Arrival day
(meeting with tour leader or company representative to discuss the program and route)
Stay overnight in hotel.
Программа тура на русском языке
In hotel
Guided City tour with a visit to the city Fortress, photo stops with the most beautiful views of the historical city center which was built according to the city plan.
Visit of Grand Maket Russia, unique private museum with a scale model of all Russian territory displayed on 800m2. Hundreds of trains and cars, light and sound effects, thousands of action figures, march of day and night effect inspires you on a further trip to Vladivostok.
Free time
Optional Boat tour
Stay overnight in hotel
In hotel
Peterhof park is signed as UNESCO World Heritage site for the unique fountain system consisting of more than 150 fountains and 4 great cascades where water flows under its own pressure. Enjoy the park landscapes and panoramic views, find the joke fountains of 18th century, have a look on St. Petersburg from the shore of the Gulf of Finland. The tour includes a visit to one of the park palaces or engineering fountain tour to the Grotto (specify upon booking).
Meeting at the hotel, transfer to the train station
Overnight train to Moscow
Breakfast
We will explore the real wonder of Russian Capital: the Underground constructed in Soviet times with the idea of becoming Palaces for workpeople - that is why beautiful and unique decoration was used for each station. You will see expensive materials, mosaics, sculptures and the best architectural solutions of that time. Then we will walk inside the Kremlin walls to see the medieval Churches with well-preserved frescoes and Presidential Residence. All must-sees such as Red Square, Lenin Mausoleum (outside only), Newly opened Zaryadje park and stylish GUM department store are included in our walking tour.
Stay overnight in hotel.
In hotel
This majestic city is steeped in history and beauty. A trip here combines the old and the new - learn the story of communism at VDNKh park and the Cosmos Museum or enjoy the cosmopolitan life of modern-day Moscow.
Optional Kolomenskoe
Optional Back to the USSR tour (VDNH+Cosmos Museum)
Optional Tretjakov Gallery + Zamoskvorechye + Gorky Park visit
Optional Moscow River boat trip
Meeting at the hotel, transfer to the train station
Overnight train to Kazan
Kazan is the capital of The Republic of Tatarstan and a very specific city, combining Russian and Tatar culture in a unique mixture. During the city tour we will visit the most remarkable sites as Kremlin and Kul Sharif Mosque, will try popular local fast food and walk in a historical Tatar district.
Free time
Stay overnight in hotel
Kazan was a host to lots of international sport events in recent years. But the main national Tatar sport is horseracing. We will visit the Race track, one of the biggest in Europe and the only in Russia, and the museum of horse breeding. Optional horse riding.
Hospitable host will tell you about this traditional sweet while you taste it in a nice atmosphere of old Tatar house.
Transfer to the station,
Free time till train
Overnight train to Yekaterinburg.
During city tour we will visit the central part of the city, the dam across Iset river and main pedestrian street, constructivism soviet buildings and brand new skyscrapers and get the guidelines what to do in free time.
Stay overnight in hotel
We highly recommend you to visit Boris Yeltsin cultural center, learn the beauty of constructivism buildings, visit one of the Mineral Stone museums or choose our unique optional program. Optional Ural Gold mining tour and Optional Try Real Russia. Meeting at the hotel and transfer to the train station
Overnight train to Krasnoyarsk
Day at the train
If you have ever been to Krasnoyarsk, but haven't visited the nature reserve Stolby, you haven't seen the heart of the city, its lungs, it's soul. Excursion around Central group of rocks, 3 km on foot. For those, who like spending a holiday in a calm or active way, who like to discover new spaces and observe panoramic views, who look for harmony with nature we offer the excursion to the reserve Stolby to explore Russian Taiga forest. This is the place to get unforgettable impressions. The tourist-bus goes along the forest road.
After all we come back to the city and visit a local artist in her art studio, where she will tell you about her artworks, trips to the north of Siberia and local art life. Tea party with homemade pancakes.
Stay overnight in hotel.
City tour.
Overnight train to Irkutsk.
Guided city tour (3 hours)
We will visit the House Museum of Maria Volkonskaya. Sometimes called the Princess of Siberia, Maria was one of the many Decembrist revolutionaries' wives who voluntarily accompanied their husbands into exile.
Transfer to Baikal lake, free time
Stay overnight in hotel
We will have a nice walk in Listvyanka, learn the story of Baikal evolution in the unique Baikal Museum and climb on a picturesque Chersky stone panoramic point (728 m above sea level). .
Trip to traditional Buryat village, where you will listen to local folk ensemble, try traditional Buryat dishes, visit a local museum and at the end have a meeting with a shaman.
After the tour we will visit local market to buy local specialties, such as cedar nuts, herbal teas, etc.
Train to Vladivostok
OR overnight flight S7 to Vladivostok (available Wed and Sat)
Free time.
Free time.
Free time.
Breakfast
Stay overnight in hotel.
Departure day or Optional program + additional day at the hotel
Optional: trip to Safari-park (Amur & Timur, leopards)
Optional: One day in marine park
Optional: Lighthouses of Vladivostok boat tour with a seafood dinner afterwards
*This is an indicative program. The full tour program is issued upon arrival..