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4N MOSCOW – 3N SAINT PETERSBURG
4N MOSCOW – 3N SAINT PETERSBURG
Upon arrival at Moscow Airport, take a transfer to your hotel where you will have some time for leisure until the late afternoon after your long flight and to also adapt to Moscow temperatures. In the evening, depart to see one of the world’s most famous ballet and opera companies– the Bolshoi or alternatively take the opportunity to see Moscow State Circus which is similarly fantastic. Overnight at the hotel in Moscow.
After breakfast, you will embark on a panoramic Moscow city tour where you will be shown the main Moscow sights. The city tour of Moscow will take you to Sparrow Hills to enjoy the impressive panorama of the city; you will pass by Victory Park with its World War II Memorial, the New Maiden (Novodevichy) Convent, the stunning Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the White House and along Kutuzovsky Prospekt with its spectacular Stalinist architecture. There will be a stop on St. Sofia Embankment on the Moscow River to take pictures of the breathtaking panorama of the Moscow Kremlin. Then visit Red Square where you will see the iconic St.Basil’s Cathedral, the GUM Department Store and Lenin’s Mausoleum as you walk over the historic cobblestones. This will be a morning you will never forget. After lunch in a restaurant, you will depart on a once in a lifetime trip inside the Kremlin which is Russia’s political powerhouse, where many infamous tyrants and dictators have conducted their business including Ivan the Terrible and Stalin. Below the glistening gold domes are a series of breathtaking cathedrals and churches within the Kremlin complex. Admire the wonderful architecture and get very close to the heart of Russia. Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Moscow.
Today, after breakfast drive outside the city, 71 km to Sergiev Posad - home of Russian Orthodoxy - a fantastic atmospheric place which is the home of Russia’s Patriarch. Visit the Trinity St.Sergius Lavra (monastery) which is of enormous importance to the spiritual life of Russia. In the 15th Century, the lavra was the richest land owner in all of Russia. You will probably get to see a Russian wedding taking place as they are almost daily events in this holy place for Russian Orthodoxy. The trip to Sergiev Posad normally lasts most of the day. Then drive back to the capital. Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Moscow.
Post breakfast, you can enjoy the day at leisure. Explore by self, as it’s the last day at Moscow. Overnight stay at Moscow.
After breakfast, travel to Moscow’s ornate Leningradsky Station to join the super new high speed express train to St.Petersburg. The train came in to operation in December 2009 and now takes just less than four hours to complete the 600 km journey through the delightful Russian countryside. Sapsan is the name of the mythical Russian firebird and it departs at around 1300 arriving in St.Petersburg 4 hours later. Upon arrival at St.Petersburg you are met in the station and transferred to your hotel. Dinner and overnight at your hotel in St.Petersburg
After breakfast, depart on a panoramic St.Petersburg city tour. In just 300 years, St.Petersburg has become Russia’s cultural capital with a wonderfully preserved heritage and international arts programme. Built to be Peter the Great’s “Window on the West”, the palace lined canals and grand boulevards are stunning and pretty much unchanged since they were built. The tour takes you down Nevsky Prospekt, the city’s main thoroughfare to Palace Square with Hermitage / Winter Palace and across the beautiful river to the Strelka viewpoint. Have several photo stops and time to wander at various points of interest including the Smolny Cathedral, the Field of Mars and Anichkov Bridge. Palace Square in itself, from where the storming of the Winter Palace took place oozes history– one trip to St.Petersburg is never enough! You will also visit inside St.Isaac’s Cathedral, an architectural masterpiece with unimaginable riches inside and Peter and Paul Fortress, the first building of St.Petersburg and burial place of all the Romanov Czars, built in 1703. On top of all this, go on a scenic cruise on the River Neva and several of the canals. After the cruise, head back to the hotel. Dinner and overnight at the hotel in St.Petersburg.
After breakfast, leave for the Hermitage Museum / Winter Palace tour - probably the greatest museum and art gallery in the world. It boasts of an unbelievable collection of art in one of the world’s most beautiful palaces. Visit the Winter Palace State Rooms, home of the Romanovs up until the Russian Revolution in 1917 – the rooms are beautiful – you will see the famous Throne Room, the Malachite Room, the Alexander Hall, the 1812 Gallery and much more. Then move on to the art collection (the Hermitage) where the collection of art is commonly acknowledged as the best in the world. The collection is truly massive and exhibits have to be regularly rotated. There is an unbelievable collection of Leonardo Da Vinci, Monet, Gaugin, Matisse, Picasso, Van Dyk, Rembrandt, Van Gogh etc etc. There are also major collections of prehistoric art, Russian art and lots of exhibits from the lives of the Romanovs – wedding dresses, coaches and carriages and much more. Back to the hotel in the evening. Dinner and overnight at the hotel in St.Petersburg.
In the morning, after breakfast at the hotel, you are given some leisure time for shopping and doing things of your choice. In the early afternoon (after lunch), transfer to the St.Petersburg airport for your flight back home.
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