Day 1, Kiev
• Arrive to Kiev
• Sightseeing city tour by car (3 hrs.)
Once you visit Kiev, you will forever fall in love with it. The tour will give you an opportunity to become acquainted with 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, the Park of Glory and much more.
• Hotel check-in
• Time at leisure
*Option:
• Night Performance according to the schedule of the Opera House
Day 2, Kiev
• Breakfast at the hotel
• Tour to St. Sofia Cathedral and Kievo-Pechersk Lavra Monastery (3 hrs.)
St. Sophia Cathedral is a cathedral temple of Kiev Metropolis, an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus and a multi-structural complex-museum. The cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first patrimony on territory of Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO along with the Kievo-Pechersk Lavra Monastery complex.
Since Lavra foundation as the cave monastery in 1051 it has been a preeminent center of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe.
• Time at leisure
• Transfer to the train station
• Overnight train Kiev – Odessa
*Option:
• Tour to the open-air museum Pyrohovo Village (3 hrs.)
The museum of Pyrohovo Village was founded in the late 1960s, but almost a decade had passed before it was open to the public. The museum boasts an impressive 40,000 collection of folk costumes, fabrics, embroidery, carpets, ceramics, articles of metal, wood, glassware, musical instruments, paintings, and household articles.
Day 3, Odessa
• Arrive to Odessa
• Meet & greet at the train station
• Sightseeing city tour by car (3 hrs.)
In the 19th century Odessa was the fourth largest city of Imperial Russia, after Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Warsaw. Its historical architecture has been heavily influenced by French and Italian styles. Some buildings are built in a mixture of different styles, including Art Nouveau, Renaissance and Classicist.
• Hotel check-in
• Time at leisure
*Option:
• Night Performance according to the schedule of the Opera House
Day 4, Odessa
• Breakfast at the hotel
• Transfer to the airport / train station
*Option:
• Tour to the 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.
