Legends of Ukrainian Podolia + Kyiv

Day 1

8:30 Arrival in Kyiv. Meeting at the airport. Obtaining visas upon arrival in Ukraine. Transfer to the hotel. Settlement. Breakfast in the hotel. A little time for rest. City-tour in Kyiv: we will start from Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, Bessarabska Square, Khreshchatyk, and Independence Square, Valery Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Mariinsky Park and Palace, Glory Square, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, St. , Golden Gate and other objects of the city of Kyiv. And then we are waiting for Andreevsky Descent and one of the visiting cards of Kyiv - Andreevsky Church. In the buildings along the Kiev Montmartre street, there are art galleries, exhibitions, theaters and art workshops. Numerous Ukrainian souvenir shops are located under the open sky. Lunch at Ukrainian colorful cafe. Departure for an excursion to the Museum of Architecture and Life "Pirogovo". "All Ukraine in one day" - this is how you can characterize a visit to this open-air museum. Here, among the most picturesque landscape, you will be lucky to find out: what is the difference between the Carpathians and Polesie, Podolia and Transcarpathia, etc. Ukrainian huts, mills, churches, household items, handicrafts — all this will reveal the soul of the Ukrainian people for you. You will have the opportunity to look at the spinning potter's wheel, go to the "tavern" or "kulishna", ride horses around the neighborhood, breathe in the clean air of Ukraine! And great photos to remember! Return to Kyiv. Delicious dinner in the cafe of the city. Return to the hotel. Overnight stay.

Day 2

Breakfast in the hotel. In the morning we go on an excursion to National Museum "Chernobyl". On April 26, 1986, the largest man-made radioecological disaster of our time occurred - a nuclear accident at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The purpose of creating the museum exposition is to help humanity comprehend the Chernobyl accident as a real factor in the certainty of the possible death of our civilization, to comprehend the lessons of the tragedy in all spheres of life, to prevent the world from forgetting these lessons, to become a warning to the generations of the next millennium. Many of the materials presented in the museum were published for the first time - documents, maps marked "Secret", photographs. All these unique exhibits, including relics from the exclusion zone (old icons, folk art, local crafts, everyday life of the inhabitants of Ukrainian Polissya), and personal belongings of the liquidators, make us think about the most painful problems of the present, including environmental, social, spiritual losses caused by the disaster. Then tourists will have an excursion to one of the most famous symbols of Kyiv and Ukraine - Monument "Motherland"Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II. The colossal 62-meter statue of the Motherland (102 m with a pedestal) is made of special stainless steel and assembled using a special crane. Memorial Complex "Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II occupies 10 hectares on a hill on the right bank of the Dnieper. It contains a giant bowl of the Eternal Flame, an exhibition of military equipment from the Second World War, as well as post-war years, an alley of the Cities of Heroes. Along the slopes of the Dnieper there is a main alley that goes to the gallery of the Main Entrance leading to the square and the museum building. The sculptures of the gallery personify the heroic defense of the USSR border from the German attack, the horrors of the German occupation, partisan struggle, the labor feat of the rear, the battle for the Dnieper. Lunch at a city cafe. The picture of the day will be incomplete if we do not go to the Kievan Rus park. Ancient Kyiv in the "Park Kievan Rus" is the only and inimitable in the history of mankind the reconstruction and construction of one of the most famous and at the same time the most mysterious medieval city of Eastern Europe - Ancient Kyiv of the 5th-13th centuries, the capital of the great medieval state - Kievan Rus, - in the size of its historical center, known as Detynets of Kyiv or the City of Vladimir. Its architectural image is being reconstructed in full, on a scale of 1:1, taking into account the knowledge of modern science. It also recreates the atmosphere of Kievan Rus.  Dinner at an oriental cafe in the city. Overnight at the hotel. 

Day 3

06:30 Early departure from Kyiv. Moving to Kamenetz-Podolsky. 14:00 Arrival in Kamyanets-Podolsky. Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation in a hotel. Overview uhexcursion "Kamyanets Podolsky - a historical pearl of Ukraine": deep rocky canyon in the city center, Castle Bridge, Peter and Paul and Nicholas Churches, Pottery and Kushnirskaya Towers, Turkish and Armenian bastions, Kamenets Town Hall and Armenian well, Dominican and Trinitarian monasteries, Polish and Russian gates, Peter and Paul Cathedral, Stanislav Augustus Triumphal Arch, Muslim Minaret, Old Castle, New Castle, etc. Free time.

Day 4

Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby. The beginning of the excursion program: "Zhvanets - Trenches of St. Trinity - Khotyn Fortress": With. Zhvanets (a fortress of the 15th-18th centuries and a pillbox on the eve of the Great Patriotic War) - r. Dniester - fortress Trenches of the Mountain of St. Trinity XVII-XVIII centuries. (bastion fortification of the 17th century, the conditional border of the three regions of Podolia, Galicia and Bessarabia, the point of contact of the three administrative borders of the Khmelnitsky, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions, earlier - the state border of the Russian, Austrian and Ottoman empires, between the first and second world wars - the state border of the USSR , Poland and Romania) Moving to the city of Khotyn. Tour of the Khotyn fortress. One of the most significant and significant European monuments of military architecture and bastion fortification is the Khotyn fortress. Near Khotyn, in battles and battles, geopolitical issues of great importance for the Eurasian continent were repeatedly resolved. The walls of its castle, up to 30-40 m high and 5-6 m thick, the ramparts of the bastion fortress with deep scarp ditches, are of great interest to everyone who visits this fortress, picturesquely towering over the Dniester. Moving to Chernivtsi Lunch at a restaurant. Sightseeing tour of the city of Chernivtsi - "Little Paris of the Carpathians": the four main squares of the city (Central, Philharmonic, Theater, Cathedral), Drama Theater. O. Kobylyanskaya, the Cathedral, the former Armenian Catholic Peter and Paul Church (now the Organ Hall), the St. George Church (a wooden church of the 17th century), the Church of St. Nicholas (the original church with twisted domes of the early 20th century) and many other architectural and historical monuments. Continuation of the tour around the main building of the Chernivtsi National University- the former residence of the metropolitans of Bukovina and Dalmatia (an architectural monument of the 19th century). This unique object is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Walk along the pedestrian street O. Kobylyanska (formerly Panska street). Return to Kamenetz-Podolsky. Free time. Overnight at the hotel.

Day 5

Breakfast at the hotel. Historical and ecological excursion program "The Charm of Podolsky Tovtry": Surzhinetsky canyon (mountains on the contrary) - with. Kitaygorod (an amazing combination of cultures - Ukrainian, Polish, Jewish, Russian Old Believers, hypothetically - Chinese, a charming landscape landscape, the ruins of the Pototsky Palace) - Owl Yar (a natural reserve, part of the Podolsky Tovtry National Natural Park) - Bakota (rock monastery XI in healing springs of mineral water, splendor of the Bakota Bay of the Dniester River) Lunch in nature. We offer optional: Boat trip on the Dniester (Dniester Canyon is a geological miracle of nature (the cost depends on the number of applicants). 17:00 Departure to Kyiv. 23:30 - 24:00 Arrival in Kyiv. Hotel accommodation. Overnight stay.

Day 6

Breakfast in the hotel. Airport transfer. End of service. Happy homecoming.

The cost of the program for 1 person in $

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