most of our needs and the produce is organically grown. Our guests can have a tour around our vegetable and fruit garden and pick fresh vegetables and herbs they will use as ingredients. One of the most exciting attractions in the Pankisi Valley is seeing the mystical ritual of Zikr, which is performed by local Kist women every Friday in a local mosque. Zikr is the name of devotional remembrance in Islam in which short phrases or prayers are repeatedly recited. Nazy's Guest House can arrange for guests to attend women's or men's Zikr in a mosque, where they can meet the participants and watch the Zikr. Nazy’s Guest House is situated in Jokolo village in the Pankisi Valley, in the mountainous region of north-eastern Georgia. This small region is home to the small Kist community and their village settlements. Pankisi Valley is located in the Akhmeta district in the Kakheti region, which borders Ingushetia and Chechnya to the north, Dagestan and Azerbaijan to the east. Pankisi Valley can be reached easily by car or taxi from Tbilisi in 2.5 hours (via the Gombori Pass) or by minibus/marshrutka in 3 hours on the same route. The road distance is about 143 kilometres. The main road from Tbilisi heads east then climbs north over the Gombori Pass (1650 metres) and descends through the Gombori mountain range heading north-east to Telavi .From Telavi the Akhmeta-Batsara road runs north-west to Jokolo. A shared taxi can be hired from Tbilisi to Jokolo for 50 GEL (carrying maximum of 4 persons). The price is 13-15 GEL per passenger. The taxi point is located in Isani, in the eastern part of the city. Pankisi Valley is easily reached following the Akhmeta-Batsara Road and is located 40 minutes’ drive from Telavi, the administrative center of Kakheti. Many travellers visit and stay in Pankisi on their way to and from Tusheti, Lagodekhi and Signaghi, and helps to break up the journey coming from and going to Tbilisi. It is suitably located for getting to all main attractions in Kakheti making it a great base for short or long stays. Pankisi Valley is situated just south of Tusheti and Khevsureti making it perfect for walking and horse-riding enthusiasts to explore and enjoy a range of spectacular landscapes from mountain meadows, alpine and sub-alpine, to bare rock and stone. It is possible to organise multiday walking or horse-riding treks from Pankisi Valley to Tusheti and Khevsureti from late June to early October. Among Pankisi Valley’s many attractions is the mighty Alazani River, which flows down from the main High Caucasus ridge on the Russian-Georgian border into the gorge and through the valley, eventually reaching Azerbaijan in the east. It provides opportunities to do fishing and tyre-rafting with local people, and a perfect place for kayaking and white-water rafting too. Exploring around the village settlements and forested foothills there are hidden ruins of ancient stone houses, churches and monuments waiting to be discovered, each telling the story of Pankisi Valley’s early settlers and how they lived. Ancient artifacts dating back to the Bronze Age found in the valley are exhibited in the Ethnographic Museum in Duisi, Pankisi Valley’s main administrative village. Pankisi Valley is a great place to promote relaxation and restore health, which is why many tourists love it here. There is no noise or light pollution in the valley and the air is clean and fresh. The water is refreshingly tasty and abundant everywhere. Visitors can enjoy therapeutic springs in the mountains and eat the finest organic food grown at home. The peace and tranquility of rural village life in Pankisi Valley is a treasure for those wanting to get a break from the chaos and pollution of towns and cities. The maze of lanes in the sleepy villages, running streams, cool forests, green meadows and riverbank, offer a variety of places for gentle exercise and contemplation while watching horses, cows, sheep, geese and turkeys graze. For the active and adventurous there are many trails to explore the high mountain pastures, waterfalls and wildlife. Taxis can be arranged for guests to get to and from Tbilisi and Jokolo in Pankisi Valley, as well as pick-up/drop-off to and Tbilisi International Airport or other locations in Tbilisi city. Pankisi Valley is known for its love of horses and horse-riding, and tourists can experience short or long horse-trek with our local guides. This region is also rich in wildlife including roe deer, chamois, wild boar, brown bear, wolf, lynx, jackal, red fox and badger. There are 60 species of birds including wood-pigeon, thrush, blackbird, raven, gold finch, several kinds of woodpecker, bearded vulture, griffon vulture, black vulture, goshawk, sparrow hawk, golden eagle and kestrel.