Excursion to Valaam from Petrozavodsk

- 06.00 Group gathering at the main entrance to the building of the hotel "Severnaya" (Lenin Avenue, 21).

- Guide guide meets a group with a sign "Karelia Lines".

Departure from Petrozavodsk by bus to Sortavala (260 km).

- Coming to Sortavala.

- 11.00 Departure of the "meteor" to the island of Valaam (50 minutes on Lake Ladoga).

- 12:00 Arrival at the Monastery Bay.

The total time spent on the island is 5 hours.

- A walking tour of the central estate of the monastery.
Length: 1.5 km. Duration: 2.5 hours.
You will visit the Transfiguration Cathedral, where the relics of Saints Sergius and Herman, the founders of the monastery, are located.

- 14.30 A small transfer by "meteor" to Nikon Bay.

- 15.00 Lenten lunch in the refectory, prepared in the walls of the monastery.

- New Jerusalem tour. Length: 2.5 km.
Visiting the Sunday Skete. Further along the forest road walk to the man-made garden of Gethsemane, where there is a cozy Gethsemane skete with a wooden church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The tour ends on the Mount of Olives, where one of the most poetic views of Ladoga opens.

- 17.00 Departure of the "meteor" from Nikon Bay to Sortavala.

- 18:00 Arrival at the dock in Sortavala.

- Departure by bus to Petrozavodsk.

On the way to the mountain park "Ruskeala".

- 19.00-20.30 Walking tour of the marble canyon.
Length: 1.3 km. Duration: 1.5 hours.
The old and abandoned quarry of stone mining, developed for almost three centuries, is now equipped for tourists.
You will find the main location of the park - the marble slopes of the canyon.
You will pass in the "dry tunnel" and visually get acquainted with the history of mining.

On the way, a visit to Ruskealsky waterfalls is the place where the filming of the famous movie "And the dawns are quiet here" took place.

- 01:00 Arrival in town. Completion of the program at the hotel "North".