Last updated on 20th August, 2021

WHERE TO GET MAPS


Paper maps

If you are looking for the trekking maps of Georgia, the best place to get some is Geoland store in Tbilisi. It offers maps of most of hiking destinations. Shop is open from 10 am till 6 pm, closed on weekends. Luckily, its hiking maps can be bought also at other outdoor stores such as MPlus.

In Svaneti, you can get solid hiking maps for free at Mestia´s InfoCentre at the main square. Another good place is the souvenir shop at the Seti Square (behind the Koshki café), it sells hiking maps from several publishers (Geoland, Terraquest and so on).

There is also a small enterprise named Hiking maps of Tusheti which, as the name suggests, sells hiking maps of Tusheti. Maps can be bought at Tusheti tower guesthouse in Upper Omalo as well as in Kvemo Alvani village at the shop at the crossroads, from which depart the jeeps towards Tusheti.


Digital maps

If you want to use smartphone for navigation, you can pick from a large number of hiking apps. So far, I wrote a detailed how to setup hiking maps for Georgia walkthrough for the Locus map app. In the future, I would like to describe a few more.

If you want to do some planning via desktop, pretty good hiking maps can be found at the mapy.cz website.

If you are for some reason interested in original Soviet military maps, those are accesible too. However, for a Westerner they can be quite cryptic as they use Cyrillic script. Maps can be accessed here.

Russian mountain enthusiast Mikhail Golubev took these slices and created from them huge map of whole Southern Caucasus. It can be downloaded here.

There is also an Android application containing all military maps mentioned above, it's name is "Soviet Military Maps". It can be installed for free from Google Play.

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