The Excursion Programm for Group Tourism (Odessa in 3 days)

Odessa in 3 days Day 1..................................................................... Day 2..................................................................... Day 3..................................................................... Other excursions...................................................

First Day

The first day begins from the meeting of the tourists and transfer them to the hotel. Later you will have the dinner. Then the program includes: excursion round up the city by bus called "The Black Sea Pearl". The first part of this substantial excursion consists from seeing of such places: the center of the city, Arcadia, Big Fountain, French Boulevard (here the rest - bases and sanatoriums are situated, and also botanical gardens, a factory of champagnes and wines and film studio are here), Shevchenko Avenue, Pushkinskaiya Street and Tamozhennaya Square, the Sea-Port, the old streets of thecity and other sights of Odessa.

The second part of this excursion includes: a walk tour through the most interesting quarters Odessa, Primorsky Boulevard and Dumskaya Square. You will see amazing architectural monuments, like: the Opera House, Philharmonic Theatre, The City Parliament (in Ukrainian "Rada"), Theatrical and Sobornaya Squares, the other theatres and museums. You will enlarge your knowledge about the city with the help of many fascinating stories about the famous names of Odessa, such as: A. Pushkin, Duke de Richelieu, Count Vorontsov, the monument "12 chairs", the monument of "Orange" and many other things. You will visit the Art Museum. It is situated in the old palace of Pototskaya family. Here you will have a chance to be acquainted with magnificent collection of the most interesting masterpieces of painting, graphic arts and sculpture. You will discover for yourself the world of old Russian icons, the works of famous Russian portraitists and also "Gold resource" of the picture gallery - pictures of Ayvazovsky, Kostandi, Kuindgy, Vereshchagin, Vrubel and many others.

After the Art Museum, you will be placed in the hotel and then will have free time for to have a walk through Primorsky Boulevard, the Sea-Port, Seaside Parkway and Potemkin Stairs. In the evening you can visit the main street of the city Deribasovskaya, where you will find different entertainments for your taste and choice. Here you will have a chance to be acquainted with different kitchens. Necessarily try the real Odessa food and real Odessa bee in the world famous restaurant "Gambrinus". The best beer you can try in the private brewery in the City Gardens. The best Odessa restaurants are: "Fanconi", "Boulevard" and "Dacha". If you prefer eastern kitchen, you should visit Japanese restaurant "Yokohama" or "Tokyo House" and Chinese "Hong Kong". And you also can breathe the real eastern odour in "Hookah number 1" on Sobornaya square. Do you choose European food? You will find it in "Steak house", "Irish Pub" or in "Bavaria". Ukrainian kitchen such restaurants can suggest: "Kumanets", "Ukrainskaya Lasunka", "Vasilisa" and "Balalayka". After supper you can have romantic trip in the phaeton through the historical part of the city.

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Second Day

The day begins with breakfast and after it we go to discover new interesting places of the city. On the second day we suggest you the excursion "The temples of Odessa". For a long time we were turn into atheism but what means to be a believer? Why we belief that God is one, but the world knows many different religions? Why our religion is called orthodox? Who do we see on the icons? Why a monk lives alone? You will receive the answers on these and many other questions during this excursion. For many years Odessa has been the center of pilgrimage, leading to the relics of Palestine, Rome, Constantinople, Sinai and Athens. During this excursion you will learn about birth, destruction and revival of Odessa temples and about history of Odessa relics. And you also will visit Cathedral, where the icon of Casperovskaya God's Mother is, Saint-Uspensky men's monastery, Odessa Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral and others churches and temples.

After excursion, the dinner and free time will have place. You can also have excursion "See Voyage" (elective excursion), it is the sea voyage on the boat, where you will be able to enjoy immense spaces of the boundless Black Sea. Friends, you are really in Odessa!!! Especially for our guests: folklore - culinary show "Odessa Feast" (elective excursion). Here you will taste original Odessa kitchen, enjoy really Odessa humor and wash down with exclusively Odessa wine (elective excursion). After excursion, come back to the hotel.

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Third Day

After breakfast you will have bus excursion to the "Odessa Catacombs" (elective excursion) situated in Nerubaiskoe village. You will visit unique underground museum, connected with the partisan movement during the Second World War. This museum is at a depth of twenty meters. The exposition of the museum represents weapon and the things for everyday life and also you will see the example of the partisans' camp.

Excursion "A riddle of White City" (elective excursion) is in the city Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy. This city is situated 80 km from Odessa. This is fascinating excursion to the fortress Ackerman in Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy city. Ackerman was contemporary of Athens and Damascus, Rome and Beirut, Yerevan and Tripoli. Sources of the destiny of this ancient city are more than 2500. During this time the city was occupied by different tribes and people, each of them gave different name to the fortress. Till our time cunningly more than two tens names the city had, but all of them anyhow were translated into Russian as the White fortress which many centuries cost on the rocky rocks - towers, bastions, court yards, guns, kernels, stories and histories. Transfer after excursion.

The price ( in USD) of the tour for one person:

The cost of the tour includes: the room in the hotel you will choose, breakfast, dinner, the excursions according to the program, transfer, guide and interpreter. Additional payment: elective excursions: "Sea Voyage", "Odessa Feast", "Odessa Catacombs" and "A riddle of White City".

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