Zekari Pass
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Zekari Pass (Georgian: ზეკარი, also Zikar Pass in some older texts) is a 2,182-metre-high (7,159 ft) mountain pass located in Georgia's[2] Meskheti Range on the border of the Imereti and Samtskhe-Javakheti regions. Though used as a 'caravan' route since times immemorial, the road across the pass remains unpaved, suitable only for off-road vehicles and is usually impassable from October to June.[3]
| Zekari Pass | |
|---|---|
 Zekari Pass | |
| Elevation | 2,182 m (7,159 ft)[1] |
| Range | Meskheti Range |
| Coordinates | 41°49′39″N 42°51′43″E |
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In August 1893, British parliamentarian and explorer H. F. B. Lynch took this route between Kutais and Akhaltsykh, expounding: "I doubt whether there exists in the nearer Asia a standpoint which commands a prospect at once so grand and so instructive as that which is unfolded from the summit of the Zikar Pass."[4]
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