Why go
Intsra is where the river has carved a secret world through cream-colored limestone, creating a stepped canyon of three natural pools beneath a 20-meter cascade. The waterfall once fed a Soviet-era hydroelectric station—ruins still stand nearby—yet locals have always come here for pilgrimage of a different kind: the shock of cold water on summer skin. The pools, ranging from emerald shallows to deep turquoise chambers, fill hollows where tufa deposits continue their slow, dripping architecture. It is worth the journey because here, unlike Georgia's more famous falls, you will likely share the canyon only with dragonflies and the occasional herder; the swimming is wild and unsupervised, the silence broken only by water striking stone.