7 Nights / 8 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: 4 Days 3 Nights Destination: Kyiv – Chornobyl - Odesa Departure/Return Location: Kyiv/Odesa Departure Time: Every day / throughout the year 2021 Transport WE USE • 10-12 pax - Mercdes Sprinter 18+1 seats • 14-20 pax – Neoplan 30+ seats OPTIONAL TOUR «Odesa Catacombs» 3 hours, with ES Guide, entrance fee and transportation Per 1 person in 10 – 33 USD Per 1 person in 12 – 30 USD Per 1 person in 14 – 28 USD Per 1 person in 20 – 26 USD INCLUDED: 1. Accommodation at the hotel UKRAINE 3 nights in Standard Room 2. Accommodation at the hotel PREMIER ODESA 4 nights in Standard Room 3. All transportation on private basis 4. ES Guide as per program 5. Meal plan – as per program (3-course meal + breakfasts) 6. All excursions as per program (+ insurances for tour to Chornobyl) 7. VIP Testing during the tour to Shabo Winery 8. Small souvenirs 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) • Arrival to Kyiv • Meeting at the airport and transfer to the hotel UKRAINE • Check-in • Welcome dinner at the Ukrainian cuisine restaurant O.B. • Evening walks to the hotel • Overnight • Breakfast at the hotel • 09:30 – 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 Feodosiya founded it in 1051. 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. • 12:30 – excursion to NSC Olympic Stadium It is an unforgettable event for all the family, a great opportunity to look behind the scenes of the largest stadium of Ukraine. The National Sports Complex Olimpiyskiy is the biggest stadium among other stadiums that hosted EURO 2012 matches. It is an exciting, informative, and interactive tour for people of any age group. The stadium can seat 70,050 people, but during the EURO 2012 Tournament only 68,055 seats was used. The stadium has been renovated with all the advanced technologies applied. In its appearance a lot of glass was used. The roof, made of translucent plastic materials, covers 100% of the seats. The infrastructure meets the UEFA requirements for an elite class stadium — it has a new security system, enough exits, and entrances. The stadium is equipped with advanced information and computer techno logy systems. The NSC Olimpiyskiy was the main stadium for the EURO 2012 Tournament. The final match and the closing ceremony were held there. A unique program will give you the opportunity to see the most secluded sports of the arena, evaluate luxury of executive class sky boxes and walk along lounge and VIP zones admiring all-around views of the main sports arena of Ukraine of Elite class. • 14:00 – 15:00 - Lunch at the restaurant PERVAK/traditional kyivan cuisine • 15:00 – 17:00 - Excursion: Around old streets of Podil The excursion is intended to acquaint people with one of the most beautiful and oldest districts of Kyiv, with Podil, its history and charms. The monuments of the XVII-XIX centuries have been saved and restored in Podil: • Kyiv-Mohyla Academy • the fountain "Samson" • Guest's yard • Petro's house There are also variety of temples: • the church of The Virgin Pyrogoscha • Florovskyi convent • Ylynskaya church The tourists would wander along the streets where the heroes of Gogol and Stariskyi used to live, where Vovchok used to create and the Decembrists used to gather. • 17:30 - 1-hour cruise along Dnipro river • 19:00 - Transfer to the restaurant • 19:30 - Dinner at the restaurant SHYNOK/traditional Ukrainian with folk show • 21:00 – transfer to the hotel • Overnight • Breakfast at the hotel • 09:00 – 19:00 - Full Day tour to Chornobyl Zone • 9:00-Pick up at your hotel and departure to Chornobyl. 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. 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. 1. The main square of the town of Chornobyl/memorial “The Wormwood Star” 2. Statue of Lenin (one of the few remaining in Ukraine) 3. Abandoned Synagogue 4. Chornobyl river port with sunken boats and ships 5. Memorial “To those who saved the world” 6. 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 Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant 1. Cooling towers of the Chornobyl NPP 3rd generation (pass by) 2. Unit 5, unfinished reactor of Chornobyl NPP (pass by) 3. Panoramic view of CHNPP 4. New Safe Confinement ("Arch") – visitor`s site at 250 m distance 5. NPP cooling channel (feeding giant catfish – available May to September) 6. Memorial "Life for Life” in front of the main administrative building of NPP 7. 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. 1. Prypiat welcome sign and decontaminated Red Forest area 2. Bridge of death 3. Prypiat hospital 126 4. Prypiat ferry terminal and riverside café with amazing, laminated stained glass windows 5. Prypiat town hall –after 1986 – main headquarters for military and liquidators 6. Polissya hotel 7. The main square of the ghost town 8. Palace of culture “Energetic”, the biggest entertainment center of Prypiat 9. Supermarket building 10. Restaurant building 11. Bumper cars in the amusement park which was never opened 12. Iconic Ferris wheel, the most famous spot in the entire Chernobyl zone 13. Prypyat stadium “Avangard” which is slowly turning into a forest 14. Swimming pool "Azure", which had been in operation until 1996 15. Middle school of Prypiat 16. Fire station of Prypiat 17. Please note, it is officially forbidden to enter buildings in Prypiat as it is unsafe. Top secret military base Chornobyl -2 and Duga OTH Radar 1. Radiation check at 10km zone checkpoint 2. Obligatory radiation control at 30km zone checkpoint 3. Late lunch at Chornobyl Cafe 4. 17:30 - 19:00 Departure to Kyiv 5. 20:00 – Dinner at the hotel • Breakfast at the hotel • 09:00 –check-out and departure the Strategic missile forces base (298 KM) • 12:00 – Tour to the Strategic missile forces base Till the beginning of 1994 this defense base had 176 missile complexes, which were armed with 130 missiles type PC-18 (CC-19) and 46 missiles type PC-22 (CC-24) with 1272 nuclear warheads. In addition, Ukraine had 2500 units of tactical nuclear weapons. Between 1988 and 1991 all missiles were eliminated. On the 46th base it was offered by Americans to create a museum. And it was done! This museum is located around 300 km south from Kyiv on the way to Odesa. The excursion consists of 2 stages: introduction about a history of military forces inside and outside the museum and visiting of underground command post. It will take 2 hours. All guides are former military men who served at this base. The high light of the trip is being a descent 33 m down to the bottom of the Unified Launch Control Center! You can take an underground corridor to the massive doors which lead to a self-contained silo-based 12-storey Command Post which could function sealed from the outside world for 45 days.