July 20-27, 2019: Tour «To See Russia in the Urals»

The cost of the tour:

Full price — 47500 RUB (single room), 40500 RUB (double room)

Reduced fee (pensioners, students) — 46500 RUB (single), 39500 RUB(double room)

Our advantages:

• 9 museums, 16 tours, including geological excursion with the search of stones, Ice Cave, Ural mountains.
• The circular route, through which every day you are introduced to a new area of the Urals.
• Hotels 3 and 4 stars with buffet Breakfast (except hotel «IREN» in Kungur, 1 night, budget hotel after renovation). Rooms category «standard». Hotels in the city centre, so in the evening you can walk through the historic center.
• The guide’s travel story for the entire route.
• In Ekaterinburg is one of the most modern Russian airports — «Koltsovo» (the beautiful and spacious building with lots of duty-free shops and a café with a good cappuccino).
• Our guides know where you can buy the products from the Ural jewelry and gemstones at friendly prices.
• The lunchers and dinners include delicious desserts.

Tour programme:

Day 1 (Saturday)

Arrival at hotel «Park Inn by Radisson, Ekaterinburg» 4* (98, Mamina-Sibiryaka Str.). From the airport you can book a taxi +7(343)310 10 10 (economy), 272 72 72 (comfort). Luggage can be left for free in the hotel Luggage room until the time of check-in.

09.00  meeting with the guide at the lobby of the hotel  at the reception Desk. City tour of Ekaterinburg: Main Square, Church on  the Blood, St. Alexander Nevsky Novo-Tikhvin women’s monastery, City Dam and Pond, President Centre, Opera Theatre.

• Excursion to the Urals geological Museum: 4 floors, more than 40 000 exhibits, most «small» exhibit — crystal «baby», weighing 784 kg.
• time to purchase Ural Stone Souvenirs at the Museum.
  Lunch
• Excursion to the homeland of Russian gold — the town of Berezovsky (12 km from Ekaterinburg) with a visit to the training mine and the Museum of Russian gold.
• 17.00  arrival at the hotel.

Travel tips

• To purchase additional night before the tour to get some sleep before the start of the tour program.
• You can climb to the observation deck of the skyscraper «Vysotsky»(Malysheva street, 51) — 52 floor with a great view of the city and Utal mountains (in sunny days). Cost: 300 RUB/ adult, children and senior citizens with a 20% discount. Operates on weekdays from 13.00 to 22.00, on holidays from 10.00 to 22.00. the last lift at 21.30. Beautiful photos of Ekaterinburg from the observation deck.
• The hotel itself has a restaurant where you can order dinner. Near the hotel (5-10 minutes walk) are a few cafes where you can dine: dining room «Fork and spoon» (Lenin’s Avenue, 48, and Karl Liebknecht, 13), Ural signature restaurant «the Factory-kitchen» (Lenin Ave., 69/1, specials Ural dumplings), «Tralee Wali» (Lenin’s Avenue, 50), «Pizza Mia» (Karl Liebknecht, 16), the restaurant «Dumplings-club» (Lenin Ave., 46, entrance from the street Krasnoarmeyskaya).
• Large food store is right next to the skyscraper «Vysotsky»in the shopping center «Antey» on the first floor (street Malysheva, 53).
• Souvenirs from a stone: shop «Amethyst» street Malysheva, 43; store «Passage» street Weiner, 9, on 1 floor of the store is «the Magic stone».

Museums

• Museum of history of Ekaterinburg, street K. Libknehta, 26, open until 20.00, ticket office to 19.00. Ticket price — 200 rubles per adult/.
• Memorial Museum of p. P. Bazhov: Chapaeva str., 11, is open until 18.00, ticket price 200 RUB/adult, 100 RUB. /grace.
• Art Museum of Ernst Neizvestny: Dobrolyubova str., 15, cost of an adult ticket 150 RUB., preferential 70 rubles., while working to 19.00, admission until 18.30.
• The President center: St. Boris Yeltsin, 3A. Open until 21.00, admission until 20.00. In the center there is a cafe. Ticket price – 200 — 350 RUB/ adult, 100 RUB/ pensioners and children.
• Museum of History of stone-cutting and jeweller art Lenin Ave., 37. Open until 18.00, admission until 17.00. Cost 250 RUB/ person
• Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts: street Vojvodina,5. Open until 19.00, admission until 18.30. Cost 250 RUB/ person

Day 2 (Sunday)

• 08.00 Breakfast (buffet)
• 09.30 Departure to the emerald mines
• Quarry for the extraction of asbestos (length 11 km, the depth of 350 meters)
• Mining Place of of the First Russian emeralds, visit the observation deck of the acting career of the Mariinsky emerald Deposit; tour of the village of miners — Malysheva;
• Search of semi-precious stones on the piles of the Mariinsky Deposit: chrysoberyl, quartz, and others;
• Lunch
• A visit to the stone cutting factory, monitoring the process of treatment of stones;
• Master class on working with stone. You will be able to make a small stone souvenir, treating the Ural stone!
• 20.00  return to the hotel.

Day 3 (Monday)

• 07.00  Breakfast (buffet)
• 10.00  Departure from the hotel, the road to the natural Park «Deer streams». Beautiful pictures of the Park «Deer streams».
• Visit the Border between Europe and Asia
• Lunch
• Tour through the natural Park «Deer streams» along the Hiking route. Natural Park «Deer streams» — one of the most beautiful places of the Urals, where you can admire the pristine nature. During a walk along the ecological path you will be able to touch the centuries-old pine trees, which can embrace only 3 people. Also during the tour you will see caves, walk along the picturesque banks of the river Serga with high rocky shores. The ecological path equipped with benches, on the slopes there are steps and railings. So even the most unprepared tourist will be able to overcome the route.
• The road to the town of Kungur
• Accommodation at the hotel
• Dinner

Attention! Instead of walking in the Park You can choose a guided tour with rafting on catamarans on the river Serga (in good weather). The fee for alloy — 1500 RUB/ person (depending on route). The catamarans will be fully prepared, life jackets are mandatory. Minimum group of 5 people. The river Serga is a calm river with no rapids on the route of alloy, with a quiet current. During the rafting offers spectacular views of rocky shores (up to 30 — 40 metres). Possible short stop for swimming — depending on the weather.

Day 4 (Tuesday)

• 07.30 – 09.00 Breakfast at the hotel
• Sightseeing tour of Kungur: Gostiny Dvor, the Tikhvin Church, the monument to Nikita-flyers, gift and sweet shop
• Lunch
• Tour of Kungur ice cave — one of the largest karst caves in European part of Russia, the world’s seventh largest gypsum cave in length. The length of the cave is about 5700m, of which 1.5 km are equipped for visits by tourists.
• The road to the Belogorsky Saint Mykola monastery – Athos of the Urals. Beautiful photos of the monastery. Monastery on the White mountain is one of the main Orthodox sites of the Urals. The mountain offers one of the most beautiful panoramic views of the Urals. In good weather, the visibility up to 50 km from the monastery. 
• The road to the city of Perm
• 18.00 accommodation in the hotel.