Crimea

7 days/6 nights

1st day
Arrival Simferopol Airport.
Transfer to Yalta with guide (2 hours).
Check-in hotel.

2nd day
Sightseeing tour of Yalta and visits to the palaces (7 hours):
 • Visit to the Livadiya Palace
In February 1945 in White Livadiya Palace there was the Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of three states including in the Antihitler coalition: USSR, USA and Great Britain. On this conference the destiny a post-war peace was decided. This event promoted the world popularity of Livadia. During this excursion you can acquaint with Livadia history, palaces’ building, with staying of imperial family in Livadia, with the Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the great states.
 • Lunch at a restaurant with a beautiful view on the Swallow’s Nest
Possible menu: salad, soup, meat with garnish, dessert, tea or coffee, water
 • Visit to the Vorontsovsky Palace
The summer residence of Count Vorontsov has become a masterpiece of creative imagination of the in architects, builders and gardeners. Today it is the most visited museum of Crimea acquainting with the life and culture of nobiliary Russia in 19th century.

3rd day
Half-day tour (5 hours):
 • Visit to the Nikitsky Botanic Garden.
 • Visit to the Massandra winery. Excursion and wine-tasting.

4th day
Daytrip to Sebastopol (12 hours)
Visit to the Panaroma Museum, Ruins of Khersonesus and the Count Wharf.
On our planet there are some places, which names excite desire to visit them at least once. Sebastopol is among them - the city of immortal military glory. It is young, but twice it had to keep an exam on courage and it has passed it with honour.
An acquaintance with city begins from the famous Grafskaya pristan (the Count wharf), Primorski Park, the monuments to Nakhimov, Kasarski, to the Flooded ships. You get known the history and the contemporary life of city admire Sebastopol coves and panorama of Southern side. You will hear the fascinating story about the roles of Yekaterina II, Potyomkin, Suvorov, and Lasarev in the history both becoming of city and its fleet.
Lunch at a restaurant with a beautiful view on Balaklava Bay
Possible menu: salad, fish soup, fish with garnish, dessert, tea or coffee, water

Walk along Balaklava bay and visit to the Museum of Submarines (Museum of Cold War).

5th day
Spare day.

6th day
Daytrip to Bakhchisarai (10 hours)
Probably, anywhere in Crimea you cannot feel a flavour of the Middle Ages so completely and deeply as in Bakhchisarai and its neighbourhoods. According to the writer of an old guidebook: "rarely who decides to pass Bakhchisarai and to deprive himself of a chance to see this reference corner, where among Europe the pale appearance of Asia took shelter. The former palace of Crimean Khans - Khan-Sarai takes the first place among the numerous monuments of the architecture of the Middle Ages - mausoleums, mosques, medrese, eastern bath-houses. Everything here is admirable for the visitors - lattices on the narrow windows, thin towers of minarets, halls touched by time, ingenious inscriptions, with luxuriant verdure of arbors and shade of internal yards, "The Fountain of tears" glorified by A. Pushkin in his poem "the Bakhchisarai fountain" drops crystal moisture. The exposition placed in former Khan palace tells about a medieval history of Crimea, mode of life and traditions the Crimean Tartar and the culture of this nation.

Visit to Uspensky Monastery and Chufut-Kale cave town.

Lunch at a restaurant. Tasting Tatar’s cuisine.
Possible menu: appetizers, soup, meat, dessert, green tea, water

Visit to the Khans Palace.

7th day
Check-out (12:00).
Transfer to the Simferopol Airport with guide.

Tour cost per person in EUR

Included:
 • 3 lunches
 • Transfers and excursions by comfortable vehicle
 • English-, German-, French-, Polish-, Spanish-, Italian- or Russian-speaking guide
 • Entrance fees