Livoberezhne Polissya (Left banks of Polissya) Ecological tour around Livoberezhne Polissya (6 days)

Would you like to enjoy the truly fresh air of Polissya woods, feel the warmth of the incredible Desna river, see the rare protected plants included into the Red Book of , admire the unique architecture of the wooden churches, visit the territory of Ukraine which was inhabited more than 20 thousand years ago? Than this tour is right for you! During a few days you will have an opportunity to enjoy the trip around Livoberezhne Polissya and learn about its unique nature and historical monuments. May-October Program Day 1

Leaving from . – the mid-18th-century Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Nativity built in the late Ukrainian Baroque style with the amazing 27m-high iconostasis, the Regimental Chancellery Building (the current Town Hall). The Cathedral was built on the request of Nataliya Rozumovska, mother of the last of Ukraine Kyrylo Rozumovsky. – the historical places of the old part of a city – Boryso-Hlibsky Cathedral with the stunning silver Royal Doors, the Transfiguration Cathedral with its two distinctive bell towers, the Regimental Chancellery, the burial-mounds on the Boldyn hill, Troyitsky and Illinsky Trinity Monasteries, the impressive Antoniy caves with 315 m of passageways, galleries and chapels. Accommodation at a hotel. Dinner.

Day 2

Breakfast. (visiting the 17th-century monuments: a wooden Church of St. Yuriy, the Annunciation Church, Stone house of Lyzohuby, the homestead of Chernihiv colonel Jakiv Lyzohub). Sosnytsya (a museum-homestead of Oleksandr Dovzhenko). Novhorod-Siversky – the 11-18th-centuries Transfiguration Monastery and Cathedral, monuments to the Prince Ihor Svyatoslavovych and Yaroslavna, the Assumption Cathedral, the 18th-century Mykilska church, the 18th-century Triumphal Arch. Accommodation at a hotel. Dinner.

Day 3 – 4

Breakfast. Floating down the Desna river on the territory of Mezyn National Nature Park - a trip along the incredible river with its wide valleys, sinuosity of the channel, a number of old channels and tributaries and sandy banks. During the floating we also admire the Mezyn National Nature Park where you can see a great number of rare plants included into the Red Book of Ukraine. Moreover Mezyn is known as a place where the settlement of Paleolithic Age (approximately twenty thousand years ago) was found. Sleeping in tents. Dinner.

Day 5

Breakfast. – an ancient town of a great history and courage – St. Nickolas Church (the main building on the Radna Square where Ukrainian were designated, the historical and architectural monument of the national importance), the Saviour Transfiguration Cathedral and the 18th-century Kyiv Gates of the city fortress, the architectural ensemble of Kyiv-Moskovska Street, the Church of Ascension. – a town that played an extremely important role in the history of Ukraine, the archaeological monument of the epoch (the historic-cultural reserve “Hetman’s capital” with the 18th-century Palace of Rozumovski, the building of a General Court, the Church of Resurrection, Mykolo-Krupyc’ky Monastery). Accommodation at a hotel. Dinner.

Day 6

Breakfast. – Pokrova Church, St. Michael’s Church of the Greek Community, the so-called Cossack Cathedral of St. Nicholas, a rare survival from the days of Nizhyn's Cossack glory; the Neoclassical complex of the famous Nizhyn Lyceum, the monument to Mykola Gogol. Kachanivka – a national historic-cultural reserve - the Tarnowski palace and park complex of the 18-19th centuries, the beautiful architectural and natural ensemble and the only Ukrainian homestead preserved as a complex; Pavilion of Hlinka. Returning to Kyiv.

*The organizer is entitled to the right to make the slight changes to the program without changing the general content of a trip.

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