Skiing is also popular. Borjomi, Bakuriani, Gudauri and Bakhmaro have extremely good natural conditions for development of ski resorts. As for mountain climbing, upper Svaneti is a good place with a big concentration of summits. Forests in Georgia cover more then 920,000 hectares of land, with the variety of trees up to 300. Woods and forest reserves are also considered to be good recreational resource.
Mineral waters play an important part in the complex of sanitary and spa treatment.
There are almost all types of mineral waters and over 2,000 mineral springs in Georgia. The most widespread mineral waters are of the carbon dioxide waters. High thermal properties are characteristic of thermal sulfide, nitric, silicon waters. These waters are used in Tskhaltubo, Tbilisi, Ninisi, Tkvarcheli, Makhinjauri, zekari and Aspindza. To give a full picture of Georgian resort resources the presence of medical mud should be also mentioned here.