Free Tbilisi Travel Guide PDF by a Local

Planning a trip to Tbilisi and not sure where to start? I created this free 26-page Tbilisi travel guide PDF to bring together the practical information, local tips, and resources you need to plan your trip in one place.

As a Tbilisi-born travel writer behind Red Fedora Diary, I’ve spent years writing detailed guides to my hometown—from its famous landmarks and food scene to unusual architecture, local neighborhoods, markets, museums, and places that often get overlooked.

This guide gives you a useful introduction to the city and connects you to my more detailed, regularly updated Tbilisi articles whenever you want to dig deeper.

What’s inside my free Tbilisi travel guide PDF?

Practical Tbilisi travel tips: Get familiar with the basics before you arrive, including local customs, common mistakes, useful Georgian words, travel insurance requirements, what to pack, and other things worth knowing.

When to visit Tbilisi: Understand what to expect year-round, with an overview of the seasons, weather, festivals, Easter, Christmas, and New Year celebrations.

Getting to and around Tbilisi: Learn about airport transfers, public transport, taxis, walking, driving, and parking, along with links to my detailed transport guides.

Georgian food & drinks: Get an introduction to Georgian dishes and drinks worth trying, plus links to my regularly updated guides to restaurants, cafés, breakfast spots, vegetarian food, and more.

Georgian wine: Learn the basics of Georgia’s 8,000-year-old winemaking culture, qvevri wine, important indigenous grapes, wine styles, and useful Georgian wine terms to know before ordering a glass or visiting a winery.

Things to do in Tbilisi: Start with some of the city’s essential experiences, then go beyond the obvious with museums, markets, architecture, neighborhoods, Soviet heritage, and other sides of Tbilisi.

Local stories & interesting facts: Discover some of the people, traditions, and details that have shaped the city, from old Tbilisi’s Karachogeli and Kinto to its former horse-drawn trams and famous courtyards.

What to buy in Tbilisi: Find ideas for Georgian souvenirs beyond the usual tourist trinkets, including food, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and locally made products.

What to read, watch & listen to before your trip: Find a small selection of books, Georgian films, podcasts, and other resources that can give you more context about the country before you arrive.

Why download this Tbilisi travel guide PDF?

Tbilisi changes quickly. Restaurants open and close, prices change, opening hours get updated, and new places constantly appear.

Instead of squeezing everything into one PDF that will quickly become outdated, I designed this guide as a starting point for planning your Tbilisi trip.

You’ll get plenty of useful information directly in the guide, while links throughout take you to my more detailed Red Fedora Diary articles. I update those blog posts more frequently than the PDF, so you can check the latest information and recommendations while planning your trip.

And because the guide is a PDF, you can save it to your phone or tablet and keep it handy while traveling.

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