10 DAYS ⁄09 NIGHT

1° DAY KIEV Arrival to the capital of and transfer to the hotel. Dinner in local restaurant with folkloric show. 2° DAY KIEV Breakfast buffet at the hotel. In the morning general panoramic city tour. During this excursion you will observe the most interesting sites of Ukrainian capital: Vladimir’s Cathedral, Golden Gates, National Opera and Ballet Theatre, National University, St. Sophia’s Cathedral - one of the biggest preserve museums in Ukraine, built in XI century in the times of included onto the UNESCO World Heritage List, St. Michael’s Gold-Domed Cathedral, Kreshchatik central city street and others. After lunch transfer to the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Pyrogovo. An exciting cultural tour through folk and customs. The museum is an open-air landscape complex of all historic and ethnographic areas of Ukraine. Explore original huts, wooden churches, water and wind mills as well as clothes, wooden tableware and pottery and musical instruments dating back of the 17th – 20th centuries. 3° DAY KIEV-SIMFEROPOL Breakfast buffet at the hotel. In the morning visiting the functioning Cave Monastery (Lavra) founded in 1051 by the monks with the aim to popularize the Christianity, contains miles of maze-like underground tunnels (catacombs) with numerous churches and ancient mummies in sarcophagus, interesting museums: the Museum of Microminiatures, Treasury Museum. After lunch walking on St. Andrew Descent popularly known as the Montmartre of , is one of the most ancient streets in the Ukrainian capital. The tour starts by exploring Saint Andrew's Church. Rare in its beauty and this amazing construction, rightfully considered to be a real work of art, is among the most remarkable of the city’s landmarks. Transfer to the railway station. Night train to Simferopol. 4° DAY SIMFEROPOL – BAKHCHISARAY- Morning arrival in Simferopol. Breakfast at the restaurant. City tour in Bakhchisaray This now quiet, calm town in a green valley of the Crimean foothills used to be the capital of the powerful Crimean Khanate. Visit to Khan's Palace situated at the very center of the Old Town is the Bakhchysarai's brightest sight and one of the few large monuments remained from the Crimean Khanate's times. The Khansarai served as family residence of the Girays dynasty - the rulers of the Crimean state - for two and a half centuries, and now it is the only sample of the Crimean Tatar palatial architecture in the world. Visit to Assumption Rock Monastery - one of the most ancient cave monasteries in the . Transfer to Yalta. Overnight in Yalta. 5°DAY YALTA Breakfast at the hotel. Full day trip over Yalta. Photo stop near a famous Swallow’s nest. This tiny Gothic castle is set, like a swallow’s nest, on the steep Cape of Ai-Todornot cliffs, far from Yalta. It is one of Crimea’s best known trademarks. This elegant building is reminiscent of the castles on the banks of the Rhine, and is considered to be one of the most interesting architectural and historical monuments on the peninsula. Visit to Vorontsov`s palace in Alupka- This architectural monument to Romanticism is one of the shiniest pearls in the necklace that is Crimea. Created by people in tandem with nature, the Vorontsov Palace has amazed guests with its original look for almost two centuries.

ADDRESS: Kruglouniversitetskaya, street 2/1, office 1, Kyiv, 01024, Ukraine,Tel:(+380 44) 235-15-15 FAX: (+380 44) 235-15-17 Web: www.ict-dmc.org.ua E-mail: [email protected] After lunch caves with wine tasting. The Ukraine’s oldest winery Massandra has been producing fine wines for more than 110 years and has won international acclaim for their exceptional quality. 6° DAY YALTA - SEBASTOPOL – YALTA Breakfast at the hotel. Full day trip to . The hero-city Sevastopol, situated on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsula, is one of the most famous cities of Ukraine. Today, it is a first-rate seaport and an important industrial, cultural, historical, and tourist center of the Crimea. Because of its unique history, as well as numerous monuments of architecture, and archeology, Sevastopol is often called a museum-city. The most interesting objects are the Count’s Wharf, Monument to Sunken Ships, and the Memorial to the Defense of Sevastopol. Visit to Panorama "Defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855" - One of the great panoramas of the world (subject plan (area of 900 sq. m.). After lunch visit to the National Reserve "Chersonese". This unique monument of antiquity is one of the brightest tourist attractions on the Crimean peninsula. It is recognized as one of , and it is nominated to be included on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites. is an ancient city, founded over two and a half thousand years ago by Greek colonists. 7° DAY YALTA Breakfast at the hotel. In the morning visit to . The white-stone Livadia Palace, which served as a summer residence for Russian emperors in the 19th - 20th centuries, is not just the most beautiful architectural installation of Crimea’s southern coast, but also an important historical monument. Here, Allied leaders defined the fate of the post-WWII world. After lunch visit to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden. Located not far from Yalta, the Nikitsky Botanical Garden is a real outdoor museum, one of the most unique landmarks of southern Crimea. This man-made park is recognized as a masterpiece of landscape art and is one of the oldest and the most famous botanical gardens in the world. 8° DAY SUDAK-NOVIY SVET-FEODOSIYA Breakfast at the hotel. Full day excursion to Sudak and Noviy Svet. Sudak is very old town, founded by people from Genova in XV century. For a long time it was an important point of trade way and it was only a poing of the Great Silk-way to China. Visit of Genoese fortress. Genoese Fortress is a monument of medieval architecture of world-wide importance. This is the only fully surviving Genoese fortress in the Crimea. After lunch Departure to Noviy Svet. It is a small resort town on South-East Black sea Coast of Crimean peninsula. Walk along Golitsyn trail is provided with observation points and stone steps at steeper stretches. From these observation points wonderful views open up. The path takes you to the summit of Mount Karaul-Oba to give you a breathtaking panorama of a three-mile stretch of the Crimean coast from Cape Meganom to Mount Ayu-Dag. The three bays that lie within this stretch — Green Bay, Dark-Blue Bay and Blue Bay, boast the cleanest water at the Crimean coasts. The names of the bays suggest the color of water in them. Departure to Feodosiya. Overnight in Feodosiya. 9° DAY FEODOSIYA-SIMFEROPOL Breakfast at the hotel. Panoramic tour in Feodosiya. Numerous architectural monuments from different eras remind us of the city’s rich and bright history. The most attractive of these are the leftover fragments of the Genoese Fortress: the St. Clement and Crisco towers, the citadel gate, and a bridge. Turkish baths and several churches also survived on the territory of the fortress. The remarkable heritage of the Middle Ages is the St. Sergius (St. Sarkis) Armenian Church. It is famous for the unique collection of stone slabs, khachkars, which are considered to be the pride of medieval Armenian art. The temple’s history is closely connected to the great Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky, who was baptized, got married in, and (according to his last wishes) is buried on the church’s territory. Departure to Simferopol. Overnight in Simferopol. 10° DAY SIMFEROPOL – KIEV Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport and departure. End of services.

ADDRESS: Kruglouniversitetskaya, street 2/1, office 1, Kyiv, 01024, Ukraine,Tel:(+380 44) 235-15-15 FAX: (+380 44) 235-15-17 Web: www.ict-dmc.org.ua E-mail: [email protected]