Route 6
6. Duisi - Healing waters spring (duration 2.5 houres)
Pankisi gorge is very rich in healing waters of different kind - ferruginous, magnesium, sulphuric. How Kists say: "Our waters work miracles, they cured already many with the heaviest diseases”. The healing waters at entrance to Pankisi gorge are helpful in stomach illness. In place of a spring there is a built in small pool, from which we can take water.
Going from Duisi to Achmeta, you should turn right just before the river by the valley’s end. Attention: road is accessible for off-road cars (4X4) only. Further we cross by car or on foot about 5 kilometers to a former kolkhoz. We turn left then and we go about 1 kilometer. We enter a glade, turn right to a road which leads uphill about 50 meters. The spring is in the gorge on the right side. It is very hard to find this place without our guides’ help.
There is one more spring in the neighborhood of the mentioned glade, however it is used by cows. Kists are planning to restore it to use for peple.
