Why go
Chesho is one of Tusheti's most intact traditional villages, a cluster of slate-roofed houses and defensive towers perched at 2,080 meters where the Chanchakhovani and Khonistskali rivers meet. Unlike its more visited neighbor Dartlo, Chesho has resisted modern development—no asphalt, no power lines, only the original 19th-century towers built by the Batsburi clan against blood feuds and raids. The village preserves the seasonal rhythm of Tushetian transhumance: families still winter in Kakheti and return each June to these ancestral hearths. Coming here means walking into a living museum of high Caucasian culture, where hospitality remains codified in ritual and the mountains render human ambition properly modest.