Transfer to the hotel and check-in.

Accommodation:

• Superior category: Hotel Ukraine

Breakfast. City tour of the capital of Ukraine, located on the banks of the Dnieper. Kiev is a city of rich historical and cultural heritage. The city has wide avenues and parks with numerous religious relics, such as the Cathedral of St.Sophia and the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. We will walk along the main avenue of Kiev – Kreschatik – and Maidan Nezalezhnosty (Independence Square), which was the epicenter of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Visit to the St.Sophia Cathedral, one of the most famous monuments of the city and the first Ukrainian heritage inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. We will take a funicular ride that connects the historic district with the lower commercial district of Podil. Lunch. Excursion to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, a monastery founded in 1051 by the monks for the purpose of propagating the Christian religion. The Lavra has multiple churches with golden domes, underground labyrinths with mummified monks, and elegant monastic buildings. The Kiev Pechersk Lavra still remains one of the most important religious centers for the Christian world. We will visit the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, which contains the richest collection of burial treasures dating back to the 4th century BC. C.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Superior category: Hotel Ukraine

We will go by one of the routes chosen in advance. ROUTE 1- Chernobyl and Pripyat day tour with lunch ROUTE 2 - Pirogovo Open Air Museum Half Day Tour with Lunch ROUTE 1 Breakfast. We will go to Chernobyl through the Dytiatky checkpoint (on the edge of the 30 km Alignment Zone). Entrance to the 30 km Exclusion Zone. On the way to the city of Chernobyl we will see a small abandoned village Cherevach and the largest village in the Chernobyl area, Zalissya. Arrival to Chernobyl. Introductory information about the administrative division and regulations of the Exclusion Zone. Visit to the town of Chernobyl: the Wormwood Star Memorial, the Church of St. Elias, the memorial “For Those Who Saved the world”; you will also see the robots and vehicles used to clean up the radioactive consequences. Entrance to the 10 km zone through the Leliv checkpoint. On the way to the Nuclear Power Plant, we will stop at the almost completely buried village of Kopachi and visit an abandoned kindergarten. The third stage of the ChNPP (incomplete reactors No5, No6 and unfinished cooling towers). Visit to the new sarcophagus of Reactor No4 from a distance of 270 m. Stop near the Red Forest and Pripyat road sign. Pripyat city: we will see Lenin street, the main square, the palace of culture, the Polissya hotel, the supermarket, the waterwheel, the stadium, the school, the swimming pool, the hospital, etc. Important: we do not enter the buildings of Pripyat. We will pass through the Leliv checkpoint. Radiation control before lunch. Lunch at the Chernobyl canteen: all ingredients are brought in from outside and are ecologically clean. Departure to Dytiatki checkpoint. Mandatory radiation control. ROUTE 2 We will go to the open-air museum of traditional architecture and rural life Pirogovo - containing more than 300 pieces of folk houses brought here from all over Ukraine and carefully reassembled, each of which represents the architecture and life of a specific Ukrainian region. There are m

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Superior category: Hotel Ukraine

Breakfast, check-out. Day at leisure. Transfer to the railway station to take the night train to Odessa. Night on board.

Meals: Breakfast

Arrival to Odessa. Transfer to the hotel. Check-in and breakfast. City tour of Odessa, during which you will discover its numerous parks, esplanades and monuments. Due to its mild climate and beautiful beaches, the city has earned a reputation of a tourist destination. The cosmopolitan architecture of the city reflects its rich cultural and historical heritage. During this tour, you will enjoy a pleasant stroll along the Primorsky Boulevard – the most popular avenue of the city, surrounded by many impressive buildings, including the magnificent Vorontsov Palace. You will see the famous Theatre of Opera and Ballet built in a classical Baroque style in 1887. Then we will visit the Arcadia Beach, located a historical part of Odessa, which is known as a famous resort and an important tourist center of the city. Here you will find many restaurants, bars and discotheques. We will visit the Odessa Opera and Ballet theater designed by Viennese architects Felner and Gelmer and completed in 1887 in classical baroque style. We will have the opportunity to enjoy the architectural ensemble of the theater and relive the stories that have filled this magical space for 125 years. Lunch. We continue with the visit to the Museum of Fine Arts which is located in the center of the city, in one of the most beautiful buildings in the city: the Naryshkin Palace. This unique architectural monument was built in 1820. Today its collection is considered one of the most important and diverse in Ukraine. Currently it has more than 10 000 objects of fine arts: painting, drawing, sculpture, icons, crafts. The exhibition is made in historical and chronological sequence. The collection includes works of art by painters such as Ivan Ayvazovsky, Ilya Repin, Isaak Levitan, Vasyl Surikov, Myhail Vrubel, and many others. It also includes a significant number of 16th-19th century Orthodox icons and contemporary art objects. Visit the grotto below the Museum of Fine Arts. Like most buildings in Odessa, N

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Superior category: Continental Business Hotel

Breakfast. Transfer to Chisinau. Departure Odessa in the morning heading border, the way will take about 2 hours. After crossing the border, we will visit Tiraspol with a tour that´ll allow us to witness lots of Soviet relics and feel the atmosphere of Communism. You’ll learn the history of this self-proclaimed independent and unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic - Transnistria that has its own currency, border guards and policy. Tiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova, located on the Eastern bank of the Dniester River. It was founded by the Russian general Alexandr Suvorov in 1792 whose statue is rising on the central square in Tiraspol. During this tour you’ll see the Drama and Comedy theatre, the Lenin and Suvorov Monuments, the Parliament, the House of Sovjets and have a walking tour along the river Dniestr. Stop by the post office in Tiraspol. Take a chance to visit local food market “Green market” and buy products from local farmers. Then, you will explore the 16th century Tighina fortress (Turkish fortress) and visit the on-site museum and the War Memorial in the city of Bender. The first documentary mention of “Tighina Fortress” was in 1408. Its walls have survived to the present and offer an example of classic Moldavian defensive construction. Lunch. Accommodation at the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Superior category: Zentrum ApartHotel

Breakfast. Panoramic city tour of Chisinau – the capital of Moldova, founded in the early 15th century. During this visit, we will see: the Cathedral of Christ’s Nativity, the Triumphal Arch, the Stefan Cel Mare Central Park with its monuments, the City Hall, the Parliament building and other administrative buildings in the city center. Transfer to the picturesque medieval town of Orhei, located 60 kilometers from Chisinau, in the Reut River. It is a true open-air museum of the medieval era that houses buildings, houses from different periods, caves with the ruins of the first human civilization in the area and the 10th century Orthodox monastery known as Santa Maria Dormanta. Typical lunch. We continue with the Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Museum complex (former Orhei open-air museum) which represents a rich historical and cultural value located between the Butuceni and Trebujeni villages. This area has been inhabited since the earliest times and today attracts many tourists for its incomparable landscapes, rocky surroundings, historical monuments and grottoes, ruins of the old town and medieval fortress of Shehr-al-Jedid and Turkish baths. The highlight of the town is the unique Orthodox cave monastery. Another interesting place to visit on the route is the Moldovan village of Butuceni, where the style and traditions of 19th century Moldovan architecture are preserved and carefully maintained: houses decorated with ornaments, gates, fences, wells with drinking water, cellars ancient. Return to Chisinau.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Superior category: Zentrum ApartHotel

Breakfast. Transfer to the airport.

Meals: Breakfast