Why go
The Tago Cable Car is a functioning monument to Soviet engineering audacity, built in 1985 to connect Khulo—one of Georgia's highest towns at 900 meters—to isolated villages across the 700-meter-deep Chorokhi River gorge. Before its construction, villagers faced treacherous footpaths. Today it remains essential transport for locals and a rare opportunity for travelers to experience authentic Soviet-era cable car technology: rust-pocked cabins, manual signal systems, and operators who know every creak of the 1,700-meter span. The 15-minute crossing reveals Adjara's layered world—subtropical foothills giving way to alpine meadows, walnut forests, and stone houses clinging to impossibly steep slopes. This is infrastructure as lived heritage, not museum piece.