Day 1

            Arrive in Kyiv. Meet and greet at the airport

            Transfer from the airport to the hotel in Kyiv

            Check-in to the hotel

            Kyiv city tour including inside visit to St.Sophia Cathedral (duration: 4 hours)

Sights to visit during the tour:

“Volodymyr`s Old Town” - the place were Prince Volodymyr the Baptist had founded his Kremlin and built the first Christian church in Kyivan Rus. See the copy of the foundation of the Church of Tithe, panorama ground (a marvellous view of the Lower Old Town called Podil).

St. Andrew’s Church designed by famous architect Rastrelli who was a court architect of Russian tsarina Elizabeth (outside visit). Open-air souvenir market is located nearby.

The Golden Gate of Kyiv - outside visit

University building, St. Sophia Cathedral, Opera House, Khresschatyk Street, Arch of Friendship, Monument to the founders of the Kyiv city.

            Time at leisure

            Overnight: Hotel in Kyiv

            Guide: 4 hours

            Transport:Transfer + 5 hours (including 1 service hour)

Day 2

            Breakfast at the hotel

            Check-out from the hotel

            Lunch

14:00 City tour to Kyiv Cave Monastery including visit to the Golden Treasury Museum and Museum of Microminiatures    

(duration: 4 hours)

Kyiv Cave Monastery is an Orthodox monastery in Kyiv. The Cave Monastery is rich in architectural monuments. Thirty-seven of them were built before the 20th century. Its best-known sacred objects were the relics of its saintly monks. The caves (some of them dating from the Neolithic period) in which they lived and were buried, and from which the monastery's name is derived, form two underground labyrinths of tunnels, cells, and catacombs excavated in soft sandstone and loess.

Golden Treasury Museum. The Museum contains a collection of Scythian Golden Jewellery (very similar to the collection that is exhibited at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg - but more exciting because of the unique item - the Golden Pectoral (neck lace) of Scythian Tsars with sophisticated carving - weighting over 3 kilos.

The Museum of Microminiatures. Mukolay Syadristy has created about 100 miniatures with instruments he made himself. At first, he took a whole year to create one or two miniatures. Now, it takes him nearly a month of painstaking work to create one piece - whether it is baby swallows inside a nest made of half a poppy seed, or a red rose on a green stem 0.05 millimeter (0.002 inch) thick, inside a human hair that has been polished so thoroughly that the flower can be clearly seen through it.)

            18:00 Time at leisure

            20:40Transfer to the train station. Train departure to Odesa at 21:34

            Overnight: Train Kyiv – Odesa

            Guide:4 hours

            Transport: Transfer + 5 hours (including 1 service hour)

Day 3

            07:09 Arrival in Odesa

            Transfer from the train station to the hotel

            Early check-in to the hotel

            Breakfast at the hotel

            10:00 Morning Odesa city tour (duration: 3 hours) 

Odesa is a modern city and a major seaside resort which rises in tiers above a gently curving bay. The home of the Black Sea Shipping Co. (worlds largest), this harbour city is also the southern sea gate of the former USSR through which pass many passengers and a huge amount of cargo. Here, the famed Potemkin Staircase rises 460 feet from the sea to the upper levels of Odesa. In 1994, this city with around one million inhabitants, celebrated its 200th anniversary.

Opera House with this kind of grandeur, its obvious why critics rank the Theatre as the 2nd most beautiful opera house in Europe, after the Viennese Opera House, Outside of the Odessa Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Inside of the Odesa Theatre of Opera and Ballet. The Opera House was built in 1887 by architects F. Felner and H. Helmer.

            Lunch in a local restaurant

            Time at leisure

           *Optional Cultural program (performance in Odesa Opera and Ballet House or Philharmonic Hall)

           Overnight: Hotel in Odesa

           Guide: 3 hours

           Transport: Transfer

Day 4 

           Breakfast at the hotel

           Check-out from the hotel

           10:00 Tour to Arcadia resort area including visit to wine factory and wine tasting

           This tour will bring you to one of the Odesa Champagne factories: “Odesa”, ”French Boulevard" or to the Tairov wine

           Institute   

           14:00 Lunch at a local restaurant

           15:00 Excursion to the Fine Arts Museum, a former residence of Pototsky family, followed by a visit to the underground 

           Grotto 

Fine Arts Museum houses one of the largest collections of Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet masterpieces in the Ukraine. The collections of the Museum boast magnificent and artistically unique works of great masters reflecting the development of national art from icon-painting of the 15th-18th centuries to contemporary painting, graphic art, sculpture, and decorative and applied art.

           16:40 Transfer to the train station

           Train departure to Simferopol at 17:50

           Overnight: Train Odesa – Simferopol

           Guide: 7 hours

           Transport: Transfer + 8 hours (including 1 service hour)

Day 5 

           06:50 Arrival in Simferopol

           Transfer from the train station in Simferopol to Yalta

           09:00 Early check-in to the hotel

           Breakfast at the hotel

           12:00 Yalta city tour, including visit to Livadia Palace and Massandra palace (duration: 5 hours)

Sites to visit during city tour:

Livadia Palace. The summer home of the last of the Russian Tsars, Nikolai II, and in 1945 home to the Yalta Conference, where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met to re-draw the map of Europe at the end of the war - the Livadia Palace breathes the history of the last 150 years. The palace buildings and extensive gardens overlooking the sea and the bay of Yalta reflect the influence of the original architect, Ippolito Antonovich Monighetti, who was sent from Moscow to Livadia after the estate was bought for Tsar Alexander II in 1861.

Massandra palace is one of the most famous landmarks in Yalta. The Massandra palace has a strange history: Semen Vorontsov, the heir of the famous General Governor of Novorossia, began its construction. The initial design in style of Louis XIII was made by the French architect Bouchar. Later the palatial complex was completed by the Russian architect professor Maximillian Meismacher. The palace was intended to be a residence of Alexander III and became a kind of a hunter's house for the august family of Nicholas II. By the end of its construction the last Russian emperor was already fond of the idea to build his new residence in Livadia and took no interest in the Massandra palace. For a hundred years of its existence the Massandra palace served as a place for relaxation during mountainous walks, later as a residence for the VIP. It experienced the years of oblivion and at last it was opened as a beautiful museum, displaying its splendour to the most welcome guest-tourists from all over the world, who enjoy romantic scenery and architecture.

Optional visit to Massandra Winery

            Lunch at a local restaurant

            Time at leisure

            Overnight: Hotel in Yalta

            Guide: 5 hours

            Transport:Transfer + 6 (including 1 service hour)

Day 6 

            Breakfast at the hotel.

            Check-out from the hotel

           10:00 Day trip to Sevastopol city (including visit of Panorama Museum of Crimean War)

Sites to visit during city tour:

Panorama museum devoted to the first siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855) during the Crimean War (1853-1856). You'll see the only one Panorama in Ukraine, which is the battle painting on the canvas (115 m long, 14 m high), which is not only the canvas but the object plan. The panorama building is situated on one of the Sevastopol highs where nowadays military fortifications of the Crimean War period are being exposed (artillery yards with old Russian cannons).

The Black See Fleet-museum - The first military museum in Russia, founded in 1869. Also we'll explore the Central hill of Sevastopol with 2 monuments - St. Volodymyr cathedral has been built as the burial place of renowned Russian admirals, perished during the Crimean War.

Lunch in Balaklava.

Continue the trip to Bakhchisaray city (ancient city of Crimean khans)

The territory of Bakhchisaray was settled more than 40,000 years ago. In the 15th c. the capital of the Crimean Khanate was established here. The city was constructed by local master builders, Ukrainian and Russian captives, as well as by master builders from Iran, Italy, and Turkey.

Beautiful Khan’s Palace with richly decorated rooms and sophisticated fountains would amaze you with its elegance and splendour.

                19:00 Transfer from Bakhchisaray to the train station in Simferopol. Train departure to Kyiv at 21:25

                Overnight: Train Simferopol – Kyiv

                Guide: 9 hours

                Transport: Transfer + 10 (including 1 service hour)

Day 7 

               14:07 Arrival in Kyiv

               Transport: Transfer (train station - airport)

               Tentative price per person for 7 days Black Sea Tour*: