Kyiv – Odesa – Lviv : 7 nights 8days

• Arrival to Kyiv. Meeting at the airport.Transfer to the hotel. Check in (guaranteed after 14:00).

Free time. 

• Overnight at the hotel. 

• Breakfast at the hotel.Tour to Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (bus excursion)

Tour to Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (bus excursion) – the spiritual heart of the capital, one of the first on the foundation of monasteries in Russia. Visit to the Caves, the Uspensky Cathedral, the belfry and the Trinity Church. Visit the Museum of Miniatures - a unique place of its kind, which contains well-known work of skilled craftsmen, and are 33 times smaller than its current size! Here you can really feel the city - in your hand! Visit the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine. The museum features highly artistic products made ​​of platinum, gold, silver, decorated with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other precious stones. The exhibition includes a collection of Scythian gold, art products Sarmatian tribes, ornaments of the ancient Slavs and the Kyiv Rus, the product of the Byzantine and Iranian masters.

Visiting of Nikolai Syadristy’s Museum of Microminiature and Historical Treasures Museum.

Excursion duration – 4 hours.      

• Lunch.Walking tour to ancient Podil

Andriivsky Descent it is a street-museum, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Kyiv. The buildings along the street, art galleries, exhibitions, theater and art workshops. There are numerous open-air souvenir shops. Here lived and worked many famous figures of science and culture, scientists, writers, composers, painters, sculptors. Here is the Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov, Museum of One Street, Richard Castle, Staint Andrew's Church, through which the descent was named in the 18th century.

You will walk through the ancient Podils’ streets with his unique energy and a lot of historical places such as Kontraktova Square, Gostynnyi Dim, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and many others. To hear interesting stories about the famous people of Kyiv, who lived at Podil.

• Free time. 

Overnight at the hotel. 

• Breakfast at the hotel. Check out of the hotel.City tour with visiting Saint Sophia (bus excursion).

City tour with visiting Saint Sophia (bus excursion). With the 1500 years history, which was the capital of ancient and mighty power – The Kyiv Rus. You can see Saint Volodymyr Cathedral, Saint Sophia Cathedral – the first monument in Ukraine listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was built in XI century by the Order of Yaroslav Mudry; Starokyivska mountain – the historical Kyiv center, it is here was situated “Grad” of Kyi, Olha, Volodymyr and all Princes Kyiv; Mykhailovsky Zlatoverhy Monastery, which is unique by its architecture and painting, is the first cathedral with golden domes of Kyiv; The Golden Gate, one of four fortifications crossing the city of Kyiv. Excursion duration – 4 hours.    

Lunch.

Free time.

• Transfer to the railway station. Moving to Odesa.

Overnight at the train.

• Transfer to the hotel. Check in (guaranteed after 14:00). Bus city tour.

Bus city tour. You will get acquainted with the most beautiful places and sights of the city, visit the historical sites, the beautiful city park named by Taras Shevchenko, where the ancient city wall, you will see and be able to walk around the cozy streets: Pushkinskaya, Richelieu, Lanzheronovskaya and, of course, very favorite by Odesans, Deribasovskaya. You will meet with a masterpiece of architecture - Theatre of Opera and Ballet, as well as historic buildings, which are artistic, archaeological, marine and other museums. You can walk through the magnificent winter and summer, Primorsky Boulevard, where the City Council, the palace of Count Vorontsov with a colonnade, a monument to Duke de Richelieu. Enjoy a wonderful view overlooking the marina, harbor and sea. Here we introduce you to the famous Potemkin Stairs. On the tour bus you can take a stroll through the old districts and streets of our city.

Excursion duration – 3 hours.      

• Lunch. Free time.

Overnight at the hotel.  

• Breakfast at the hotel. Check out of the hotel. City walk tour Odesa yards.

During the tour you will see the most unusual Odesa neighborhood: this is the famous Odesa Moldavanka yards, with numerous wooden galleries (remember the movie «Liquidation»); it courtyards where Odessa criminals evaded detectives; it courtyards marked elements of Odesa «yard sculpture» in which people from Odesa put monuments to famous personalities - where else do you meet a monument to the inventor of Esperanto? You will visit elegant Odesa courtyards: Palais-Royal (Odesa - a small Paris), Italian courtyard of the Odesa Philharmonic, yard art and, of course, patio Literary Museum - Sculpture Garden, which houses monuments are presents to us from the famous Odesa sculptors.

Excursion duration – 3 hours.      

• Lunch.Free time. Transfer to the railway station. 

Moving to Lviv

Overnight at the train. 

• Transfer to the hotel. Check in (guaranteed after 14:00).Bus excursion “Secrets of medieval Lviv”.

Bus excursion “Secrets of medieval Lviv”. Did you know that there are more cafes and restaurants in Lviv that in other cities of Ukraine and Lviv is the most visited city of Ukraine? In Lviv you can drink coffee in the Italian courtyard, visit the residence of the Polish king and one of the first pharmacies, which has become a museum? You can get acquainted with the culture of the four peoples: Ukrainian, Armenian, Polish and Jewish during one excursion... And much more.

Excursion duration – 4 hours.   

• Lunch.Free time.

Overnight at the hotel. 

• Breakfast at the hotel. Excursion at 10.00 till 18.00 Golden  Horseshoe (Olesko Castle-Pidgirtsi Castle-Zolochiv Castle.)

Olesko Castle. For five hundred years (14th - 18th c.) Ukraine had been subjected to the continuous savage raids of the mounted Tatars. Now You have a good chance to go on a tour to the land of mysterious old castle and secluded abbeys (70 km to the East from Lviv). You will be able to appraise masterpieces of the “Olesky Castle” Museum-Preserve (14th – 18th c.c.), to learn a lot of interesting about the other strongholds of the Lviv Region. (The castle was founded as a fortress in the 14th century by one of Yuriy Levovych’s sons, the Duke of Galych and Volyn.  In the 15th century, it served as a residence for local nobility and was reconstructed into a splendid palace complex in the Italian renaissance style. The Polish King Yan Sobieski III and Mykhaylo Korybut Vyshnevetsky were born in that castle, and the Ukrainian Hetman, Bohdan Khmelnytsky grew up here. The Olesky Castle is now a museum, which houses valuable collections of 16th century icons, paintings, sculptures and furniture).

Pidhirtsi Castle was constructed in 1635-1640 by order of Polish Hetman Stanislaw Koniecpolski, on the site of an older fortress. The castle was then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and is now considered one of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands of the former Commonwealth.

Zolochiv Castle (66 km from Lviv) was built as a citadel with bastions in the 1630s by Jakub Sobieski. Inside Zolochiv Castle you can see Chinese palace, a diminutive mauve-colored rotunda flanked by one-storey wings. It was built in late 17th century as Jan III's gift to his French-born wife Marysenka. After Jakub Ludwik Sobieski's death in 1737, the castle passed to the Radziwill princely family and then (in 1801) to Count Lukash Komarnitski whose heirs sold it to the Austrian crown in 1834. From this date the castle was adapted for use as a hospital and barracks. In the days of Austro-Hungarian Empire it was turned into a prison and later became a grim prison under Stalin. A memorial and an exhibition to commemorate those who perished here can now be seen in the castle as well as a chapel outside the castle walls.

• Lunch. Free time.

Overnight at the hotel. 

• Breakfast at the hotel. Check out. Transfer to airport in Lviv.

 Flight to home.