«Feel yourself Russian. Siberia & Russia»
Date of Travel: April 2016 – Oсtober 2016
Group Size: 15 pax + 1 FOC up to 20 pax + 1 FOC
15 + 1 – 3055 US Dollars per person
17 + 1 – 2985 US Dollars per person
20 + 1 – 2875 US dollars per person
Additional payment for accommodation in sgl. Room – 450 US Dollars
30% discount for children from 5 till 12 years old and from 5 years with extra bed if necessary
SUGGESTED ITINERARY:
DAY 01: flight to the destination
DAY 02: MOSCOW – IRKUTSK
Arrival in Sheremetyevo International Airport
Transfer to restaurant for lunch
Panoramic city tour with main sightseeing with opportunity making pictures (Sparrow Hills, Poklonnaya Hill, VDNKH, Christ the Savior Cathedral)
Dinner at restaurant
Back to airport for flight to Irkutsk
DAY 03: IRKUTSK
Arrival in Irkutsk Airport
Transfer to the Hotel Courtyard Marriott ****
Free time at the Hotel, relaxing
Lunch at the restaurant of the city
Sightseeing tour
Shopping tour
Dinner at the restaurant – Russian food
Overnight in the Hotel
DAY 04: IRKUTSK – BAIKAL LAKE – IRKUTSK
Breakfast at the hotel
Excursion Tour to Baikal Lake
Visiting of the village Listvjanka
rustic lunch/picnic on the beach of Baikal lake with traditional fish Omul
Boat trip on the Baikal lake
Dinner in a Russian family in original Russian wooden house Dacha
Transfer to the hotel
Overnight in the Hotel
DAY 05: IRKUTSK – NOVOSIBIRSK
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to Irkutsk Airport for flight to Novosibirsk
11:15 Arrival in Tolmachevo Airport
Panoramic city tour with breaks for the making pictures
Lunch at the restaurant of the city
The tour to the Academcity — The academic campus with visiting of the Transsibirien Museum
(Museum of the trains open air)
Visiting of the Museum of wooden architecture Taltsy
Dinner at the restaurant of the Hotel
Transfer to the Hotel Comfort****
Overnight in the Hotel
DAY 06: NOVOSIBIRSK – EKATERINBURG SIBERIAN TRAIN EXPRESS
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the railway station
09.00 a.m. depart to Ekaterinburg
The day in the train
Lunch and dinner in the train
DAY 07: EKATERINBURG
06.00 a.m. arrival to Ekaterinburg
Transfer to the hotel for breakfast, Accommodation at the Hotel Park Inn ****
Then, continue for sightseeing Tour to the border of Europe and Asia, visiting the Museum of the border of Europe and Asia
Lunch at the restaurant of the city
City tour with visiting of the Church of the Ganina Yama (A place of remembrance of the execution of the Royal family)
Dinner at restaurant
Transfer to hotel
Overnight in the hotel
DAY 08: EKATERINBURG — MOSCOW
Breakfast at hotel
Transfer to airport for flight to Moscow
Arrival in Sheremetyevo Domestic Airport
Direct transfer to restaurant for having lunch – Indonesian restaurant
Sightseeing tour to Moscow Kremlin Complex:
Visit the Armoury Chamber
Visit Architectural complex of the Cathedral Square (the Assumption cathedral, Archangel’s cathedral, Annunciation cathedral, the Church of Laying Our Lady’s Holy Robe, the Patriarch’s Palace, the Faceted Chamber, Golden Tsarina’s Chamber and churches of the Terem Palace, the Ivan the Great Bell-Tower complex)
Visit the Lenin Mausoleum
Visit Moscow Metro Subway
Boat trip on the Moscow River on a Luxury Radisson Royal yacht — dinner on boat
Transfer to hotel
Overnight at hotel
DAY 09: MOSCOW – ST. PETERSBURG SAPSAN
Breakfast at hotel
Excursion tour to Kolomenskoye (visit Wooden Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Kolomenskoye Park)
Lunch at restaurant (Chinese restaurant)
Shopping at Arbat Street (minimum shopping time is 2 hours)
Dinner at restaurant – Tai or Indonesian restaurant
Transfer to train station for Sapsan train to St. Petersburg
Arrival in St. Petersburg, transfer to hotel
Overnight in St. Petersburg
DAY 10: ST. PETERSBURG
Breakfast at hotel
Tour to Petrodvorets: Visiting of Peterhof Summer Palace & Park
Lunch at the restaurant in Petrodvorez — Russian food
Return to the city
Visiting of the Hermitage
Visiting of gift shop
Dinner at the restaurant (Indonesian restaurant)
Visit Opera & Ballet
Overnight in Hotel
DAY 11: ST. PETERSBURG
Breakfast in Hotel
City tour with Visiting of Peter Pauls Fortress, St. Isaac’s Cathedral and Church of the Savior on Blood
Lunch at the restaurant of the city (Chinese restaurant/ Russian food)
Tour to Pushkin (Visit Catherine Palace & Park)
Transfer to the airport for flight to Amsterdam
End of service
St. Petersburg
Expected 4* hotels – Moscow Hotel, Asteria Hotel, Courtyard by Marriott St. Petersburg, Holiday Inn St. Petersburg, Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, Radisson Sonya and similar
Moscow
Expected 4* hotels — Izmailovo Alfa, Izmailovo Vega, Izmailovo Delta, Novoslobodskaya Novotel, Holiday Inn Suschevsky, Holiday Inn Lesnaya.
The tour price includes:
- Placement in hotel 4 * , with breakfasts. – twin room/dbl. room
- Train tickets according the program – the 1 Class / Sapsan
- Air tickets according the program
- Transport service according to the program
- Transfers from the airport / in the airport, from/to railway station
- English speaking guide service in the tour program
- Meals — full board and lodging in the city or hotels restaurants – Indonesian food / Russian food/ Chinese food/Tai food – special food for every day
- Entrance tickets to the museums included in the tour program.
- Boat trip on the Moscow river on a Luxury Radisson Royal yacht with dinner on the board
- 01 bottle of mineral water daily
- Porter service in railway stations – according the program
- Porter service at hotel all cities
- Registration fee in Russia
- Visiting of Mariinskiy theater in St. Petersburg – Opera or Ballet (according the schedule)
- Parking fees, toll fees, permit fees and taxes fees