THE  GOLDEN   RING  OF   RUSSIA

(MOSCOW - VLADIMIR - SUZDAL - KOSTROMA - YAROSLAVL - ROSTOV VELIKI - SERGIEV POSSAD - MOSCOW)

HISTORY COMES ALIVE ON THIS FASCINATING TOUR AS YOU VISIT OLD RUSSIAN SITES

 

DAY 01   

Arrival in Moscow

Tourists are greeted at the airport, assisted with transfer to hotel

The rest of the day is free to relax or to begin to explore our majestic city

Welcome dinner in the hotel

 

DAY 02        

Breakfast in the hotel. Local coach and guide for full day sightseeing:

City sightseeing tour with visit to the legendary Red Square, see breathtaking

St.Basil's cathedral and a spectacular view of the Kremlin and other beautiful places of Moscow

Enter the Kremlin and reveal a city within the city

 

 

Step at the Cathedral square with its famous churches:

St.Michael the Archangel, the Annunciation, and the Assumption

After early dinner in the hotel, we invite you to the famous Moscow circus

 

DAY 03        

Breakfast in the hotel

Deluxe coach transfer to Vladimir (founded in 1108 on the banks of the river Klyazma, it is the scene of many historic events) 

Sightseeing excursion around Vladimir with entrance in Uspensky Cathedral.

 

Welcome dinner in the hotel in Vladimir.

 

DAY 04        

Breakfast in the hotel

Transfer to the next town of Golden Ring world famous Suzdal - ancient capital of Suzdal principality that is justly famed for its history and architecture

 

 

Sightseeing tour around Suzdal with a visit to the monastery and an authentic Russian dinner in Izba (wooden hut) with folklore show entertainment

Return to Vladimir and overnight in the hotel in Vladimir

 

DAY 05        

Вreakfast in the hotel

Deluxe coach for a transfer to an old Russian town of Kostroma built on the bank of the Great Russian river Volga.

Sightseeing tour around the town, visit to the local Kremlin.

Optional late evening enjoy a boat trip on the Volga river

 

 

Accommodation in the hotel and dinner in the hotel.

 

DAY 06        

Breakfast in the hotel

Take the morning trip to Yaroslavl where you will visit the nunnery, Tolgskiy monastery, and have a panoramic tour of the city

 

 

Continue trip to Rostov-The-Great on the lake Nero where one of the oldest Kremlin is located. Russian master craftsmen put inexhaustible fantasy and skill into every Rostov's Kremlin buildings and all of them will delight you with its beauty

 

 

Dinner and overnight in the hotel.

 

DAY 07        

B reakfast in the hotel

Continue trip to Sergiev Posad

Excursion in the town with a visit to St.Sergiy-Trinity Laura - the sacred monastery

founded by Sergiy Radonezhsky. The buildings were built during the time of Ivan the Terrible

Here tourists see the very famous works of the greatest Russian icon-artist Andrey Rublev

 

 

Dinner in a local restaurant with vodka tasting and then return to Moscow

Overnight in a hotel in Moscow

 

DAY 08        

В reakfast in the hotel

Morning tour to Kolomenskoe - the former estate place of Ivan the Terrible, with beautiful landscape dominating over Moscow river and authentic medieval buildings

 

 

Afternoon for leisure

Farewell dinner in a carefully chosen city restaurant

 

DAY 09       

Breakfast in the hotel

Escorted transfer to airport or station

 

Package price of above tour depends on period of the year and level of the hotels and available upon request.