Kostroma Holidays
Sample Itinerary - REF RUSSIA 131
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Day 1: St Petersburg
Welcome to Russia! Upon arrival we will pick you up from the airport and transfer you to your hotel for the evening.
Day 2: St Petersburg
This morning we visit Peter and Paul Fortress, home to the SS Peter and Paul Cathedral, housing the tombs of the Romanov monachs. This afternoon enjoy a guided tour of the Hermitage, where you will be taken to see the highlights of this incredible collection and the beautiful baroque palace that houses it.
Day 3: St Petersburg
Today visit Pushkin (Catherine palace and park) and Yusupov palace. This beautiful 18th century palace was once the residence of the Yusupov's, the richest family in Russia and the site of the most legendary and mysterious episodes in Russian history occurred - the murder of Rasputin in 1916.
Day 5: St Petersburg - Moscow
This morning will be at your leisure before we transfer you to the train station for a fast train departing approx. 13:30 to Moscow arriving approx. 18:00. Upon arrival we will pick you up from the airport and transfer you to your hotel the Maxima Panorama or similar for the evening.
Day 6: Moscow
Today enjoy a half day guided tour of Moscow’s most famous sites including a view from Sparrow Hills, walk at Red square and a visit to Lenin's Masoleum.
Day 7: Moscow - Suzdal
This morning we tour the Kremlin (territory, cathedrals, Armoury). If time permits we will visit Vladimir, alternatively we will travel onward to Sudzhal and have a tour of Bogolubovo en-route.
Day 8: Suzdal - Kostroma
Today you will have a city tour of Suzdhal including Suzdal Kremlin and Museum of Wooden Architecture. We then travel onward to Kostroma, known as the ‘Cradle of the Romanov dynasty’, as it was home to first Tsar of the Romanov Dynasty.
Day 9: Kostroma - Yaroslavl
Today we will have a city tour of Kostroma including a visit to Ipatiev Monastery and Trinity Cathedral. We then we will drive to Yaroslavl and enjoy a city tour to Spasso-preobrazhensky cathedral and Church of Elijah the Prohpet.
Day 10: Yaroslavl - Moscow
Today enjoy the sights of the lakeside town of Rostov Veliky. Here you will enjoy a city tour including a visit to Rostov Kremlin and the Enamel museum. We then continue onto to Sergiev Posad (if time permits) and visit the Trinity Sergius Lavra before continuing back to Moscow.
- Karelia
- Kostroma
- Moscow
- The Kremlin
- KGB Headquarters
- Red Square
- St Basils Cathedral
- Lenin's Mausoleum
- Inside a Soviet Bunker
- Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre
- Moscow State University
- Novodevichy Monastery
- Novgorod
- Olkhon Island
- Petropavlovsk
- Pskov and Pechory
- St Petersburg
- The Hermitage
- St Isaacs Cathedral
- Peterhof
- Catherine Palace
- Peter and Paul Fortress
- The Church on Spilled Blood
- The Bronze Horseman and Decembrists Square
- Smolny Cathedral
- Suzdal
- Vladimir
- Vladivostok
- Volga River
- Yaroslavl
- Yekaterinburg
Vladivostok
On Russia's far Pacific coast, Vladivostok (Lord of the East) represents the end of the original Trans-Siberian line. An attractively ...
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