Why go
Sataplia guards one of Georgia's most accessible karst caves, hollowed through Cretaceous limestone 900 meters above sea level. Inside, a 334-meter illuminated passage reveals draperies of stalactites and stalagmites shaped over millions of years—but the reserve's deeper wonder lies above ground. Here, on a protected sandstone outcrop, 200-million-year-old footprints of herbivorous dinosaurs were discovered in the 1930s, preserved where these massive creatures once crossed a Jurassic mudflat. The site combines this paleontological treasure with a glass-floored observation platform jutting over a mist-filled forest canopy, offering views across the Rioni River valley toward the snow-capped peaks of the Greater Caucasus. It is science, prehistory, and landscape compressed into a single afternoon.