Day 1
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Depart for Moscow
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Day 2
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Arrival to Moscow airport. Transfer to the 3* hotel “Kosmos”. Address: 150, Mira Prospect. Rest.
Dinner in the hotel (for extra pay)
09:45 pm - Meeting with tour guide near reception.
10:00 pm - Night bus tour of Moscow. |
Day 3
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Breakfast in the hotel.
Dear friends, we’ll visit Russian Cathedrals: NO shorts, NO naked shoulders, NO naked knees.
08:45 am - Meeting with tour guide near reception. Going to the centre of Moscow by metro.
Tour:
-Red Square
-Assumption Cathedral
-Tsar bell, Tsar gun;
-Sobornaya square; - The Armory treasure house.
-Christ the Savior Cathedral
05:00 pm– Visiting Moscow school and Museum of Russian culture “Rossiyanka” in this school.
Dinner in the hotel (for extra pay). |
Day 4
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Breakfast in the hotel.
08:00 am - Early departure for Suzdal by bus with Alla Tumanova (Fun-Tour). Suzdal occupies a special place among the old cities of Russia because nowhere else is a flavor of the past so distinctly felt as in this tiny and cozy town.
11:00 am - On the way to Suzdal stop in Vladimir city. Watching Assumption Cathedral – the main cathedral of Vladimir.
Arrival to Suzdal. Accommodation in the hotel Suzdal Inn.
Address: 27, Vasilevskaya Str.
Lunch.
03:00 pm - Visiting Spaso-Efimiev Monastery – the main and the biggest monastery of the area.
Welcome dinner in the hotel restaurant. |
Day 5
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Breakfast in the hotel.
10:00 am - Walk tour of Suzdal. Visiting Suzdal Kremlin, Museum of Wooden Architecture.
Lunch.
Free time.
Dinner in the hotel restaurant. |
Day 6
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Breakfast in the hotel.
09:30 am - Departure for Ivanovo. Watching small businesses, learning how small businesses work in Russia: visit to the farm (10:30am-11:30am), to the Bank of Ivanovo (12:00am),
01:00 pm – 02:00 pm - Lunch in private café
03:00 pm - Visiting school (in Russia we have primary, secondary and high school together). Meeting teachers. Round table talk on methods of teaching.
05:00 pm - Dinner in the families
Return to Suzdal Inn |
Day 7
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Breakfast in the hotel
09:30 am – Departure for Bogolubovo and the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl.
03:00 pm - Lunch
05:00 pm - Russian-American Party in Suzdal Inn. Welcome teachers and their families, sport humorous competition (our know-how, you are sure to enjoy these activities).
Dinner with families in the hotel. Special surprise! =) |
Day 8
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Breakfast in the hotel.
09:30 am - Departure for Plyos. Boat tour on the Volga.
Return to Suzdal Inn
Farewell barbeque in the hotel. DISCO. |
Day 9
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Breakfast in the hotel
Souvenir shopping in Suzdal Inn souvenir shop or any other place
12:00 am- Lunch in the hotel
01:00 pm - transfer to Ivanovo and taking train to St. Petersburg |
Day 10 |
Arrive in St. Petersburg. Snacks and tea in the train
Meet at the railway station by the guide
Bus tour of the city with a visit to St. Isaac’s Cathedral and Peter & Paul’s Fortress, Smolnyi Institution, etc. (4,5 hours)
Visit to Piskarevskiy memorial
Transfer to the hotel Ibis 3*, accommodation. Free time
Dinner (additional pay) |
Day 11 |
Breakfast in the hotel
Tour to Catherine’s Palace in Tsarskoe Selo (with the famous Amber Room)
(6 hours).
You may have lunch in the restaurant in Tsarskoe Selo for additional price
06 p.m. – return to the city |
Day 12
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Breakfast in the hotel
Check out from the hotel. Leave luggage at the storage room at the railway station
Visit to Hermitage (local transportation)
Afternoon free
Take the night train back to Moscow |
Day 13
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Arrival to Moscow by train, snacks in the bus during transfer to Moscow airport.
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