Asklemmy

If I'm honest it's breathtakingly beautiful. I've been around most of Europe and some of Asia, and the only comparable places are Swiss Alps and the Himalayas; however, Georgia is much cheaper than the former and more developed/safe than the latter. It's also quite tiny but heterogeneous: within a day's drive you can go from (slightly underwhelming) Black Sea through amazing forests into wild mountains, back down to vineyards and sunflower fields, through a volcanic plateau with otherworldly landscapes and then bathe in hot springs under the starry sky. There's an insane density of buildings and ruins from dozens of different cultures and epochs, all the way from bronze age to medieval Georgian to Russian colonial style to Soviet-era constructivism. I don't drink wine but I've heard that it's quite amazing too. My only gripes is that the country might be backsliding into authoritarian rule, and the locals are welcoming but "conservative" (bigoted) to the extent that it's straight up dangerous for LGBT people to visit.