Georgia travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Georgia, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Georgia: Tbilisi, Batumi, Kazbegi, Mestia, Kutaisi, Sighnaghi.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Tetanus up to date
- Rabies for a long stay or hiking with stray dogs about
Emergency number
112 for everything
Care for visitors
Good but costly
Better than the region’s reputation. Tbilisi has good private hospitals used to treating foreigners and to being paid in cash or by insurance. Outside the capital and Batumi it thins quickly, and the mountains rely on evacuation.
Tap water in Tbilisi is drinkable and is genuinely good. Stray dogs are everywhere, are tagged and generally friendly, but a bite means rabies prophylaxis. The mountain roads to Kazbegi and Tusheti are the real risk to your health here.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Georgia
TbilisiGeorgiaSulphur baths under a fortress, wine made in clay eggs for eight thousand years, and rents that brought the nomads
BatumiGeorgiaA Black Sea resort of glass towers and old wooden houses, subtropical gardens, casinos, and khachapuri shaped like a boat
KazbegiGeorgiaA church on a hill under a 5,000-metre volcano, at the top of the Georgian Military Highway, three hours from the capital
MestiaGeorgiaSvaneti: medieval defence towers in every village, Europe’s highest inhabited valleys, and a four-day walk to Ushguli
KutaisiGeorgiaGeorgia’s second city and the budget airline gateway: a monastery on the hill, caves and canyons half an hour out, and prices half of Tbilisi’s
SighnaghiGeorgiaThe City of Love on a hilltop in the wine country, walls with twenty-three towers, and the Caucasus across the valley on a clear day