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And we want You to know and love it, too

Region:  Ivano-Frankivs'k Zakarpattya L’viv Kyiv City

Dates: 

Number of days: 8

Cost: 14370  UAH

DAY 1.ARRIVAL TO KYIV. CHECK – IN.

Arrival to Kyiv, meeting at the airport. Transfer to the hotel and check-in.

In free time, we suggest you visit the Museum of Ukrainian Nation Making.

The first innovative museum of Ukrainian history, where the past is combined with modern technologies. It was created a state-of-the-art museum in which the glorious chapters of our history come to life. It will take you only 1,5-2 hours to get acquainted with the centuries-old history of the Ukrainian nation. You will see 25 exhibits featuring historic scenes with absolutely realistic 3-D figures of national heroes — kings, hetmans, military leaders, scholars, artists and sportsmen.

Each installation has interactive audio and video content as well as special effects, that immerse the visitor into the atmosphere of the respective era and, of course, media - guides in 8 languages.

 

The Museum of Ukrainian Nation Making - is the museum of the future.

DAY 2. GALA KYIV SIGHTSEEIN TOUR + BOTANICAL GARDEN

Breakfast at hotel.

“Kyiv, the City of Legends” sightseeing tour. See this powerful and glorious city in all its beauty: Podil, Pechersk, Lypky, the picturesque banks of the Dnipro River, and the MaidanNezalezhnosti.There’s nothing like Kyiv’s panorama, with its modern skyscrapers and its golden-domed churches. Next, we descend to Khreshchatyk with its chestnuts and fountains, the heart of Kyiv and probably of all of Ukraine.

Time for lunch.

“Kyiv through the Ages” walking tour. As you explore Kyiv through the ages, you will see some of the most wonderful monuments and sites in the capital of Ukraine. Here is Kyiv close-up: The ZolotiVorota or Golden Gates, St. Sofia Cathedral, the old citadel “whence the land of Rus began,” AndriyivskiyUzviz with its beautiful Andriyivska Church. You will see for yourself why Kyiv is called both ancient and eternally young!

National Botanic garden visiting

The garden covers 1.3 km² (120 hectares) and contains 13,000 types of trees, shrubs, flowers and other plants from all over the world. It is the popular place for rest amongst the residents, where one can see the large collection of unique and rare exotic plants. The territory of the garden is divided into floristic complexes, such as Ukrainian Carpathians, Plains of Ukraine, Crimea, Caucasus, Central Asia, Altai and Western Siberia, Far East.

DAY 3. MEZHYHIRYA RESIDENCE & SHOPPING

 

Breakfast at hotel.

Tour to “Mezhyhirya” – the residence of former president Yanukovych and a great place for excursions since recently.

“Mezhyhirya” residence is located on the high right bank of the Dnieper river. The main “club house” neighbors with artificial ancient ruins. Along the Dnieper there is an embankment with the grand ship-restaurant.There are also several lakes with swans,a ditch farm, pheasant, horse farm, a zoo, a shooting gallery, tennis courts. All the residence is surrounded by vast hunting grounds, some of which are more likely a fairy-tale forest created by the genius of landscape design.

After the enthralling excursion on comfortable and fast electric cars we will also visit an exhibition of president’s Yanukovych cars andcynological center with kennel of Tibetan mastiffs.

Return to Kyiv.

Time for lunch.

Transfer to one of the biggest Kyiv shopping centers. Time for shopping. 

DAY 4. KYIV –  LVIV

Breakfast at hotel. Check-out.

Transfer to Lviv.

Arrival to Lviv. Time for lunch. Check – in at hotel.

Sightseeing tour by bus around  Lviv, the cultural center of Western Ukraine and the modern-day capital of Halychyna. Sometimes called “Little Paris,” Lviv welcomes guests with its Medieval beauty, preserved in buildings from the 14 th and 15 th centuries, Gothic churches and narrow cobbled streets. Among the sites worth visiting are the Church of Sviatoho Yura or St. George’s Church, the Lviv Polytechnical Institute, the Organ Hall, and the buildings of the one-time Halych Sejm or legislature, prospekt Svobody and Adam

Mickiewycz Square. You will tour the Ratusha or City Hall and enjoy a bird’s eye panorama of this beautiful city.

Night Lviv tour.

Tour by night Lviv – “Nichna Varta” starts at 22:00 near the cafe of the Gasova Lampa museum.

The Burgomaster will tell you and show Lviv, which you will not see it in, in the night of darkness, in the light of a kerosene lantern, will tell you about Lviv "glamorous" - as we see it in the pictures of retouched old photographs, and about Lviv real with its divisions on Quarters - Russian, Jewish, Armenian ... with its stories.

DAY 5. LVIV – IVANO – FRANKIVSK – YAREMCHE - BUKOVEL

Breakfast at hotel.

Road to Bukovel.

Visiting Ivano-Frankivsk - the capital of  Prykarpattya. The main difference is an advantage of the spirit of modern over the atmosphere of typical Galician provinciality.

Along the way, we visit the Carpathian souvenir bazaar in Yaremche and take a walk to the Prut rapids.

Arrival to Bukovel. Check – in at hotel.

Bukovel is the largest ski resort in Eastern Europe situated in Ukraine. The resort is located almost on the ridge-lines of the Carpathian Mountains at elevation of 900 m above the sea level near the village of Polianytsia. Also, it is one of the most popular ski resorts in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains.

 

 DAY 6. BUKOVEL – VERHOVYNA - KRYVORIVNYA

Breakfast at hotel.

Transfer and introduction to Verkhovyna.

The impenetrability of the mountains kept civilization and urban culture at bay for many centuries. Here you will catch a glimpse of many fascinating customs, traditions, rituals, folklore and legends that disappeared long ago from other parts of Ukraine. Even in other corners of the Carpathians, they have not always been well preserved. Visit the Roman Kumlyk Museum of Folk Musical Instruments.

Time for lunch.

Depart for Kryvorivnia.

Nestled in a deep valley, this tiny village 7 km from Verkhovyna saw the lives of many famous Ukrainians cross paths, drawn to its picturesque location and extraordinary energy. Here you will see the Hutsul Grazhda or Homestead, the small mountain fortress in which the mountain people once lived. Kryvorivnia is also home to the wooden Christmas Church, build according to the local architectural traditions and one of the oldest in Ukraine.

Returne to Bukovel. Free time. 

DAY 7. BUKOVEL –DOVBUSH ROCKS - LVIV

Breakfast at hotel. Check – out.

Departure to Lviv.

Visiting “Dovbush Rocks” -  group of natural and man-made structures carved out of rock at around 980 m in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of western Ukraine. The name of the formations comes from a leader of the opryshky movement, Oleksa Dovbush.

 

Arrival to Lviv. Check- in at hotel. Free time. 

DAY 8.  DEPARTURE

Breakfast at hotel. Check – out.

Road to Kyiv.

Transfer to airport. Departure.

INCLUSIONS IN TOUR PRICE:

•       HOTEL ACCOMMODATION;

•       BREAKFAST;

•       AIRPORT TRANSFERS;

•       ALL MENTIONED EXCURSIONS (GUIDESERVICE EVERY DAY);

•       VEHICLE WITH DRIVER;

EXCLUSIONS IN TOUR PRICE:

•       VISA FEE;

•       CAR AT DISPOSAL (EXCURSIONS OR TRANSPORTATION BEYOND THE CITY OF LOCATION BORDERS ARE PAYNMENT. IF YOU DECIDE  TO GO SOMEWHERE, PLEASE ASK THE PRICE TO THE LOCAL AGENT);

•       MUSEUM ENTRY TICKETS OR ATTRACTION FEES

                                         TOUR PRICE

PAX/ HOTEL	COSMOPOLITE HOTEL KYIV 4*/ REIKARTZ MEDIVAL LVIV 4*/ RADISSON BLU BUKOVEL 4*	PRICE, $
15	STANDART TWIN/ DBL ROOMS	641
30		532