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 – CHORNOBYL -KAMIANETS - PODILSKYI - KHOTUN - CHERNIVTSI - LVIV - ODESA Departure/Return Location: KYIV - ODESA Departure Time: Every day / throughout the year 2021 INCLUDED: • 3 nights at Ukraina hotel 4* (Kyiv) https://ukraine-hotel.kiev.ua/ • 2 nights at Reikartz K-P 4* (K-P) https://reikartz.com/uk/hotels/kamianets- podolsky • 1 night at George Palace hotel 3* (Chernivtsi) https://georg-hotels.com/ru/ • 2 nights at Reikartz Medieval 4* (Lviv) https://reikartz.com/uk/hotels/medievale- lvov • 1,5 nights at Milano hotel 4* (Odesa) http://hotelmilanoodessa.com/ • Join-in tour to Chernobyl • ESG and entrance fees as per program • Car as per program • Train tickets: Kyiv – K-P (2nd class); Chernivtsi – Lviv (2nd class); Lviv – Odesa (1st class) • Meals: BB, lunch in Chernobyl • Optional tours are not included in price 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) Optional tour to Belgorod-Dnestrovskyi Fortress. It is the biggest fortress in the country, and a unique monument to the defensive architecture of the 13th -15th centuries. Despite its 'venerable' age and the historical events to which it was a first-hand witness, the fortress managed to preserve its original structure, and today it is considered to be the best-preserved medieval fortification facility in Ukraine. Optional Tour to Shabo Wine Culture Center with tasting Everything here is breathing with history yet inspires with innovation. Every connoisseur of noble beverages visiting Shabo’s marvelous 200-year-old Royal, Sherry and Two-Level Cellars, underground wine storage, and other facilities will receive a unique opportunity to learn about the history of winemaking and see Shabo terroir with his own eyes. Shabo Wine Culture Center’ includes objects of modern art, majestic architectural complexes, unusual exhibits of landscape design – the only monument to a grapevine in Ukraine, Grapevine Trilogy art ensemble, Shabo Art Center, Dionysus’s Fountain multimedia sculpture, a museum labyrinth, Georgian marani, two museum film auditoriums, Alpine hill, Shabo Museum – won’t leave anyone indifferent. And that list of unique features is far from being complete Shabo winemakers have no secrets from consumers, and therefore, doors to all premises of our company are open before Shabo Wine Culture Center’s visitors: a state-of-the-art grape receipt and processing facility, a huge underground wine storage, elite Shabo wine section, a powerful Shabo brandy and grape vodka production complex, and Shabo Sparkling Wine House. Moreover, all that is right next to Shabo terroir vineyards. For the convenience of our guests, Shabo has an original store offering the entire range of Shabo products, which includes over 80 brand names of the highest-quality beverages and where you can also buy souvenirs. Next to Shabo Wine Culture Center is Shabo Court, a cozy restaurant where you can wash down any meal with an excellent choice of Shabo’s still and sparkling wines, vermouths, brandies and grape vodkas. Arrival to Kyiv Meeting the guide at the airport and transfer to the hotel Check-in Overnight • Breakfast at the hotel • 10:00 – 18:00 – Full day guided tour of Kyiv 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. The 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. Tour to Kyiv Pecherska Lavra Monastery Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is the most famous sight-seeing object in Kyiv, which has been included in UNESCO World Heritage Register. Monastery Complex has been wonderful ornamentation and fame of Pechersk for ages. It is the object of worship of all Orthodox world. Monastery Monks Antony and Feodosiy founded it in 1051. Walk along Podil district – the most ancient part of Kyiv St. Andrew’s church – the best and finest representative of Ukrainian baroque and joking monument to unfulfilled love. It is impossible to visit Kyiv and never visit Andriyivskyy Descent (Uzviz) – here you can buy everything from souvenirs to art masterpieces. Podil is the living history of Kyiv, its legend, mixture of ancient and modern aspects. Podil is also famous for its amazing festivals and fairs. Here you can find Kontraktovuy house, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and other historical monuments. Free evening Overnight • Breakfast at the hotel • Join-in full Day tour to Chornobyl Zone • 7:20-Gathering at group spot; 07:45 Departure 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 Chernobyl. Stop in the village of Zalissya with almost 700 abandoned houses (uninhabited) Discover the town of Chernobyl – the busiest part of the zone nowadays. Almost 5000 people work and live there in shifts. Radiation background in the town of Chernobyl is lower than in Kyiv. • The main square of the town of Chernobyl/memorial “The Wormwood Star” • Statue of Lenin (one of the few remaining in Ukraine) • Abandoned Synagogue • Chernobyl river port with sunken boats and ships • 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 of Kopachi 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 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant • Cooling towers of the Chernobyl NPP 3rd generation (pass by) • Unit 5, unfinished reactor of Chernobyl 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 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.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 • Obligatory radiation control at 30km zone checkpoint • Late lunch at Chernobyl Cafe • 16:30 - 18:00 Departure to Kyiv • Overnight Breakfast at the hotel Free morning 14:20-Transfer to the train station 14:55 – 22:50 Train to Kamianets- Podilsky 22:50 Arrival to K-P, meeting local guide at the train station, transfer to the hotel.