Day 1, Kiev
• Arrive to Kiev
• Transfer airport – hotel
• Hotel check-in
• Kiev city tour (3 hrs.)
Once you visit Kiev, you will forever fall in love with it. You will see such attractions as St. Sophia Cathedral in (UNESCO World Heritage Site), St. Michael's Monastery, Golden Gate, Khreshchatyk (the shortest main street in Europe), St. Vladimir's Cathedral, 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
• Hotel check-out
• Tour to the Museum of the Great Patriotic War (2 hrs.)
The memorial complex contains "The Glory Flame", a site with World War II military equipment, and the "Alley of the Hero Cities". The monumental sculpture of the "Motherland" is measuring 102 m.
• Time at leisure
• Transfer to the train station
• Train Kiev – Odessa
* Option:
• Tour to Pyrohovo Village (3 hrs.)
The museum has a rich collection of over 200 structures, some of which were brought there from various parts of the country. Some exhibits are replicas of typical traditional buildings. The museum also boasts an impressive 40,000 collection of ethnographic exhibits.
Day 3, Odessa
• Arrive to Odessa
• Transfer train station - hotel
• Hotel check-in
• Walking Odessa sightseeing city tour (3 hrs.)
In the 19th century Odessa was the fourth largest city of Imperial Russia, after Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Warsaw. Some buildings in the city are built in a mixture of different styles, including Art Nouveau, Renaissance and Classicist.
• Time at leisure
* Option:
• Night Performance according to the schedule of the Opera House
Day 4, Odessa
• Breakfast at the hotel
• Hotel check-out
• Tour to Odessa Catacombs (3 hrs.)
Rome has its famous catacombs and so does Paris. But the city with the largest network of underground tunnels is undoubtedly Odessa, Ukraine. Its 2,500 kilometers eclipses the 300 kilometers found in Rome and the 500 kilometers in Paris. They were used for various nefarious purposes over the years and as a base for partisans during World War II.
• Time at leisure
• Transfer to the train station
• Overnight train Odessa- Simferopol
Day 5, Yalta
• Arrive to Simferopol
• Transfer train station - Yalta
• Hotel check-in
• Yalta sightseeing city tour + Livadia Palace (4 hrs.)
In the 19th century, Yalta became a fashionable resort for the Russian aristocracy and gentry. Lev Tolstoy spent summers there and Anton Chekhov in 1898 bought a house (the White Dacha) here, where he lived till 1902.
The Yalta Conference was held in Livadia Palace in 1945, when the palace housed the apartments of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• Time at leisure
Day 6, Sevastopol
• Breakfast at the hotel
• Hotel check-out
• Trip to Sevastopol including visit of Panorama Museum of Crimean War and Balaklava (7 hrs.)
The unique geographic location and navigation conditions of the city make Sevastopol a strategically important naval point. Panorama Museum contains an eminent work of battle painting and a monumental memorial to the heroism of the Sevastopol's defenders in the period of the Crimean War of 1853-1856. 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 to the train station
• Overnight train Simferopol - Kiev
Day 7, Kiev
• Arrive to Kiev
• Transfer to the air port \ train station
