Karst cave.
| Location: | Near Kutaisi. Best visited by taxi from Kutusai (45min from town square), ask for the dinosaur footprints. |
| Open: | All year daily. |
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Karst cave.
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| Light: | electric. |
| Dimension: | L=330m, VR=10m, T=14°C. |
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| Last update: | $Date: 2008/07/01 20:27:47 $ |
| 1925 | most beautiful karst cave of the area discovered by P. Chabukiani, teacher and naturalist from Kutaisi. | |
| 1935 | Sataplia Nature Reserve established. |
Sataplia is a rather small cave, famous for fine speleothems and the dinosaur footprints nearby. The tour enters the through-cave on one hillside, crosses the hill underground and then goes back on the surface past the dinosaur footprints.
This cave is hard to reach and not very much visited by individual travellers. Best is to take a taxi from Kutusai town square which takes about 45min and costs about GBP 5. The caretaker will charge a small flat fee and start the generator. Tours are only in Georgian. The best thing to visit this cave is to book a guided Georgia trip, several tour operators include a day at the Nature Reserve.
The cave is named after Mt. Sataplia (494m asl), an extinct volcano, which is now a Nature Preserve. The preserve was intended to protect the five karst caves of the area and the dinosaur footprints. At the moment there are 200 footprints known, found in two different layer of the Cretaceous limestones. The 30cm long footprints of the lower layer belong to an unknown predator, the 48cm long footprints of the upper layer to an ornitopod herbivore.
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