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Time to Visit Russia 10 days/9 nights Moscow – St.Petersburg
The cost of the tour:
  • 4* hotels in Moscow and St.Petersburg centrally located R24200 per person sharing
  • The cost of the tour 3* hotels in Moscow and St.Petersburg
  • Cost of the tour 18800 per person sharing
    prices subject to currency exchange rate fluctuations

  • DAY ONE
    Arrival to Moscow
    Meet and transfer from the airport or railway station to the hotel and check-in

    DAY TWO
    Breakfast at the hotel. Moscow All Around - Hop on Hop off tour
    The bus tour of Moscow which, if it is your first visit to Moscow or you are not familiar with the capital, is an excellent way to see the exterior of famous buildings and places. Our 13 stops provide you with the opportunity to visit the places of your interest and then return back to the next bus , ticket is valid 24 hours. Daily 10:30 am. 1:30 pm. 3:30 pm.
    This tour is a great start to your trip and the best way to get acquainted with many of the city’s major highlights. Professional guide will escort you on a route that includes Vorobyevi Hills where you will get an incredible view of the city from an observation point, you will proceed to Moscow State University which is an example of architecture from the time of Stalin, then on to Novodevichiy Convent, the Diplomatic Village, Victory Park, the Triumphal Arch, Kutuzovsky Prospect, Moscow streets , squares and much

    DAY THREE
    Breakfast at the hotel.
    Visit Kremlin Grounds, Cathedrals and Patriarch’s Palace tour
    by foot with English-speaking guideThe small city in the center of Moscow, once the residence of Czars and Patriarchs, contains Russia's main cathedrals, Assumption Cathedral, Archangel's Cathedral and Resurrection Cathedral. The Patriarch's Palace is a Museum of Seventeenth-century Life and Applied Art, displaying ecclesiastical regalia, period furniture, gold and silver ware from Russia and Western Europe. The palace was begun in 1640 and it incorporates the Church of the Twelve Apostles, which was the private place of worship for the patriarchs.

    Monday - Wednesday, Friday - Sunday, Thursday - day off
    from 11:00 am - to 2:00 pm;
    from 2:00 pm - to 5:00 pm

    Optional: in the evening circus or theatre Circus by mentro - euro 30 - 35 euro per ticket ;theatre depending on the performance from euro 70 pp and more.

    DAY FOUR
    Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out 12:00 noon .The tourists can keep their luggage in a cloak room.
    Taganka Secret Bunker and Metro Tour Have a chance to see an underground world of Moscow, including both "underground" as a huge transportation system and a former secret nuclear center located more then 65 meters underground. You will have a chance to walk through the secret tunnels of the former secret bunker and touch soviet military equipment. You will have a great chance to see that Moscow underground world is fascinating and unique .Enjoy “Soviet Union “lunch ( Thursday only )
    Around 21:30 tourists will be transfer to the railway Station to catch the train to St.Petesburg .
    First class 2 berth compartments s Moscow - St.Petersburg train

    DAY FIVE
    Continental breakfast on the train. Arrival to St. Petersburg
    Meet at the railway station
    City tour & Peter and Paul Fortress by car with English speaking guide
    The tour will take the visitor throughout the historical center of St. Petersburg and includes spectacular views of the Neva river, Canal Griboyedova, Moika, the many bridges connecting the city islands, the Old Holland area of the city and trips to the 2 main islands of Petrogradsky and Vasilevsky. The tour will introduce the visitor to Nevsky Prospect – the city’s famous boulevard, the Winter Palace, other palaces and churches and to the areas of the city formerly inhabited by Dostoyevsky, Rasputin and numerous Russian princes and counts. You will then visit the Peter and Paul Fortress. The fortress was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. Besides the ancient fortifications, the fortress includes the Peter and Paul Cathedral, built in the early XVIII century. The cathedral includes the burial vault of Peter the Great and other Russian Tsars, the museum of Trubetskoy Bastion prison and the expositions: The History of St. Petersburg, History of the Imperial Mint as well as a printing workshop and the museum of space exploration and missilery. It is also possible to walk along the walls of the fortress and observe the fabulous architecture of the surrounding areas.

    DAY SIX
    Breakfast at the hotel We will provide with tickets to Hermitage (to avoid queuing) and tourist can enjoy the world famous museum on their own.
    The Hermitage is one of the greatest museums in the world. The museum consists of five historical buildings including the Winter Palace – the residence of the Russian Tsars. The museum contains over 3 million pieces of art with dates ranging from high antiquity to the present day. Among the Hermitage’s treasures are artworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens and a large collection of impressionists and post impressionists including Matisse

    DAY SEVEN
    Breakfast at the hotel
    Suburb tour of Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo) Pavlovsk about 5-6 hours
    . Pavlosk was built in the late XVIII and early XIX centuries, the palace and park was used as a summer residence for emperor Paul I and his family. The landscape park, one of the largest in Europe, covers an area of 600 hectares. The museum in the palace displays an excellent collection of portraits by Russian artists and a number of Pavlovsk landscape paintings and drawings. Residential rooms of the Empress Maria Fedorovna are enrapturing with their harmonious beauty and are open the public. You will then visit Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo). The Palace and Park of Tsarskoye Selo is a former country residence of the Russian emperors. It is a fascinating monument of the world’s architectural and gardening arts of the XVIII-XIX centuries. Its 3 parks occupy an are of 600 hectares on which are located over 100 architectural monuments: from magnificent palaces and grand monuments to intimate pavilions and park sculptures. The center of Tsarskoye Selo is Catherine’s Palace, containing exquisite decorative objects, furniture, Russian and Western-European paintings, unique collections of porcelain, amber, arms and decorative bronze sculptures.

    DAY EIGHT
    Breakfast at the hotel.
    Excursion -Suburb tour of Peterhof and fountains about 5 hours by car with English speaking guidePeterhof is a jewel of Russian art – a town of parks, palaces and fountains. In the past, it was used as an exquisite summer residence by the Russian Tsars. Verkhniy Garden and Nizhniy Park, are genuine masterpieces of landscape design. They include over 150 fountains and 4 monumental cascades. Within the park, there are 10 museums: the Grand Palace, Monplaisir, Catherine’s Block, Marli, Hermitage, the church of St. Alexander Nevsky (Gothic Capella), the Benois family museum, the Cottage, the Bath Block including Tafeldecker and Kaffeeschenk Rooms, the Kitchen and the Museum of Collecters. The exposition of the special treasury and the private room of Catherine the Great in the Block under the Armcoat of the Grand Palace are all open to the public.

    DAY NINE
    Breakfast at the hotel. Leisure

    DAY TEN
    Breakfast at the hotel.
    Check out at 12:00 at noon Transfer to the airport.

    Tour includes:

  • Accommodation at hotels on bed and breakfast basis in accordance with the hotel category requested
  • Entrance tickets to the Museums mentioned above
  • Railway tickets Moscow – – St.Petersburg 1-st class train tickets –accommodation in 2-berth compartments *Private transfers upon arrival and departure in each city on the itinerary
  • In Moscow: Moscow All Around - Hop on Hop off tour city tour by coach with Capital tours ,
  • Kremlin tour by foot from Capital tours accompanied by English speaking guide
  • Taganka Secret Bunker and Metro Tour
  • St.Petersburg :city tour and Peter &Paul Fortress by car with English speaking guide
  • Hermitage entrance tickets
  • Visit Pavlovsk and Pushkin palaces by car with English speaking guide