Achara - the most popular summer resort in Georgia is a subtropical region on the Black Sea coast boarded with Turkey.

Capital Batumi (390 km from Tbilisi) is one of the main ports of Georgia. 'Modern Batumi is a city of parks with subtropical vegetation.

In the surrounding country there are citrus and tea plantations.

The central part of the city is on an arrowhead of land jutting north into the Black Sea. Achara is covered with the mountain ranges and foothills of the Lesser Caucasus, which protect the coast from cold north winds. The climate along the Black Sea coast is humid and subtropical with average temperature in January (coldest month) of 4-6 °C and in July (hottest month) 20-23 °C.