An abandoned village; in the 19th century it was used to isolate the sick — to remove them from other villages. According to legend, John the Baptist, displeased with people's behavior at Tskhrakara, fled to the Tusheti village of Hegho (people, it seems, were sacrificing pigs and chickens to him). Until the mid-20th century the feast of the Baptist was celebrated at Hegho alongside the other festivals, and the Tushs knew it as one of the strong and stern shrines. A few decades ago, when Hegho and Tusheti generally emptied of people, several men undertook to carry the Baptist's shrine-stone of Hegho down to the lowland and set it up on the territory of Tskhrakara, where it is known today as the Hegho Baptist shrine.