1st day
Kyiv |
Arrival in Kyiv. Transfer to the
hotel, accommodation.
City tour including St.Sophia Cathedral.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Optional: Dnieper boat trip. |
2nd day
Kyiv - Kozelets - Chernihiv |
Breakfast. Departure for Kozelets
(66 km) - former Cossack regiment HQ. Tour of Kozelets. Departure for Chernihiv
(80 km).
Upon arrival in Chernihiv - lunch, city
tour.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Chernihiv. |
3rd day
Chernihiv - Baturyn - Chernihiv |
Breakfast. Full day trip to Baturyn,
the capital of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. Lunch in Baturyn.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Chernihiv. |
4th day
Chernihiv - Nizhyn - Kruty - Pryluky
- Sumy |
Breakfast. Departure for Nizhyn
(95 km), town the history of which is inseparable from the history of Cossacks
and Ukrainian enlightenment of 18th-19th c.c. Tour of Nizhyn. Departure
for Sumy (249 km). En route - visits to Kruty (site of combat of Ukrainian
students with Bolsheviks in 1918), and Pryluky
(Cossack town-fortress). Lunch in Pryluky.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Sumy. |
5th day
Sumy - Putyvl - Hlukhiv - Sumy |
Breakfast. Full day trip to
Putyvl (to see architectural
monuments of 14th-19th c.c.) and Hlukhiv
(former Hetman capital). Lunch en route.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Sumy. |
6th day
Sumy - Poltava |
Breakfast. Departure for Poltava
(169 km).
Upon arrival in Poltava - lunch, city
tour and visit to the Poltava Battle site.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Poltava. |
7th day
Poltava - Zaporizhya |
Breakfast. Departure for Zaporizhya
(277 km).
Upon arrival in Zaporizhya - lunch, tour
of Khortytsya Island, performance of the Cossack
Equestrian Theater and Cossack Song and Dance Ensemble.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Zaporizhya.
Optional: dinner at the Cossack Korchma (national
cuisine and folk show) instead of the standard dinner. |
8th day
Zaporizhya - Kremenchuk - Chyhyryn
- Subotiv - Cherkasy |
Breakfast. Departure for Chyhyryn.
En route - lunch in Kremenchuk around noon.
Tour of Chyhyryn: visits to numerous Cossack sites, including visit
to Subotiv (the birthplace of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskiy). Around 17:00
- departure for Cherkasy.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Cherkasy. |
9th day
Cherkasy - Uman - Khmelnytskiy |
Breakfast. Departure for Uman
(190 km), the HQ of Uman Cossack Regiment, visit to the world-famous Sophiyivka
Park.
Lunch in Uman. Departure for Khmelnytskiy (279 km).
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Khmelnytskiy. |
10th day
Khmelnytskiy - Kamyanets-Podilskiy
- Khotyn - Ternopil |
Breakfast. Departure for Ternopil
via Kamyanets-Podilskiy
to visit one of the richest open-air museums of old architecture and Khotyn
to see one of the biggest fortresses in Europe and the site of numerous
battles of Cossacks. Lunch en route.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Ternopil. |
11th day
Ternopil - Kremenets - Pochaiv -
Ternopil |
Breakfast. Full day trip to Kremenets
and Pochaiv (Monastery of God's
Appearance, ruins of a 12th c. castle, the ensemble of the collegium with
the botanical gardens; Pochaiv Lavra). Lunch en route.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Ternopil. |
12th day
Ternopil - Berestechko - Rivne -
Kyiv |
Breakfast. Departure for Berestechko
(102 km), the site of Berestechko battle.
After the excursion departure for Kyiv (422 km). En route lunch in
Rivne.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Kyiv. |
13th day
Kyiv |
Breakfast. Excursion to the Kiyevo-Pecherska
Lavra (Kyiv Cave Monastery).
Lunch. Tour of Podol.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Optional: visit to the Museum of Miniatures at
Kiyevo-Pecherska Lavra; visit to the Museum of Scithian Gold at Kiyevo-Pecherska
Lavra; visit to the National Opera. |
14th day
Kyiv - Kaniv - Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskiy
- Kyiv |
Breakfast. Full day trip to
Kaniv to visit the Taras Shevchenko
Memorial and Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskiy to visit the Open-Air Ethnography
Museum (historical village). Lunch en route.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Kyiv. |
15th day
Kyiv/end of tour |
Breakfast. Free time (upon availability).
Transfer to the airport. |