Kizhi + Valaam + Solovki! (8 days)2007

Moscow – Petrozavodsk – Kizhi – Sortavala – Valaam – Shuya – Kivach – Medvezhyegorsk – Zalavruga – Kem – Big Solovetsky Island – Moscow The legendary program of domestic tourism this year marks 8 years. On the tourist map of the country since 1999. For the first time in one combined tour, a visit to three “pearls” of Russia. Grade 1 diploma. Professional award in the field of tourism "Route of the Year" in the nomination "Route - 2000 - Russia". Moscow – Petrozavodsk – Kizhi – Sortavala – Valaam – Shuya – Kivach – Medvezhyegorsk – Zalavruga – Kem – Big Solovetsky Island – Moscow The legendary program of domestic tourism this year marks 8 years. On the tourist map of the country since 1999. For the first time in one combined tour, a visit to three “pearls” of Russia. Grade 1 diploma. Professional award in the field of tourism "Route of the Year" in the nomination "Route - 2000 - Russia". (Tour history: page 1, page 2). The undoubted advantage of the tour is its organization: with a large number of excursions and, of course, a large geography of travel, tourists on the route are placed only in two places and are "freed from the daily tedious collections of things.". Day 1: Departure of the group in the evening from the Leningrad station. Day 2: Arrival in Petrozavodsk. Breakfast. Transfer to the boarding house "White Keys". The greatness of the group: bread and salt and the famous Karelian balm from the founder of the city of Peter 1. Placement. Sightseeing tour of the city "From the history of Petrozavodsk". Excursion on a walking comfortable ship "Onega Pearl". A small fascinating ecological journey to the Karelian forest, where you will find a safe, full of emotions and impressions rafting on the Shuya River. Picnic in the woods by the fire. Day 3: Breakfast. Transfer to the city of Sortavala by bus. Transition on Lake Ladoga by the Valaam Fleet ship to Valaam Island. Arrive at Monastery Bay. Sightseeing tour of the central estate of the monastery with a tour of the Savior-Transfiguration Cathedral, chapels, cell buildings, outbuildings, old brotherly and hegumen cemetery. Church chants concert. Lunch at the monastery refectory. Transition to Nikon Bay. Excursion to the famous hermitages of Balaam: Resurrection, where in the lower temple there is a similarity of the cave of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, and the Gethsemane hermitage. Return to Sortavala. Transfer by bus to Petrozavodsk. On the way, visit the memorial "Worshipful Cross", established in memory of the participants of the Winter War - 1939-1940. Arrival in Petrozavodsk. Day 4: Breakfast. Visit to the unique private gallery "Doll House". Departure on the "comet" to the island of Kizhi on Lake Onega (1 hour 20 minutes on the way). Excursion program to the world-famous museum-reserve with a visit to the Pokrovsky Church and ethnographic expositions. Dinner. Day 5: Breakfast. Departure by bus to Kem. Itinerary information. Visit the largest plain waterfall in Europe Kivach and the Museum of Nature. Inspection of the arboretum of Karelian birch. Moving to Medvezhyegorsk. Lunch at the cafe. Moving to the town of Zalavruga near White Sea. Excursion "White Sea petroglyphs". Inspection of unique cave paintings (petroglyphs) of the Neolithic era (1U thousand BC). Arrival in Kem. Hotel accommodation. Day 6: Breakfast. Transition on the White Sea to the Solovetsky archipelago. Arriving at Wellbeing Bay. Excursion programmes: (1) “History and architecture of the Solovetsky Monastery: territory, cathedrals, walls, towers, necropolis”; 2) \"Reference and conclusion on Solovki from Ivan the Terrible to Joseph Stalin\". Lunch at the cafe. A walk to the unusually picturesque shore of the White Sea, where you will see "danced" Solovetsk birches and "labyrinths" - a monument of culture of prehistoric civilizations. Return to Kem. Day 7: Breakfast at the hotel cafe. Transfer to the train station. Departure to Moscow. Day 8: Arrival in Moscow at the Leningrad station in the morning. Special section: corporate tours Prices and availability of places (Kizhi + Valaam + Solovki! (8 days)) The cost is given in rubles per person for the ride Cost of transport services: (railway + ship) june coupe - from 5390 rubles. + 990 rubles., july - from 5790 rubles. + 990 rubles., from july 26 to august - 5990 rubles. + 990 rubles., september - from 5490 rubles. + 990 rubles.) Dates of arrivals Double triple room surcharge 1 seat. Supplement commission agencies note Brief description of accommodation facilities: Boarding House "White Keys" Hotel "Primor" (Kem) Hotel "Kem", Kem http://www.orfey.net/scomb.php?pid=55&tour=261