Khaishi Hot Springs

Khaishi Hot Springs is a natural thermal spring site in the Georgian-inhabited Khaishi area, associated with the mountain landscape of the Greater Caucasus in the border zone between Russia and Georgia, where bicarbonate-calcium mineral waters emerge in the high-altitude valley landscape of one of the world's most ancient mountain civilisations and one of Europe's most geopolitically complex border regions. The springs are part of the extensive geothermal resources of the Greater Caucasus, where the tectonic collision of the Eurasian and Arabian plates produces intense geothermal activity across the mountain belt, supporting mineral springs from the North Caucasian resorts of Kislovodsk and Pyatigorsk to the Georgian highland spas of Tbilisi and Borjomi. The remote Khaishi valley, with its Svan-related cultural heritage of ancient tower-house villages and the exceptional mountain scenery of the Caucasus main range, provides a deeply historically resonant setting for this natural Caucasian thermal spring resource.