draws your attention in Tago is the old wooden houses. The twisting narrow paths are also made of wood. Here, you feel like you have travelled through time a hundred years.
For festival and tour lovers there are lots of festivals and interesting tours in Ajara, visited by a lot of foreign tourists from different countries. One of the most famous events is the Black Sea Jazz Festival, which brings together the world’s jazz performers in Batumi every summer. The two-day Rural Tourism Festival “Gandagana” also takes place in Batumi. Various agricultural products and local dishes from different corners of Ajara are presented in Europe Square. “Gandagana” will give you a tour around the villages of Ajara without you having to leave Batumi. It is possible to taste Adjarian food and wine right there, with folk dances and music in the background. There is also a Migratory Birds Observation Festival: an eye-catching scene when more than a million birds of prey fly over the skies of Ajara. It is one of the few places in the world where you can enjoy something like this. Batumi is a favorite destination for music lovers, not just for the jazz- here they can also enjoy the annual International Festival of Classic Music. Every year, in September, Batumi hosts the International Art-house Film Festival “BIAFF,” a real celebration for cinema lovers that offers viewers the year’s best collections of independent films. You can also visit museums in Batumi and
Ajara and take interesting tours in and outside the city. You can devote a day to discovering Old Batumi and, in the framework of a tour, discover a different Batumi with a multicultural history, architecture and urban legends. If you want to get to know modern Batumi, you can take a “domestic tour” into the inner yards of the city: see cats lying in the sun, rows of laundry hanging outside, shoemakers, watch-repairers and stray dogs. In a word, the tour’s goal is to make
you feel like a native of Batumi. We don’t have a single answer to the question “Why should you travel to Ajara?” though we know for sure that those who have not seen it are missing the chance to breathe the sea and mountain air, to enjoy communication with interesting people, to feel the active rhythm, sounds and colors. You can enjoy all these things here every year and it is never late to jump into seaside adventures, regardless of whether you’re traveling alone, with friends or with family: Batumi is your destination.
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