Why go
Khulo perches at 1,000 meters as Georgia's highest municipal center, a distinction that shapes everything about it. The town served as a crucial administrative and trading post in the Ottoman era, and its remote position preserved a world of wooden houses with overhanging balconies, terraced gardens, and polyphonic singing traditions that elsewhere faded. The real revelation is the 1,700-meter cable car descent to the Zarzma Valley—once the longest Soviet-era cable car, still operating with Soviet machinery and breathtaking views across the Lesser Caucasus. Here, Adjaran mountain culture survives intact: you encounter women in traditional dress, taste high-altitude honey, and walk village lanes unchanged for generations.