Cruise excursion program Moscow (NRT) - Goritsy - Valaam - Sortavala - Pellotsari - Konevetz - Saint Petersburg (Utkina Zavod (Duck B) - Новая Ладога - Kizhi - Белозерск - Moscow (NRT) from 08.08.15 to 20.08.15, Ship «Alexander Grin»
| Port | Excursions | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Myshkin |
Your choice:
1) Walking tour “Visit to the mice at the old mill” with an excursion to the old mill, the Museum of Russian Valenki, the artisans' house and Uspensky (Assumption) Cathedral. Tour length - 2-2.5 hours.
2)Walking Tour for Kids and Their Parents. Visit to the Mouse Palace. (group size: 25+). Tour length – 1.5-2 hours.
3)Provincial Kaleidoscope Walking Tour. A city sightseeing excursion, including a tour of some interesting wooden houses (Shipbuilder’s Thomson House, Myshkin Sheremetyev’s Station), visit to the old mill house with the Barn Mice display, the Victory Memorial, the Dormition Cathedral. (group size: 25+). Tour length – 2.5 hours. | Included in the price of cruise |
| Goritsy |
Bus tour to Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Автобусная экскурсия в Кирилло-Белозерский монастырь с посещением Успенского собора, Монашеской кельи, крепостных стен и церкви Кирилла Белозерского. (вместо основной экскурсии) Продолжительность экскурсии 3 часа. (группа от 15 чел.)
| Group from 15 pax: 1100 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Автобусная экскурсия в Ферапонтов монастырь. (группа от 25 чел.)
Продолжительность экскурсии 3 часа. (вместо основной экскурсии) | Group from 25 pax: 1250 rub. per person | |
| Mandrogi |
Walking tour of the village. As part of the tour, guests will visit the arts and crafts village. Check out the workshops of potters, blacksmiths, and weavers (owners of an ancient loom), and shop for leather goods and Rostov enamel jewelry. Visitors are welcome in the "Old Village", which consists of five hundred-year-old houses, relocated from the Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Верховая езда.
| Group from 1 pax: 1500 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Катание на лошади в упряжке. Продолжительность поездки 30 минут.
| Group from 4 pax: 1000 rub. per person | |
| Valaam |
Your choice:
1) Walking tour “Valaam’s Skits”. You will visit three of Valaam’s skits (hermitages): the Voskresensky (Resurrection), the Gethsemane and the Konevsky. Enjoy the unique natural phenomena of the Valaam archipelago - its flora and fauna. Route distance is 6 km. Tour length - 3.5 hours.(Group size: 15+).
2) Walking tour “Rocky Shore”. The tour introduces visitors to the history of the Valaam Monastery during the Soviet-Finnish and Second World Wars. Savor Valaam’s unique nature surrounded by the Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe. Route distance 6 km.
Tour length – 2.5 hours.(Group size: 15+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Sortavala |
Your choice: 1) City walking tour to Sortavala with a stop at two museums – the private gallery of Kronid Gogolev, a phenomenal wooden relief carving artist, and the local history museum of Northern Ladoga. Route distance - 4 km. Tour length - 4.0 hours.
2) Bus and walking tour to the marble canyon "Ruskeala". The tour runs along the perimeter of the marble quarry. The decorations of St. Petersburg’s St. Isaac Cathedral and Marble Palace are made from Ruskeala’s marble. Visit the private gallery of artist Kronid Gogolev (wooden relief carver). The route distance is 2 km. Tour length – 3.5 hours. (Group size 35+).
The tourists will be transported to Sortavala pier by ferry. | Included in the price of cruise |
| Pellotsari | Eco-Path: One Day of a Taiga Island The rocky taiga island is represented by a great variety of landscapes, flora, and fauna. Pellotsari is covered with forests, mostly of coniferous trees. A circular eco-path of a total length of 3 km has been laid on the island. A non-guided eco-path walk. Over 30 sites are marked along the path. These are natural objects, as well as monuments of human impact. There are information boards and signs at each point of the path. The path is laid with pine boards and fitted with bridges, stairs, and leisure areas. | Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion Trip by speedboat. You will see the picturesque channels and bays of Lake Ladoga and land at Cape Meriniemi with Finnish fortifications preserved from the times of the Second World War. Walk duration is 1 hour 20 minutes. Notes: 1.Water and hiking trips are not carried out in fog or with a wave height of more than 0.5 meters or in other adverse weather conditions, since orientation is impossible due to lack of visibility. 2. Children over the age of 10 are welcome to join the excursion. 3. Drunkenness among tourists is not allowed. Safety rules for tours by motor boats and speedboats: Do not jump the queue while boarding and disembarking from the boats. To eliminate any negative effects of water excursions during boat movement it is prohibited to change seats, to shift loads, to use cutting and piercing objects, to rock the boat or to dive from the board. All of the passengers on the boats must be wearing fastened life jackets. | Group from 6 pax: 1000 rub. per person | |
| Konevetz |
You will visit the central building of the monastery, The Rozhdestvensky (Christmas) Cathedral with the relics of St. Arseny Konevsky, the Wonderworker. Take the forest path to the Holy Mountain and the legendary Horse-Stone, a huge boulder of glacial origin that resembles a horse's skull. Tour length - 2 hours. Route distance - 4 km.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Saint Petersburg |
Your choice: 1) Guided city bus tour will introduce you to the most important city landmarks of the city on the Neva. Water tour – “Rivers and Canals of St. Petersburg” along the banks of the rivers Moyka, Neva and Fontanka. Enjoy the sights as they pass by: Palace Square, Petropavlovskaya Fortress (Peter and Paul Fortress), Mikhailovsky Palace and much more…
2) City bus tour with a stop at Petropavlovskaya Fortress (Peter and Paul Fortress). (Group size: 35+.)
Tour length - 3.5 hours. | Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Tour to Yusupov Palace. This is a unique architectural ensemble of the 18th to 20th centuries, rightfully acclaimed as the "encyclopedia" of St. Petersburg’s aristocratic interior. It was the residence of five generations of the elite aristocratic dynasty of the Yusupov Princes, from 1830 to 1917. The Palace is also the site of the murder of Grigory Rasputin. Today Yusupov Palace is one of the few aristocratic mansions of St. Petersburg with preserved ceremonial apartments, art gallery halls, a mini-theater and the luxurious private rooms of the Yusupov family.
Tour length - 3 hours. | Group from 21 pax: 2900 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Tour “Menshikov’s Palace”. You will visit the palace of prince Menshikov, the first Governor of St. Petersburg. The appearance of the palace is unique. The palace combines Russian traditional and state-of-the-art construction and decoration techniques and forms. Natural marble and “marble-like” painting, monumental and decorative painting and sculpture, antique and contemporary Italian sculpture, carved wood and wood mosaic, painted Dutch cobalt tiles and Russian stove tiles, painted and embossed leather, various fabrics and wool tapestry were used in the finishing and decoration of the rooms.
Tour length - 3 hours. | Group from 11 pax: 2300 rub. per person | |
| Новая Ладога |
Автобусная экскурсия «Знакомство с древними городами России: Новая и Старая Ладога». Вы посетите Староладожскую каменную крепость 12-16 вв., Никольский мужской монастырь. Обед на теплоходе. Экскурсия по Новой Ладоге. Продолжительность экскурсии 6 -7 часов.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Svirstroy |
Your choice: 1) Bus tour to the Holy Troitsky (Trinity) Alexander Svirsky Monastery. Tour length – 3.5 hours.
2): Bus tour to Vvedeno-Oyat Women’s Convent (Group size: 35+).
3) Bus tour to Olonets. Visit to the National Museum of Ethnic Karelians-Livviks. The museum serves as an introduction to the development of the first Karelian city – Olonets, its role in the history of Russia, traditional culture of Karelians-Livviks and their crafts, trades and family rituals. Tour length – 4 hours. (Group size: 35+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Kizhi | Included in the price of cruise | |
| Белозерск |
На выбор: 1) Обзорная пешеходная экскурсия по городу «7 чудес Белозерского кремля» с посещением музеев «Белое озеро» и «Русская изба». Продолжительность экскурсии 3,0 часа.
2) Обзорная пешеходная экскурсия по городу «Поклонимся великим тем годам» с посещением краеведческого музея (зал Воинская слава Белозерья). (группа от 30 чел.) Продолжительность экскурсии 3,5 часа. | Included in the price of cruise |
| Uglich |
Your choice:
2) Tour to the Leather Craft Workshop Museum. Learn about the history of one of the oldest crafts, the leathercraft of Uglich, the production of leather in Russia, the history of the legendary Russian calf leather. Visit an exhibition of antiques and see reconstructed ancient pieces, take a look at original models of leather making equipment of the 17-19th century. Learn about contemporary art: leather carving, embossing, sculptures. At the end of the tour, each of the visitors will be able to briefly become an artisan and create a magnet, take pics with the exhibits, or read his/her fortune on runes. Visit the Alexey Monastery. The tour lasts 2 hours (for groups of 15 people and more).
3) Walking tour to the Hydroelectric Power Museum. (Group size: 20+.)
4) Tour to the Vintage Scooter Bike Museum. Find out about the evolution of the bicycle. The museum displays the 19-20th century bicycles, sports bicycles and leisure bicycles, bikes for adults and kids, etc. Ride any of the museum exhibits! Visit to the Alexeevsky Monastery. Tour length 2 hours. (Group Size: 20+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Visit to museum “History of Russian Vodka”. You will hear the story of Peter Smirnoff, view different types of alcohol stills and see a display of antique bottles. Tour length - 30 minutes.
| Group from 5 pax: 450 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Walking tour to the Hydroelectric Power Museum. (Group size: 15+.)
| Group from 5 pax: 1200 rub. per person Group from 10 pax: 600 rub. per person Group from 15 pax: 400 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Kremlin walking tour with a visit to the Сhurch of Prince Dmitry “On Blood”, the Palaces of the Princes (1st floors), and Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration of the Saviour) Cathedral. Tour length - 1.5 hours. (alternative to the main excursion)
| Group from 10 pax: 650 rub. per person |