Russian Vacation. Version 1
Russian Vacation
Version 1
5 days/4 nights
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Day 1 |
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15.00 |
Arrival to Moscow and meeting with the guide at the airport. Transfer to 4* En Moscu Radisson BLU Slavianskaya and check-in. Dinner at the hotel. Free time. Optional excursion «The lights of Moscow» or a visit to a national show (extra charge). |
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Day 2 |
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09.00-10.00 |
Breakfast at the hotel restaurant |
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10.00-12.00 |
Moscow city tour including visit of the main landmarks |
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12.00-13.00 |
Lunch at a restaurant. |
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13.30-16.00 |
A visit to the Kremlin territory and one of the churches and the Sobornaya Square. A walking tour around Alexander Gardens, Manezhnaya and Red Squares. |
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18.00 |
Return to the hotel. Dinner. Free time. Optional visit to the Bolshoi Theater. Opera, ballet. (Extra charge) |
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Day 3 |
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09.00 |
Breakfast at the hotel restaurant. An excursion to Kolomenskoye estate including the tour of the territory and XVII century exposition. You will see the Ascension Church which was included to the World Heritage List by UNESCO. Free time to walk around. |
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12.00 |
Lunch. |
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13.00-16.00 |
Transfer Moscow – Ryazan. |
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17.00 |
Check-in at “V nekotorom tsarstve”. (www.v-nek-tsarstve.ru) Free time. Optional skiing and skating. A visit to biathlon complex (extra charge) |
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19.00 |
Dinner at the restaurant. Nowadays Russian cuisine is considered as one of the most vivid cuisines, where each meal is a special masterpiece of culinary art. Visiting the Russian baths. Learning Russian traditions. (Services of the bath attendant with birch or oak aromatic broom are extra charge) |
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Day 4 |
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09.00 |
Breakfast at the hotel restaurant “V nekotorom tsarstve”. Check-out. |
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10.00 |
Pottery workshop. An experienced master will tell you about clay, its properties and preparing it for work and will teach you basics of working on a potter’s wheel (hands alignment, centering, bottom forming, making a simple form) |
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11.30-12.00 |
Transfer to Solotcha which is called “Russian Switzerland”. Giant pines approach the road. The wind sweeps pine needles and the road goes on and on through swamps and pine forests to the land where mystical forests stand like a solid wall. |
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12.00-12.30 |
A visit to the Nativity Church which was built in 14 century. |
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13.00-14.00 |
Lunch at the restaurant. |
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14.00-14.30 |
Transfer to Ryazan. More than nine centuries in the center of the Russian lands there is an ancient beautiful and unique city of Ryazan. Various monuments of ancient Russian architecture and classical ХV-ХIХ architecture create a unique landscape of the city. Ryazan Kremlin is the landmark of Ryazan and gives it special charm and identity.
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16.00 |
Check in «Old town» hotel (www. hotel-oldtown.ru) |
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18.00 |
Dinner at the restaurant. |
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19.00 |
Visit to the "Vodka" museum with tasting. During the excursion you will learn how the production of strong spirits was developing, what kind of trade people were engaged in it, and where drinks were served. You will taste home-made vodka and national drinks — bread wine or polugar. Try the true Russian mead and kvass, and a wide range of liqueurs. |
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Day 5 |
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09.00 |
Breakfast at the hotel restaurant «Old town». Check-out. |
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10.00-12.00 |
City tour around Ryazan. You will see the main trade city square, called Red line; walk along merchant street and Astrahanskaya street, which is the old route to the south Russian provinces. Also you will see a castle of the 19th century, the Hall of the Nobility, the Theatre square, in the centre of which there is one of the oldest Russian theatres — the Drama theatre. You will visit the Ryazan Kremlin, that was founded in the 11th century. The unique historical and architectural ensemble of the Kremlin with great Old Russian architecture and picturesque landscape is the main decoration of the city. The singing corps is an architectural monument of the middle of the 17th century. You will visit the exposition of the museum «According to grandfather`s custom» and learn the everyday life and holidays of Russians. |
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12.00 |
Lunch at the restaurant. |
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13.00-16.00 |
Transfer to Moscow. Departure. |
Group tour cost per person:
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Board |
10 pax |
20 pax |
30 pax |
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FB |
800 |
600 |
525 |
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BB |
685 |
490 |
410 |
Tour cost for individuals (1-3 pax):
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Board |
1 |
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FB |
1250 |
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BB |
1170 |
The cost includes: accommodation (3-4* hotels), transport (cars, Mersedes minubuses, Higer buses), guide, museums entrance fee, meals according to the programme
Extra charge for individual tourists (per 1 person):
- Excursion «the Lights of Moscow» from 70 euro;
- National show from 50 euro;
- Theatre tickets from 70 euro;
- Skiing and skating – from 4 euro;
- Bath attendant services – from 20 euro;
- Horse riding – from 8 euro;
- Hunting – from 50 euro;
- Fishing – from 25 euro;
- Tubing – from 8euro;
- Aquapark – from 14 euro;
- Night walking tour – from 35 euro;