Day 1, Kiev
• Arrive to Kiev. Meet & greet at the airport
• Transfer from the airport to the hotel
• Hotel check-in
• Kiev City Tour (3 hrs.)
Once you visit Kiev, you will forever fall in love with it. Our sightseeing tour will show you such attractions as St. Sophia Cathedral in (UNESCO World Heritage Site), St. Michael's Monastery, Golden Gate, Khreshchatyk (the shortest main street in Europe), Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and much more.
• Time at leisure
*Option:
• Night Performance according to the schedule of the Opera House
Day 2, Kiev
• Breakfast at the hotel
• Day trip to Chernobyl (including lunch)
The Chernobyl nuclear power station is located 80 km north of Kiev. The unique tour contains visiting the city of Chernobyl, Pripyat and the area of Nuclear power station (Exclusion Zone).
• Time at leisure
Day 3, Kiev
• Breakfast at the hotel
• Hotel check-out
• Tour to the Museum of the Great Patriotic War (2 hrs.)
The memorial complex contains the giant bowl "The Glory Flame", a site with WW II military equipment, the "Alley of the Hero Cities" and the monumental sculpture of the "Motherland" measuring 102 m.
• Time at leisure
*Options:
• Tour to the New Year-Tree decorations factory (5 hrs.)
The factory of the New Year-Tree toys in Klavdievo was the one of two in the USSR for a long period of time. The technology has not changed from the middle of the 20th century. It is still the pure small island of Soviets if you wish to feel the USSR lifestyle.
• Tour to Pyrohovo Village (4 hrs.)
The museum of Pyrohovo Village accumulate a rich collection of over 200 structures, some of which were brought there from various parts of the country. The museum also boasts an impressive 40,000 collection of ethnographic exhibits, among which there are folk costumes, carpets, ceramics, articles of metal, wood, musical instruments, paintings and household articles.
• Transfer to the train station
• Overnight train Kiev - Simferopol
Day 4, Yalta
• Arrive to Simferopol
• Transfer Simferopol – Yalta
• Hotel check-in
• Yalta city tour + Livadia Palace (4 hrs.)
In the 19th century, Yalta became a fashionable resort for the Russian aristocracy and gentry. Lev Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov spent summers there.
Livadia Palace was a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II. The Yalta Conference was held there in 1945, when the palace housed the apartments of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other members of the American delegation.
• Time at leisure
Day 5, Sevastopol, Balaklava
• Breakfast at the hotel
• Hotel Check-out
• Trip to Sevastopol including inside visit of Panorama Museum of Crimean War and Balaklava (7 hrs.)
Sevastopol is an important commercial and naval port as well as an increasingly popular tourist destination. Since its inclusion into the Russian Empire in 1783, the city has faced two legendary sieges (French and British forces during the Crimean War and Nazi German forces during World War II).
Naval museum complex Balaklava is an underground submarine base in Crimea (originally known as Object 825 GTS). Models of warships, various elements of submarines’ armory, naval armaments and ammunition, memorabilia and unique documents are exhibited there.
• Transfer Balaklava – Simferopol
• Overnight train Kiev – Simferopol
Day 6, Kiev
• Arrive to Kiev
• Transfer to the airport / train station
