Okatse Canyon is a limestone slot with a steel walkway bolted straight into its cliff, hung as much as 140 metres above the gorge floor. The path runs 780 metres along the wall, barely a metre wide, railed on both sides, with grating underfoot that shows the drop the whole way. It went in in 2014; before that the canyon was almost unreachable. The Okatse River cut the slot over millions of years in the Imereti hills of western Georgia. In places the walls close to barely three metres apart, and at a point called Boga they nearly meet overhead while the floor falls a full hundred metres below. Only about two kilometres of the canyon are open; the river runs some fourteen, and its wilder reaches stay closed. It has been protected as a natural monument since 2007 and lies about an hour from Kutaisi.
The canyon shows itself slowly. From the visitor centre at Gordi a stone path winds more than two kilometres through the old Dadiani forest, once a noble family's hunting estate, before the trees drop away. Then the walkway leads out over the drop, swaying faintly in the wind, with cool birdsong-filled air rising from the river below. Where the path rounds the cliff the gorge suddenly opens, and at the far end a platform juts twenty metres into empty air. Down in the shadowed slot the Okatse polishes pale limestone into turquoise pools and low falls. Since the trail opened, the canyon has become one of the busiest sights near Kutaisi, but a few minutes along the walkway the crowds thin and the sound drops to water and wind. Nearby the taller Kinchkha waterfall drops in a long thin ribbon down a towering cliff, and most people pair the two on one trip.