| Zekari Pass | |||||||||
| Map: | Caucasus mountains#Georgia | ||||||||
| Map Size: | 280px | ||||||||
| Label: | Zekari Pass | ||||||||
| Elevation M: | 2182 | ||||||||
| Elevation Ref: | [1] | ||||||||
| Range: | Meskheti Range | ||||||||
| Coords: | 41.8275°N 42.8619°W | ||||||||
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Zekari Pass (Georgian: ზეკარი, also Zikar Pass in some older texts) is a 2182adj=midNaNadj=mid mountain pass located in Georgia's 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.[2]
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."[3]