Itinerary: Kaliningrad (with Baltiysk) – Curonian Spit-Rybachiy (with Yantarny & Svetlogorsk & Zelenogradsk) - Kaliningrad
8 days/7 nights
Kaliningrad: arrival in Kaliningrad in the morning, meeting at airport. Transfer to the City Centre, sightseeing tour “Kaliningrad – the territory of the history”: visit to the Cathedral (the architecture monument of 14th century) at the wall of which the tomb of the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant is situated. Tourists will walk along the fishing village, can see remaining defensive fortifications: city gates, “Kronprince” barracks, “Dona and “Oberteich” bastions, in general – Kaliningrad city transformed on the eve of 2018 football world championship in Russia. Transfer to a hotel*** (“Kaliningrad” or “Moskva”). Accommodation, free time at leisure, overnight.
Please note: Optionally possible a concert of organ music in the Cathedral during visit at 1st half of day – entrance fees – EUR 5.50 per person
Kaliningrad: Tour to Baltiysk – the western outpost of Russia
After breakfast visit to Baltiysk: the most western Russian town with a rich history, nowadays it is a huge navy port of Russia located in the Baltic. During a bus-walk excursion tourists will get acquainted with the main attractions of Baltiysk: Pillau Citadel, 200 years-old lighthouse, Russian promenade built and so named in the mid of 18th century. You can stroll along the promenade of a man-made sea channel. You can see a panorama of the Vistula Spit and the Sea Gate of the ice-free port of Kaliningrad.
Please note: optionally after the above excursion we offer to take part in a water cruise on a comfortable boat along Kaliningrad canal and Pregol river. Return to Kaliningrad to the hotel. Overnight.
Kaliningrad – Rybachiy (Curonian Spit): After breakfast a tour along Amber sea coast: in the beginning we offer you to visit the only in Russia Museum of one mineral – “Amber Museum” which contains masterpieces from amber of 17th-18th centuries, the world’s second largest stone weighing 4.28 kg. Surprise and delight will cause the richest in Russia collection of amber samples with inclusions. Then you will visit Yantarny settlement. Yantarny settlement is a unique place where about 90% of world amber are reserved. During the excursion the tourists will get acquainted with the history of the settlement, to walk through the dendrological Park and the wide beach which the 1st one in Russia received the ecological certificate “Blue flag” in 2016. The programme includes a visit to the observation desk of Primorsk quarry, the only place in the world where mining amber industrially in an open way and processing at Amber plant. The tourists will get acquainted here with history, technology of production and further processing amber, and will be able to test themselves in the role of amber miners to get and take with sunny ambers as memory. After that transfer to Svetlogorsk town – a recognized tourist centre which is called “Little Switzerland”. The peace and harmony are here in this amazing beautiful town. Tourists will appreciate this taking a walk. Then transfer to Rybachiy settlement to Hotel “Altrimo”***, accommodation, overnight.
Rybachiy – “A day of exploring the Curonian Spit”
After breakfast a full day tour to Curonian Spit – unique corner of nature which is included in the UNESCO list of monuments of world cultural heritage. During the excursion tourists can admire from the height of 61m (walnut dune Epha) the beautiful scenery of the spit, to watch wandering dunes which are the highest ones in North-Eastern Europe and both bodies of water: the Baltic Sea and the Curonian lagoon, to visit the banding birds station at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. And of course to take a stroll on the wide beach of the Baltic coast. Return to the hotel, overnight.
Rybachiy: After breakfast free time at leisure: tourists can visit the beach, ride bike in Rybachiy settlement or take a stroll through pine forest. Overnight.
Rybachiy: After breakfast if you have double entry-visa to Russia optionally you can visit Lithuanian part of the Curonian Spit: to climb on Witch Mountain in Juodkrante which is one the most beautiful sand dunes. Then you can visit Nida – a popular resort town and the Thomas Mann Memorial Museum. Return to Rybachiy to the hotel. Overnight
Rybachiy: After breakfast a walk excursion to Muller Height, then a master-class in cooking a fish soup – ukha, picnic. Return to the hotel, free time at leisure, overnight.
Rybachiy-Kaliningrad: After breakfast check-out at the hotel, a half-day tour to Zelenogradsk – the most picturesque resort of Kaliningrad region: a walk along town streets, then transfer to the airport, departure for home by flight … .
Included services:
- transfers upon arrival and departure;
- accommodation at the above hotels on the itinerary in dbl/twin rooms, BB
- picnic according the programme
- excursions and tours according the programme
- guide and transport services according the programme
- entrance fees to museums according the programme
Optional excursions are available
NOT included:
- air tickets from home to Kaliningrad and vice versa
The package price is valid for a group of 10 PAX and more
The tour can be organized in period; May, 2018 – September, 2018; except – June, in June confirmation of the tour - on request only!