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Continuing with our soaking recherche of Georgia, Sascha now introduces us to Nokalakevi hot spring, in the northwest of the country.

Wikipedia enlightens us on the relevance of Nokalakevi :

'Nokalakevi (Georgian: ნოქალაქევი) also known as Archaeopolis (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχαιόπολις, literally meaning ancient town) and Tsikhegoji ("Fortress of Kuji"), is a village and archaeological site in the Senaki municipality, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, Georgia'.

Absolutely no mention of hot springs are made.

But Sascha knows better: 

'These hot springs were mentioned by Lonely Planet.  
Drive first to the beach of Nokalakevi (on the left hand side, there is a hotel, the only one in the village). From here, continue the road up for around 1 km, on your right hand side there is a spring sign and a small gravel road that you need to take that leads down to the river. The last part of this way is very rocky and steep, a high clearance car is recommended, otherwise walk the last 200 m down to the river.
You first reach the 2 springs that have boiling temperature and therefore a fence surrounds the hot springs. The thermal water flows into the river on two points'.

Photo:

Two points, two options for soaking:

'Head first to the pools on you left hand side and check if there is some place free.
There are some small pools near the river and the water is only around 37/38° warm. However, warm enough to relax for hours in the small pools. Unfortunately, the pools are not very deep, you must be either very slim or only half of the body is covered by thermal water.
The river invites for a refreshing soak.
Some even flow with the river to Nokalaveki beach'.

 

Or:

'The second option is to climb down the stairs right from the little bar down to the river. 

On your right side, the hot water creates a cascade. Many man-made pools nearby the river can be found, but the hot water comes also from the ground which made the pools to hot by the time of visiting in July'.

Nikita Tiunov at Nokalavaki:

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Stones
As accustomed in the other Georgian hot springs there's little to add / find in the internet. 
The said Lonely Planet lets us in own some info:

'Some 60km from Zugdidi via Senaki, Nokalakevi is a picturesque and historic ancient Colchian royal town and fortress. A tunnel leads down to the Tekhura River from the grassy grounds, and admission includes an interesting archaeological museum. Excavations are ongoing (see www.nokalakevi.org). About 1km upstream on the Tekhura you can take a dip in soothing thermal pools'.

The website Eurasia adds:

'Beyond a house a tiny path leads up to a fort on a hill (as opposed to the citadel, higher up and reached by a jeep track to the north, a pleasant walk of an hour or so each way); at the northern end of a very solid 19th-century girder bridge (for pedestrians and bikes only) across the river are the remains of a 5th-century bathhouse (with three rooms for three different temperatures, and red ceramic heating elements). As in most Georgian forts, there's a tunnel down to the river, to get water during a siege. On the far side of the river is a popular, if stony, beach, and a road leading up into a dramatic gorge with popular hot springs a kilometre or two along. It's possible to stay at the archaeological base if it's not full'.

A youtube find:

 And finally, Thermalsprings.ru jots down the details :

Location: near the Archeopolis Nokalakevi on the right bank of the River Tehura.

Infrastructure: two wells.

Description: Old self-flowing wells, most likely drilled in the 1970s. Pillows of carbonate sediments formed around the wells, which descend along the river terrace to the river bed. Next to the riverbed laid baths of boulders in which you can soak in the warm water.

Water type: pH = 6.9, fresh M = 879 mg / l, T> 62.7 ° C.

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