10 Nights / 11 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. Duration: 11 Days 10 Nights Destination: Kyiv (with Chernobyl) – Klevan – Lutsk – Lviv – Verkhovyna – Chernivtsi – Kamyanets-Podilskiy (with Khotyn) – Kyiv Departure/Return Location: Kyiv Departure Time: Every day / throughout the year 2021 INCLUDED: 1. Accommodation at the hotel KHRESHATYK – 4 nights with breafast 2. Accommodatio at the hotel in Lviv DNISTER – 2 nights with breakfast 3. Accommodation at the hotel in Verkhovyna VERKHOVEL – 1 night with breakfast 4. Accommodation at the hotel in Chernivtsi GEORGE PALACE – 1 night with breakfast 5. Accommodatio at the hotel in Kamyanets-Podilskiy REIKARTZ – 2 nights with breakfast 6. Coach • For 10 persons MERCEDES SPRINTER 18 seats for all the tour starting from Kyiv (total distance 1700 km) • For 14 persons NEOPLAN 30 seats for all the tour starting from Kyiv (total distance 1700 km) 7. English-speaking tourleader for all the tour starting from Kyiv (10 days) 8. Entrancee fee to all museums as per program + Privaye tour to Chernobyl (WITH INSURANCES) 9. Lunches as per program (3-course meal with soft drinks only) 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 4. Standard insurances for entering Ukraine (with COVID Treatment coverage) 5. Dinners Note: 1. We provide if necessary, visa support docs FREE OF CHARGE 2. we can provide and issue an insurance if necessary (Additional cost) • We start our tour from the capital, the Kyiv. • Arrival to the hotel – Khreshatyk, check-in • Breakfast at the hotel • 10:00 – 13:00 - sightseeing tour This excursion will make you get acquainted with the most interesting and marvelous sights of Kyiv.The Golden Gate. It was erected by Yaroslav the Wise to be the gala entrance to the city. Nearby there is the monument dedicating to Yaroslav the Wise with model of Sophia Kyivska on his hand.Sophyivska square is the main square at the time of Yaroslav the Wise's ruling. The erection of Sophia Kyivska was the action to show the power of Kyivan Rus. The graves of Yaroslav the Wise and his wife Irina are located here. Sofiya Kyivska used to be a library. In 1990 Sophia was included into UNESCO's list of international heritage.Myhailovsky Cathedral was founded by Prince Svyatopolk (Myhayl). There had been the remains of holy Varvara, which were transferred to Vladymyrsky cloister after the destruction. During 1997- 2000 Myhailovsky cathedral was rebuilt.Khreschatyk Street is the main street of Kiev. Independent square is situated nearby and is the place for repose and entertainment. Every weekend it converts into the pedestrian area. There is the underground trade mall "Globus" with lots of cozy cafes.he monument to Volodymyr who had baptized Kyiv Rus is situated on Volodymyrskyi hill. Rushing through the old park you stumble across the funicular-tram (3 carriages) which can lift you down and up to Volodymyrskyi hill. Going down you meet the charms of Podil, the historical district, where merchants and craftsmen used to live during the time of Kyivan Rus. Loads of exquisite churches, Florovsky convent, the river moorage, market and variety of fascinating buildings can be observed wandering along narrow streets of this district. • Lunch at the Chinese cuisine restaurant JIU LONG • 14:30 – 16:30 – Tour to Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Monastery Tour to the golden-domed Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Monastery, the most famous sight-seeing object in Kyiv, which has been included in UNESCO World Heritage Register. You will visit caves where monks lived. The monks were also buried in these caves. The mixture of the cool temperatures and humid atmosphere of the caves allowed the bodies of the dead to mummify. This twenty-eight-hector functioning monastery contains numerous churches, towers, a printing works, miles of maze-like underground tunnels containing numerous churches and some of Kyiv's riches museums. • 16:45 – 17:30 – Visit to the National Museum of history of Ukraine in World War II (Motherland Monument) The main exposition is deployed in 16 halls and has more than 17 thousand exhibits Guided tour «Ukraine. War. Own Memory» talks about heroism, valor, sacrifice and tragedy of the people of Ukraine during the Second World War. It highlights global events of the war and detached historical facts. • Transfer to the hotel. Breakfast at the hotel 09:00 – 19:00 - Full day tour to Chernobyl with lunch at the local café 09:00 – departure from Kyiv We make a stop at the last petrol station before The Zone, so you can get your morning coffee, buy water and snacks. It is the last civilization on our way. It takes around 2 hours to get to the main entrance of the zone –check point “Dytiatky”, where we pass passport control, sign radiation safety rules and the tour starts. • Nature is taking over the place. Wildlife is truly great in the zone. There are foxes, hares, wild boars, deer, wolves, moose, and herds of Przewalski horses and other species. You should keep your eyes open and look around on your way from the checkpoint to the town of Chornobyl. We see wildlife very often, but no 2 headed animals, monsters and zombies! • Stop in the village of Zalissya with almost 700 abandoned houses (uninhabited) • Discover the town of Chornobyl – the busiest part of the zone nowadays. Almost 5000 people work and live there in shifts. Radiation background in the town of Chornobyl is lower than in Kyiv. • The main square of the town of Chornobyl/memorial “The Wormwood Star” • Statue of Lenin (one of the few remaining in Ukraine) • Abandoned Synagogue • Chornobyl river port with sunken boats and ships • Quick stop at the local shop (if needed) • Memorial “To those who saved the world” • Exhibition of original, remotely controlled robotic machines used during cleanup • Leliv checkpoint, entrance to the 10km zone • The village where almost all the buildings were demolished and buried during the decontamination works in 1986. The area is very overgrown now. We stop near the remaining nursery school. Here you can face and measure radiation for the first time and learn more about contamination. • The industrial site of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant • Cooling towers of the Chornobyl NPP 3rd generation (pass by) • Unit 5, unfinished reactor of Chornobyl NPP (pass by) • Panoramic view of CHNPP • New Safe Confinement ("Arch") – visitor`s site at 250 m distance • NPP cooling channel (feeding giant catfish – available May to September) • Memorial "Life for Life” in front of the main administrative building of NPP • Prometheus statue, which was evacuated together with Prypiat citizens • Lunch (included) 13.30-14.00 (vegetarian meal available upon request), Ukrainian cuisine, all products are delivered from Kyiv. • Prypiat – the ghost town. Time stopped there on April 26th, 1986 and you now have a unique opportunity to travel back in time and plunge into the Soviet era. Our professional guides have expert knowledge of the area and will help you explore the town on foot for roughly 2 hours. Please note, it is officially forbidden to enter buildings in Prypiat as it is unsafe. • Prypiat welcome sign and decontaminated Red Forest area • Bridge of death • Prypiat hospital 126 • Prypiat ferry terminal and riverside café with amazing, laminated stained glass windows • Prypiat town hall –after 1986 – main headquarters for military and liquidators • Polissya hotel • The main square of the ghost town • Palace of culture “Energetic”, the biggest entertainment center of Prypiat • Supermarket building • Restaurant building • Bumper cars in the amusement park which was never opened • Iconic Ferris wheel, the most famous spot in the entire Chernobyl zone • Prypyat stadium “Avangard” which is slowly turning into a forest • Swimming pool "Azure", which had been in operation until 1996 • Middle school of Prypiat • Fire station of Prypiat • Please note, it is officially forbidden to enter buildings in Prypiat as it is unsafe. • Top secret military base Chernobyl -2 and Duga OTH Radar • Radiation check at 10km zone checkpoint • Final stop and last pictures at Chernobyl road sign • Obligatory radiation control at 30km zone checkpoint • Arriving back to Kyiv at 18.30 - 20.00 • Breakfast at the hotel • 10:00 – 13:00 - Morning tour to Pyrohiv Museum This museum was founded in 1969 as the reserve of the national culture. Spread out over scenic rolling hills dotted with groves of trees are many quint 17ths to 20th century wooden cottages, churches, farmsteads and windmills, many of them with manufactured flower and vegetable gardens and interiors furnished with fascinated old textiles, traditional furniture and tools. There are more than 300 buildings: churches, mills, huts, the objects of life, country clothes (about 80 thousand items).