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7-Day History Tour To The Highlights Of Odesa, Kiev & Chernobyl
  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Architecture, Culture, History

  • Duration

    7 Days

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English, Russian

Description

See the best of Ukraine and learn about its history on this 7-day tour, starting from Kiev. Marvel at the architecture of Kiev as you see its buildings, factories and visit the National Museum of the History of Ukraine. Watch the remains of the Chernobyl zone, check out the museum of Strategic Missile Forces and visit the highlights of Odesa, like the catacombs and the Philharmonic Theatre Building.

Highlights
  • Stroll around Kyiv, a town famous for its Soviet architecture
  • Visit the Chernobyl Xone for a glimpse of the apocalypse
  • Watch over the Museum of Strategic Missile Forces
  • See the historical monuments of World War II at Odesa
  • Explore the underground catacombs in Odes
  • Day 1: Arrival in Kyiv expand_more
    • Meet your tour representative at the airport and transfer to the hotel.

    Enjoy your free time while in the hotel.

  • Day 2: Explore Kiev expand_more
    • Have breakfast at the hotel.

    • Depart from the hotel for a sightseeing tour in Kyiv, a city of great socialist history, with its typical grey Soviet architecture, blended with modern, vibrant buildings, is the Ukrainian eclectic of the twenty-first century.

    • The abandoned factories, the usual residential areas of the city, as the monuments of the past, will meet us at almost every step. 

    • Discover the images of the famous Kiev, its ancient past, the golden-domed churches, and ancient monasteries through the monument to the founders of Kyiv, the panorama of the Kievan city from the observation place, the Museum of the Second World War and one of the suburban metro stations - Arsenalna.

    • Take time for lunch.

    • Excursion to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. 

    Enjoy your free time.

  • Day 3: Excursion to Chernobyl zone expand_more
    • After breakfast at the hotel, take a lunchbox and tour the Chernobyl zone.

    • Return to Kyiv.

  • Day 4: Kyiv – Museum of Strategic Missile Forces expand_more
    • After breakfast at the hotel, take a bus transfer from Kyiv to Pobuzke.

    • Depart to Museum of Strategic Missile Forces. 

    • Take a bus transfer to Odessa.

    • Check-in to the hotel.

  • Day 5: Odesa & Kuyalnik resort expand_more
    • After breakfast at the hotel, go for a sightseeing excursion with a guide around the main interesting attractions of the city.

    • You will see French Boulevard, city resort Arcadia, old district Moldovanka, the Philharmonic theatre building, World War II monuments, maritime passenger terminal, and other famous Odessa locations.

    • Take time for lunch (included).

    • Excursion to Kuyalnik resort. Kuyalnik Estuary (from Crimean Tatar Kuyanlık - thick) or Kuyalnik, located on the northwest coast of the Black Sea, north of Odesa. 

    • Enjoy the rest of your free time at your leisure.

  • Day 6: Underground Odesa expand_more
    • Have breakfast at the hotel and check out of the hotel.

    • Underground excursion to Odesa catacombs.

    • Transfer to Odesa railway station.

    • Board a night train Odesa-Kyiv.

  • Day 7: Depart from Kyiv expand_more
    • Meet at the railway station and transfer to the airport.

What's Included
  • Accommodation in hotel 3* (rooms for two persons) with breakfasts

  • All airport and railways transfers

  • All mentioned excursions with local (Ukrainian) guides (English guide service)

  • A vehicle with a driver during the sightseeing program

  • Night train tickets (compartment class)

  • Museum entry tickets and attraction fee

  • Visa support

  • Insurance (medical expenses, accident)

What's Excluded
  • Visa fee

  • Airplane tickets

  • Additional lunches & dinners

  • Car/guide at disposal

Know before you go
  • Ukraine was the second-largest Soviet Republic in ex-USSR. That's why you can find here a lot of memories and monuments of Soviet history: Chernobyl zone of nuclear catastrophe, museum of the nuclear military missile base, and Odesa catacombs.

  • National Museum of the History of Ukraine: This memorial complex commemorating the German-Soviet War is located in the southern outskirts of the Pechersk district of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on the picturesque hills on the right bank of the right the Dnieper River. The memorial complex covers an area of 10 hectares (approximately 24.7 acres). It contains the giant bowl "The Flame of Glory", a site with World War II military equipment, and the "Alley of the Hero Cities". The sculptures in the alley depict the courageous defence of the Soviet border from the 1941 German invasion, terrors of the Nazi occupation, partisan struggle, devoted work on the home front, and the 1943 Battle of the Dnieper. One of the museums also displays the armaments used by the Soviet army post World War II.

  • Chernobyl and Prypyat' are not objects for all tourists. If you visit these places, you will never be the same again. Some time ago, on the world's map appeared Chernobyl and then Sarcophagus – the monument of human carelessness. It is a story of the largest technological disaster. The spirit of a dead city will give you a feeling of a joyful life and apocalypse. The exclusion zone atmosphere gives you a clear understanding of the price of human failure.

  • Museum of Strategic Missile Forces: You will see the weapons that could destroy the planet in this museum. The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces was created on the territory of the former missile base and command post. Here you will find out about the mine-launching unit, an underground command post with a former nuclear button, cargo and ground buildings, models of equipment that served the missile army, rocket and rocket propellant models: P-12, X-22N, X-22NA cruise missiles, Х-22МП. Also, you will see the most terrible and largest missile in the world - RS-20V (SS-18, with the well-known name Satan).

  • Kuyalnik: In history, Kuyalnik Estuary had many different periods. The resort was severely damaged during World War II - the German military destroyed the mud baths and health resorts. After the war, a long time, Kuyalnik resort was in decline. After establishing Soviet power, the health resort was rebuilt, and Kuyalnik became the largest mud and spa resort in the Soviet Union.

  • Odessa catacombs, the most famous in the world for their intricate labyrinths and the length that reaches almost three thousand kilometres.For comparison: the length of the Roman catacombs – three hundred, Paris – five hundred kilometres. The system of Odessa Catacombs includes underground structures like basements, bunkers, drainage tunnels, other storm drains, and natural caves.

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
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1 To 4 USD 1275 Per Person

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