Ural: between Moscow and Siberia

Tour programme:

Day 1 / Ekaterinburg — the capital of the Ural

• Arrival in Ekaterinburg, transfer to the hotel, check-in.
• City bus tour of Ekaterinburg: Main Square, Church on the Blood, City Dam and Pond, President Centre, Opera Theatre.
• Lunch with Ural local cuisine.
• International Center of Arts «Main Avenue»: Stone Museum and shop, Сollection of stone-cutting masterpieces, Art gallery.
• Observation desk on a skyscraper: a view on Ekaterinburg from the height of 186 meters.
• 19.00 return to the hotel.

Day 2 / Emeralds

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Excursion to the Ural Emerald mines: Mining Place of the First Russian emeralds, observation deck of the acting career.
• Lunch in the town of emeralds miners.
• A visit to the stone cutting factory.
• Ural stones work shop. You will be able to make a small stone souvenir.
• 20.00 return to the hotel.

Day 3 / Plant-giant

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• The giagantic Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant NTMK. You will see:
• the work of the most modern blast furnace in the world, go to the control panel, similar to the remote control of a spaceship;
• a giant boiler turning over with molten liquid metal the color of the sun;
• how miners and steelworkers work.
• Lunch.
• Military Museum – one of the biggest in Russia.
• 20.00 return to the hotel.

Day 4 /Ice Cave

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Kungur Ice Cave. The length of the cave is about 8000 m, of which 2 km are equipped for visits by tourists. You will see ice wonderful sculptures, underground lakes and grottoes.
• 22.00 return to the hotel.

Day 5 / Ural mountains

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Transfer to the ski resort Mountain Belaya.
• Lunch at the restaurant.
• Excursion to the Deers farm.
• 18.00 return to the hotel.

Day 6 / Leaning Tower

• Breakfast at the hotel, check-out.
• Nevyansk Tower: one of the most famous and interesting monuments of industrial architecture in the Urals. The peculiarity of the Leaning tower is that it is built at an angle, which it is often compared to the leaning tower of Pisa.
• Lunch.
• Transfer to the airport.

The cost of the tour per a person for a group of 10 tourists+1 tour leader (free):

95500 RUB (single room), 85500 RUB (double room).

Included:

• hotel 4* in the center of Ekaterinburg,
• breakfasts and lunches;
• accommodation;
• guide and transport services;
• entry tickets.