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Crimea Tour 1 Crimea Across Centuries and Nations
Sevastopol - Balaklava - Bakhchi Saray - Yalta - Simferopol
Description:Spend 6 days in Crimea, with daily bus trips along the Black Sea coastal zone of Crimea. Stay in Sevastopol. Take bus trips and walks to historical, religious, ethnic and natural sites. This tour is perfect for those who are not used to walking too much. Your bus will be with you everywhere, and all walking excursions will be refreshing and pleasant. At the same time, the tour is very intense. You will touch the charm of beautiful nature, take excursions to monuments and museums of history, visit centers of religion, marvel reflections of ethnic cultures of Crimean citizens, see subtropical seaside resorts, and watch everyday life of ordinary Crimeans.
Itinerary:
Day 1
Arrive to Sevastopol. Sign into central city hotel. Have lunch in central city. Visit Khersones nature preserve and museum and the Khersones Cathedral. Dinner in central city. Evening walk about central city, about Bolshaya Morskaya street to Art Buhta, Primorsky Boulevard, and Grafskaya Pristan'.
Day 2
Breakfast in the hotel. Morning trip to Balaklava city and harbor. Take pictures of beautiful seaside landscapes and old Kalamita fortress on the rock, facing the open sea. Attend museum of Soviet Navy and Submarines. Optional - take a boat trip to open sea and to the beach surrounded with rocks which can only ne reached from the sea. Have lunch in a fisherman's restaurant in Balaklava harbor. Return to Sevastopol. Visit Panorama of Sevastopol. Late afternoon and evening: free time. Options: visit souvenirs market at Primorsky boulevard, attend a theater, watch a ballet show of Yelizarov's dance theater, visit a night club or a variety show.
Day 3
Breakfast in the hotel. Set on a full day trip along the Black sea coast. Visit Foros park and take a refreshing time on the beach. Proceed to Livadia park and palace. Take an excursion about the palace and proceed to Yalta. Have lunch in Yalta. Have a short walking excursion about Oreanda park and then have some free time to walk about central Yalta and to buy souvenirs. Go to Massandra. Take an excursion about Massandra vinery plant and wine cellars, attend wine tasting ceremony and visit the wine store at the plant. Return to Sevastopol by 8pm. Night life: take a 3-hour bar-boat trip to open sea in the evening.
Day 4
Breakfast in the hotel. Take all day bus trip to Nikitski Botanic Gardens. On the way to the botanic gardens, visit famous Swallows Nest and take pictures of beautiful rocks and seaside. After the excursion to Nikistki botanic gardens, visit Yalta for the second time. You will take a 2-hour romantic boat trip along the coast. On the way back, have dinner at Yalta's Bristol restaurant and walk about the main city street, Naberezhnaya. Return to Sevastopol by 9pm.
Day 5
Breakfast in the hotel. Take all day bus trip to the Coast again. Start with visiting Baydarski Vorota church in the mountains. Proceed to Alupka. Take a refreshing walk about the Alupka's park and swan ponds, and attend an excursion to Vorontsov's palace. Return to Sevastopol by 6pm. Evening, optional excursion: take a boat trip about Sevastopol military harbor.
Day 6
Breakfast in the hotel. Sign out of the hotel. Take bus excursion to Bakhchi-Saray. Excursion to the Tatar Khan's palace. Proceed to the Chufut-Kale Cave Monastery and have a walking trip about the mountains. Enjoy beautiful natural sites of Crimean high mountain plateaus and survey ancient scyphian cave towns in the rocks. Arrive to Simferopol. Have dinner in a Ukraine national kitchen restaurant Knyazha Vtiha. Proceed to the airport (train station) and take your flight (train) to your next destination.
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