Why go
Borjomi is the sacred source of Georgia's most celebrated export—mineral water so prized that it graced tables from the Russian imperial court to Soviet Politburo dachas. The springs rise naturally warm and carbonated from deep volcanic strata, their distinctive sulfur-bicarbonate taste bottled since 1890. Nicholas II's cousin, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich, built a palace at nearby Likani; Stalin kept a private reserve. Today you wander the same forested gorge where Romanov princes strolled, drinking directly from the ornate glass pavilions where the water emerges at 38°C—unfiltered, unbottled, and free. The park's trails climb through pine and beech to panoramic ridges over the Mtkvari Valley, a landscape unchanged since the water first made Borjomi synonymous with Georgian abundance.