Interesting cave massifs in Georgia. Visit the Kruber Cave.

Gagra located in a quiet bay, surrounded by mountains. The territory of the city has been inhabited since ancient times — as early as 20,000 years ago. In the II century BC, Greek colonists founded a small trading colony of Trigliths here. The bulk of the population consisted of Kolkhs and Greeks, who traded first with Greek, and then with Genoese and Venetian merchants, selling them locally produced products - wood, wool, honey and beeswax. The existence of the city in subsequent centuries is evidenced by the monument of early Christian Georgian architecture - Gagrin Basilica (VI-VII centuries), which is one of the oldest examples among the three-nave basilicas common in Georgia.

Russian Russian imperial family member, Prince of Oldenburg, decided at the beginning of the twentieth century that Gagra was to become a resort for the highest nobility - the Russian "Nice". By his decree, a coastal park was laid out, beautiful palaces, a hotel and a restaurant "Gagripshi" were built. Soon the first German tourists arrived here. And in 1912, the Russian Emperor Nicholas II visited Gagra.

In the western part of the Gagra ridge, there is the Arabica limestone massif. There are many karst mines, caves, craters and wells. One of them, the Kruber-Voronya Cave, is the deepest hollow cave discovered in the world (2197 m). It is also called the "Bottomless Basin". Presumably, in the depths of Arabica, other now unknown ultra-deep karst mines and giant cave systems are still hidden.

The waters of the Kruber cave are fed by the shortest river in the world — the Reproa, the source of which is located 18 meters from the sea. Due to the fact that the river flows underground, the Guinness Book of Records does not recognize its right to be called the shortest river in the world.