10-Day Türkiye & Georgia Food Tour: Trabzon, Rize, Batumi, Kutaisi & Tbilisi

After breakfast, explore selected streets and food shops in central Trabzon. Your guide introduces ingredients commonly used in local cooking, with tastings arranged along the way.

Continue to a local kitchen for your first hands-on workshop. Help prepare a seasonal menu that may include a cornmeal-based dish, vegetables, beans or a regional pastry.

Enjoy the lunch you have prepared together.

The afternoon includes a relaxed cultural walk, followed by free time to browse, enjoy coffee or return to your hotel.

Overnight: Trabzon
Meals: Breakfast and workshop lunch

After breakfast, travel along the coast to Rize.

Visit a tea garden and meet a local grower. Learn about cultivation and the work involved in selecting and collecting the leaves. Tea picking may be offered if harvesting is underway and the host can accommodate the group.

Continue to an arranged tea producer visit. Observe the stages operating that day and enjoy a guided tasting.

After lunch featuring regional dishes, take a short walk or stop at a coastal viewpoint before checking in to your hotel.

Overnight: Rize
Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Depart after breakfast and travel towards the Sarp/Sarpi border.

Complete border formalities before continuing to Batumi. Transport and guiding arrangements may change at the crossing; these will be confirmed before departure.

Once in Batumi, take a break for lunch at your leisure and check in to your hotel.

Later, enjoy an introductory walk through the old town and along a section of the seaside promenade. Gather for a Georgian welcome dinner in the evening.

Overnight: Batumi
Meals: Breakfast and dinner

After breakfast, visit selected food shops or a local market with your guide. Learn about ingredients used in Georgian cooking before joining a practical workshop.

With your instructor’s help, prepare a small menu that may include Adjarian-style khachapuri and a seasonal salad or vegetable dish. The final menu will depend on the host and dietary requirements.

Sit down to enjoy your workshop lunch.

The afternoon is free for a seaside walk, cafés or independent exploration.

Overnight: Batumi
Meals: Breakfast and workshop lunch

Leave Batumi after breakfast and travel to Kutaisi, with comfort stops along the way.

Visit a regional food producer or small artisan business, subject to host availability. The experience may focus on bread, cheese or preserves, with a demonstration and tasting.

Continue to Kutaisi and enjoy a guided orientation walk through the city centre.

In the evening, share a hosted regional dinner at a selected family-run restaurant or guesthouse. Hear about the dishes and the traditions behind them.

Overnight: Kutaisi
Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Begin with a visit to Kutaisi’s market, subject to opening arrangements. Browse seasonal produce, herbs and other local ingredients while your guide helps explain how they are used.

Continue to a local kitchen for a cooking session featuring western Georgian dishes. Help prepare a seasonal menu, then enjoy lunch with your host.

In the afternoon, visit Bagrati Cathedral and enjoy a relaxed cultural walk. The rest of the day is free.

Overnight: Kutaisi
Meals: Breakfast and workshop lunch

After breakfast, depart for Tbilisi.

Stop in Mtskheta for a guided cultural visit, including Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, subject to access and religious observances. Enjoy free time for lunch and a short walk through the town.

Continue to Tbilisi and check in to your hotel.

If arrival time permits, take an introductory neighbourhood walk before an evening at leisure.

Overnight: Tbilisi
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, explore selected parts of Tbilisi’s historic centre. Walk through the streets around the old town and Abanotubani, pausing for photographs and stories along the way.

Join a guided tasting walk featuring a selection of Georgian specialities. Tastings are intended as introductions rather than a full lunch, so there is free time to choose your own meal.

The afternoon is yours to browse local shops, return to a favourite café or relax.

In the evening, gather for a farewell dinner accompanied by a short Georgian music performance, subject to venue confirmation.

Overnight: Tbilisi
Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Enjoy breakfast before checking out.

Transfer to Tbilisi International Airport according to your flight schedule.

Meals: Breakfast