TRANS-SIBERIAN TRANSFORMER TOUR

On regular trains

(16 days/15 nights)

Day Port of call Excursion program

Transfer to the railway station, depart from to 1 Moscow Yekaterinburg by train

2 Yekaterinburg Evening arrival in Yekaterinburg, transfer to the hotel

FREE time

OR

OPTION 1: Yekaterinburg city tour with visit to the Church on Blood and to the place of the border between Europe and Asia – 150 3 Yekaterinburg Euro pp OPTION 2: Visit to the Mineralogy museum – 45 Euro pp

OPTION 3: Visit to the museum Yeltsin Centre – 40 Euro pp

Transfer to the railway station, depart from Yekaterinburg to by train

Afternoon arrival in Novosibirsk, transfer to the hotel.

FREE time

OR

4 Novosibirsk OPTION 1: Novosibirsk city tour, visit to Academgorodok, return to hotel – 85 Euro pp

OPTION 2: Evening performance in the most famous Opera house of Siberia (to be booked on spot as depending of the performances schedule)

Day Port of call Excursion program

Novosibirsk - Transfer to the railway station, depart from Novosibirsk to 5 Krasnoyarsk by train, night arrival in Krasnoyarsk, transfer to the Krasnoyarsk hotel

FREE time

OR

6 Krasnoyarsk OPTION: Krasnoyarsk city tour with the visit to the national park “Stolby”, visit to the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station (outside view) and to the observation deck “Tsar Fish” on the bank of the river, return to hotel – 190 Euro pp

Transfer to the railway station, depart from Krasnoyarsk to 7 Krasnoyarsk by train

Morning arrival in Irkutsk, transfer to Listvyanka on the bank of Lake Baikal, accommodation in hotel, free time.

OR

Irkutsk - OPTION 1: City tour or Irkutsk with the walk along the Angara 8 Listvyanka river and the visit to the district of wooden houses – 70 Euro pp OPTION 2: visit to the art gallery and the shaman stone on the Angara river, visit to the architectural and ethnographic museum of Taltsy; transfer by boat to port Baikal, a short trip along the Circum-Baikal railway on the shore of lake Baikal – 160 Euro pp

Listvyanka - 9 Free day at Lake Baikal, transfer to Irkutsk railway station, depart Irkutsk from Irkutsk to Ulan-Ude by train

Morning arrival in Ulan-Ude, FREE TIME, depart from Ulan-Ude to Chita by train

10 Ulan-Ude OR

OPTION: visit to Ivolginsky datsan (a Buddhist monastery), Ulan- Ude city tour – 125 Euro pp

Day Port of call Excursion program

Late breakfast at hotel, check out.

Transfer from the hotel to the railway station

Speed train from Pskov to St. Petersburg (~290 km)12:43-16:30 OPTIONAL: lunch box in the train Pskov – St. 7 Petersburg Transfer to the hotel

check in the hotel.

OPTIONAL: River and canals

OPTIONAL: Dinner at the hotel

Breakfast at hotel, check out. 8 St. Petersburg Transfer to the airport/railway station