“Hidden Treasures between St. Petersburg and Moscow” (authentic local experiences)
5 days/4 nights’ program
Itineray in brief
St. Petersburg - Novgorod Veliky - Valday - Torzhok - Tver’ - Klin - Sergiev-Posad - Kolomna - MoscowDay 1. Full-day sightseeing/Novgorod Veliky
AM Drive from St. Petersburg to Novgorod Veliky; Visit of the Kremlin, St. Sophia Cathedral; Open-air museum of wooden architecture Vitoslavitsy; Museum of Russian icon
Dinner local restaurant
O/night at the hotel Yurievskoye Podvorie
Day 2. Full day sightseeing/Valday-Torzhok
Breakfast at the hotel
AM Valday visit/Iversky Monastery
Lunch at local restaurant
Drive to Torzhok/Goldwork Embroidery Museum
Dinner local restaurant
O/night at the hotel Staroyamskaya
Day 3. Full day sightseeing/Tver’-Klin
Breakfast at the hotel
AM Drive to Tver’/city tour
PM Drive to Klin/Tschaikovsky House-Museum; Klinskoye Compound Museum with Christmas decoration workshop (learning to hand paint glass Christmas decorations); private transfer to the hotel with ES guide; eco farm excursion with beer degustation at the brewery
Dinner traditional shashlik barbecue at eco-farm
O/night at the Eco Farm
Day 4. Full-day sightseeing/Sergiev-Posad
Breakfast at the hotel
AM Drive to Sergiev-Posad; Sergius-Trinity Monastery visit; matreshka or icon painting (master class) with tea ceremony
Dinner local restaurant
O/night at the hotel Barskye Palaty
Day 5. Full-day sightseeing/Kolomna
Breakfast at the hotel
AM Drive to Kolomna/city tour; welcome ceremony with “bread and salt” near the Kremlin walls/Russian folks with traditional clothes; master class at blacksmith’s; Pastila factory with tea and degustation; Drive to Moscow
The package includes:
- Private transfers to and from the airport
- 4 nights’ accommodation in local hotels and a farm stay
- Luxury air-conditioned vehicle
- European breakfast daily
- evening meals as specified
- lunches s specified
- Entrance fee as specified in the program
- Master classes and local experiences as specified in the program