Zarvanytsya 2000
14 days
July 12 - 25, 2000
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Escorted all-inclusive tour.
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New York - Kyiv - Lviv - Yaremcha - Chernivtsi - Ternopil
- Lviv - New York (plus Hrushiv, Hoshiv, Univ, Pochaiv, Pidkamin, Ivano-Frankivsk,
Kolomiya, Kamyanets-Podilskiy, Hoverla National Park, and more); highlight
of the tour - participation in the national pilgrimage to Zarvanytsya1.
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First class rail (Kyiv - Lviv) and private motorcoach.
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First class hotels.
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All guided tours by private motorcoach with bilingual English/Ukrainian
guides. Guided sightseeing even on travel days (no "dumb rides").
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Three meals daily (including special national cuisine and
farewell dinners) starting with lunch day of arrival ending with breakfast
day of departure (total 36 meals).
PROGRAM
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follow the hyperlinks in the text;
for printing we recommend the long
version of this program
(site descriptions are in the same document)
Day 1 (Jul-12 Wed.) New York (JFK)2.
Departure for Kyiv (KBP) via Warsaw (WAW) on LO-007/LO-751 at 18:35
EDT.
Day 2 (Jul-13 Thu.) Kyiv
Arrival in Kyiv (KBP) at 14:15 local time3,
motorcoach transfer to the hotel.
Lunch at the hotel4.
After lunch - a tour of Kyiv.
Day 3 (Jul-14 Fri.) Kyiv
In the morning - visit to Kiyevo-Pecherska
Lavra.
Lunch downtown. After lunch - a brief visit to the Podol area
where many souvenir stores, galleries, etc. are located.
Early dinner. Transfer to the rail station.
Departure for Lviv by first class (two-berth compartments) overnight
train #92 at 19:51.
Day 4 (Jul-15 Sat.) Lviv
Arrival in Lviv at 07:34. Transfer to the hotel.
After breakfast - tour of Lviv.
After lunch - excursion to the National
Museum (Section of Sacral Art).
From the Museum we will proceed to St. Michael Studites Monastery.
Visit to the monastery's icon workshop to see the collection of 13th-20th
c.c. icons (many of them were found, saved and restored by the monks),
including the unique 13th c. icon of St. George. A brief lecture on how
the icons are created; meaning and traditions of Ukrainian iconography,
saving of icons during the years of persecution and their restoration.
Dinner at the Monastery.
Day 5 (Jul-16 Sun.) Lviv
In the morning - visits to the local History Museum (including
the Hall of Jan III Sobieski with its unique collection of treasures).
Lunch downtown.
In the afternoon - visit to the Historical
Park "Shevchenkivskiy Hai"
Day 6 (Jul-17 Mon.) Lviv- Univ (Mehzyhirya)
- Hlynyany - Lviv
After breakfast - day trip to the Univ
Holy Assumption Monastery.
Lunch at the Monastery.
On the way back - visit to the local church in Hlynyany to see
the famous icon of Mary, Mother of God, that miraculously restored itself
in the early 1920-ies.
Day 7 (Jul-18 Tue.) Lviv - Pidkamin -
Pochaiv - Lviv
After breakfast - day-trip to Pochaivska
Lavra and Pidkamin.
Lunch en route.
Day 8 (Jul-19 Wed.) Lviv - Hrushiv -
Hoshiv - Ivano-Frankivsk - Yaremcha
En route to Yaremcha we will visit The Holy Trinity Church in Hrushiv and the Hoshiv Monastery.
En route - a brief stop in Ivano-Frankivsk
for lunch and to see the Old Town.
Day 9 (Jul-20 Thu.) Yaremcha - Hoverla
National Park - Yaremcha
Visit to the Hoverla National Park.
National Hutsul cuisine dinner at the "Hutsulshchyna" Restaurant.
Day 10 (Jul-21 Fri.) Yaremcha - Kolomiya
- Chernivtsi
After breakfast departure for Chernivtsi.
En route - visit to the Museum of Traditional Carpathian Crafts
in Kolomiya.
Upon arrival - a brief tour
of Chernivtsi.
Day 11 (Jul-22 Sat.) Chernivtsi
- Khotyn - Kamyanets-Podilskiy - Ternopil
After breakfast - departure for Ternopil via Khotyn
and Kamyanets-Podilskiy (it is worth every extra mile).
Lunch en route.
Day 12 (Jul-23 Sun.) Ternopil - Zarvanytsya
- Lviv
After breakfast - departure for Zarvanytsya
to take part in the national pilgrimage1.
Lunch en route to Lviv.
Day 13 (Jan-24 Mon.) Lviv
All day free for individual activities (like last-minute shopping for souvenirs).
Farewell dinner.
Day 14 (Jul-25 Tue.) Lviv - New York
After breakfast - transfer to Lviv Airport (LWO) for flight LO-766/LO-006
to New York (JFK)2
via Warsaw (WAW) at 11:15 local time3.
Arrival in New York (JFK) at 16:45 EDT.
RATES PER PERSON
Complete tour $2,450
Land only $1,750
Single supplement $390
Organize your own group of 15, and pay only for international air
and Ukrainian visa
FREE LAND PACKAGE for
15 paying persons
Save $1,625
just by printing out the long version
of the program and talking to your friends
or simply by e-mailing it to
them
HOW TO BOOK
To book directly with us e-mail to euroscope@prodigy.net
Please, specify:
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whether you would like to buy complete package or land-only version;
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if you are going to buy land-only version, please, tell us how you plan
to arrive in Ukraine and return home2;
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number of persons and how many of them require single accommodation;
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country of residence and citizenship (by default we assume that both are
US).
To book through your travel agent, please, print this page
out, take it to your travel agent and ask him/her to contact us at euroscope@prodigy.net.
Please, note that, if booking the land portion of the tour through a
travel agent, you will not be eligible for our FREE LAND
PACKAGE offer.
INFO FOR TRAVEL AGENTS AND TOUR RETAILERS
The land portion base rate minus visa fee (1,750 - 125 = $1,625) is 5%
commissionable to agents/retailers. If you provide 15 paying persons, you
will be eligible for our FREE LAND PACKAGE offer (higher
value) instead of the commission.
You may also get commission of the international air by simply buying
the land-only version from us and making the air reservations for your
customer yourself, but make sure you observe all the conditions set
forth in
footnote 2.
Please, contact us at euroscope@prodigy.net
for any additional information.
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