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6 Nights / 7 Days Silk Road Dream Tours is an innovative tourism company offering tours throughout Georgia, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Morocco, Portugal, Bosnia, Myanmar as well as Ukraine. We invite you to discover and enjoy the uniqueness of each of those destinations with our high- quality operational standards. Are we choosing the right Tour Operator? We are working with specialized Tour Operator in Ukraine, have the know-how to guarantee the best quality trips. Enjoy unforgettable experience with us and our professional team. Touring by coach, according your time limit, will make your dreams become alive experiencing and enjoying foreign countries acquiring, at the same time, a better knowledge of the visited country. At your disposal a wide selection of tours with different days of length, all of them guided by professional multilingual tour escort and multilingual licensed local guides. Our modern fleet of air conditioned and panoramic windows coaches with reclining seats together with our experienced drivers ensure comfort, safety and peacefulness. With our tours you have the opportunity to meet people from all cultures and ages. Experience, together with them, the finding of new places. Grab the chance to discover the charms of Moldova! You will have the incredible opportunity to discover picturesque landscapes, traditions, and culture of the country, which embraced different nations, habits and languages: breathtaking cave monastery perched above a winding valley at Old Orhei, Soviet-loving, immersion in the breakaway Transnistria, world’s largest wine collection and underground wine city and of course, savory wine and food. Duration: 7 Days 6 Nights Destination: Chisinau/Odesa Departure/Return Location: Chisinau/Odesa Departure Time: Every day / throughout the year 2021 Transport we use: 1 or 2 pax – regular car 3/4/5 pax – minivan 6/7/8 pax – coach 15 seats INCLUDED: 1. Accommodation at the hotel JOLLY Alon 4* in Chisinau 3 nights in TWIN Standard Room with breakfast 2. Accommodation at the hotel MILANO 4* in Odesa 3 nights in TWIN Standard Room with breakfast 3. Individual transfer upon arrival in Chisinau 4. Individual transfer upon departure from Odesa 5. Individual international transfer Chisinau-Odesa 6. All excursions as per program with English-speaking Guide, transportation, and entrance fee 7. Tasting during winery tours in Moldova 8. Lunches at Day 2-3-4-5-6 9. Small souvenirs 10. All taxes Price does not include: 1. Early check-in & Late check-out at the hotel 2. International flight to/from Ukraine 3. Visa cost/ if necessary Note: 1. We provide if necessary, visa support docs FREE OF CHARGE 2. we can provide and issue an insurance if necessary (Additional cost) • Arrival to Chisinau • Transfer to the hotel • Overnight • Breakfast at the hotel • Chisinau city-tour Visit the main points of attractions - the oldest church Mazarachi, architectural monument Chisinau City Gate, Railway station, memorial complex "Eternity" , the main street of the capital – Stefan cell Mare, the Central Cathedral, the Chisinau City Hall, pedestrian street, park of Stefan cel Mare. Visit the National Museum of Ethnography • Transfer to Capriana monastery • Lunch on the way to Capriana monastery in the national restaurant La Badiș • Excursion to Capriana monastery The first documented reference of the church dates to 1420 and during the time is has the status of monastery of the prince of Moldova. Initially built from wood, it suffered from the repeated invasions of the Tatars or Turks. Stefan the Great is the founder of the stone church dedicated to the “Assumption of Virgin Mary” (1491-1496). • Excursion to Mileștii Mici Mileștii Mici tunnelsare the largest underground cave network with the biggest collection of wine in the world. It has over 200 km of underground streets, more than 50 km of wine galleries at a depth of about 85m under the ground. Its collection of over 2 million bottles of wine has been officially documented by the Guiness Book of World Records as a biggest in the world. • Back to Chisinau • Breakfast at the hotel • Transfer to Curchi monastery Visit Curchi Monastery - one of the oldest monasteries in Moldova. The Summer Church “Nativity of Virgin Mary” was built during 1866-1872 in baroque style. The cathedral is the highest in Moldova – the middle dome reaching 57 m and being twin with the Synod “Saint Andrew the First Called” of Kyiv. • Transfer to Orheiul Vechi Visit of Orheiul Vechi region, visiting the unique cave monastery (13th cent.), carved in limestone rock - the part of the picturesque landscape. Visiting the house-museum of traditional life of Moldavian farmers (19 century) in the village Butuceni. • Lunch in the rural pension in Trebujeni which includes national Moldovan dishes (polenta, pies and typical Moldovan desert) and home-made wine. You can enjoy Moldovan songs and dances, as well as the opportunity to participate in the folklore program. • Transfer to Cricova Excursion to the unique underground city of the wine "Cricova", where you can stroll through the underground galleries full of wine barrels, see a huge wine cellar (including wines from the Hermann Goering collection), taste fine wine and sparkling wine, created according to the classical technology "Champanoise" • Back to Chisinau • Breakfast at the hotel • Check-out • Transfer to Transnistria City tour Bender, including the Tighina fortress - the largest fortress in Europe, built by the Turks during their stay here. And today the modern appearance of the fortress is an earthen rampart, a deep ditch lined with limestone, towering towers of the citadel and lower fortifications, fortress walls confirm its former power • Transfer to Tiraspol Sightseeing tour of the "capital" of Transnistria – Tiraspol. Founded by Suvorov, the city survived many shocks and preserved the spirit of the USSR. You will begin by visiting the monument to Vladimir Lenin and the tank left from the Great Patriotic War. • Lunch in the restaurant “Kumanyok” • Transfer to Odessa • Arrival and check-in to the hotel The very name of Odesa evokes the city’s special atmosphere, created by its location and unique mix of inhabitants. Sooner or later, everyone feels at home here. Nowadays people from more than 130 nationalitiesresidein Odesa. Since its foundation, Odesa hosted numerous adventurous migrants (from artists to artisans, from merchant to mariners) from Italy, France, and other parts of Europe. Follow in their steps for a while! Every family, every yard, and every street can tell you it’s secret story, whether sad or happy, long, or short, but always intriguing. Coming here, your impressions will surpass cultural boundaries! • Breakfast at the hotel • Odessa city tour This tour brings the tourists to the main highlights of the city that are familiar even to those who have never visited it: Opera House, The Potemkin Stairs, monument to Rishilieu, Derybasivska street... Come and touch the history and the present life of this magnetic city. The excursion acquaints tourists with the city, its revolutionary, historical, and architectural monuments, it is past and present. Usually, it begins with the Seaside Boulevard or starts from your hotel. Enjoy a pleasant stroll along Primorsky Boulevard - the city’s most popular promenade. Many of Odesa’s finest buildings and monuments line the boulevard. Among the pretty structures are the Palace of Count Vorontsov and the Palace of Weddings. Count Pototsky’s former palace is now the Fine Arts Gallery. (The exhibit includes a prized collection of Russian and Ukrainian paintings dating back to the 15-th century). Continue your walk past the impressive The Potemkin Stairs, which was completed in 1841. You will then see Pushkin Monument. The poet spent a 13-month exile in Odessa. Also, you will see the Cannon (trophy of the Crimean war). Next come the Archeological Museum, the Marine Museum. You will also see the exterior of the monumental Opera House (Completed in 1887, the baroque-style building resembles the Vienna Opera house and Dresden Court Theatre and was designed by the same architects). You will be also shown the Odesa University named after Mechnikov situated in Derybasivska Street, then goes along Pushkinska Street and, passing the Pushkin Apartment-Museum, the Museum of Western and Oriental Art, the Philharmonic Society. Passing the picturesque Proletarsky Boulevard and the Academican Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy. The next point is Shevchenko Park, where you will pause for photos, is named for the famed Ukrainian poet and patriot. It affords pleasant views of the Black Sea and features a beach. You will see the Monument to the Unknown Sailor which stands in the Alley of Glory. Usually, we finish our tour at the hotel or at the pier. The sightseeing excursion not only acquaints tourists with the picturesque southern city of Odesa but also provides comprehensive information about the life of the Ukrainian. • Lunch at the restaurant FOR U • Tour to Odesa Catacombs Your exploration of Odesa would not be complete without a visit to the labyrinth of catacombs that lace their way under the city and its environs. Odesa was built on the coquina stones that had been mined out of the ground. That is why the long labyrinths spread under the city. They keep the secrets of the past one episode of which will be opened for you while the excursion to catacombs museum of heroic defense in the time of W.W.II The history of catacombs in Odesa is fascinating and includes a lot of significant events in the history of Odesa, especially in the times of World War II. Catacombs are essentially a huge underground city with its own streets, boulevards, and squares. A large part of the catacombs is still not researched, which is why it is hard to even imagine what can be hidden inside them.