Where in Tbilisi can I get very early morning public transport towards Azerbaijan?

12/2/2018 2:59:06 PM

Take a taxi to the border of Azerbaijan from the airport. Cross the border by foot and there are lots of buses and shared taxis waiting on the Azerbaijani side going to Baku.

5/10/2017 12:25:59 AM

Upon arrival in Tbilisi (04:30 in the morning) I went to the Courtyard Marriott hotel, whose staff has been super helpful to me in the past despite me not staying there. After doing some research, they said there was “unlikely” to be public transport to the border before 11:00

So they got me a taxi to the border for exactly 58 lari (USD 24 or EUR 22), saying that was a pretty good price.

5/9/2017 5:42:38 PM

My wife, native of Tbilisi, suggests that all buses and marshrutkas from Tbilisi to Baku leave from Ortachala. Search around Russian language sites seems to confirm it. (Note: all links below are to Russian language sites.)

This site talks about actually buses, not marshrutkas, that go from Ortachala to Baku.

This site specifically talks about marshrutkas and indicates that the route is from Ortachala to Baku, however this site states 2013 as the date.

This site suggest a couple other options:

  • marshrutka from main Railway station to “Red Bridge” (წიტელი ჰიდი – Tsiteli Hidi), then from there buses to Ganja and Baku
  • bus from Lilo market near Tbilisi airport to Red Bridge, then buses as above
  • marshrutka from main railway station to Marneuli, from there there are buses to Baku.

Finally, that same site suggests that you can take a taxi to the Georgia-Azerbaijan border, which costs about USD $40 ($10 per person, shared ride) – from there, cross the border on foot and take a bus from the Azerbaijani side.

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