Weekend in Karelia.

Moscow - Petrozavodsk - Kivach- Kondopoga.

Tour Programme:

The 1st day: Departure from Moscow, the Leningrad station by evening train. The 2nd day: arrival in Petrozavodsk. Meeting of the group at the railway station. Breakfast time. Sightseeing tour in Petrozavodsk (the architectural ensemble of Round Square, Governor's Garden, Theatre Square, the embankment of Lake Onega with one world modern avant-garde open-air museum of contemporary sculpture). The visiting an unique private art gallery “The Doll's House” of Tatyana Kalinina, where there is an amazing author’s exhibition “Kizhi house spirits”. Our tourist has opportunity to buy an amulet as a keepsake. Hotel accommodation. It’s rest time. At tourists’ will It organized the visiting sports and water center "Akvatika" (swimming pool, sweat room, hammam, hydromassage, jacuzzi, slide -

Tabagan, café bar. Attention!!! “Akvatika” visiting obligatory required tourist’s medical expense insurance. Dinner "The Karelian cloth" at ethnic restaurant "Karelskaya Gornitsa” ("Karelian room"). You will spend unforgettable evening in the atmosphere of northern traditional culture.

Interiors of restaurant will immerse you in the world of a prehistoric cave with mysterious neolithic «petroglyphs ", "the Karelian narrow street" with izba (the hut), rooms of an old pomorki and "just married", a medieval Viking hall.

You will be offered an excursion in restaurant. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday "live music" sounds at restaurant (the Karelian, Russian, Finnish, Ingrian songs). You will see performances of folk music groups. The 3rd day: Breakfast. Tourist has to vacate his/her room. Bus tour out-of-town: in Kivach Nature Reserve visiting Europe's largest plain waterfalls Kivach. Inspection of Grove of Karelian birch. Picnic on the Nature Reserve’s territory (shish kebab, slicing vegetables, tea). Moving to Kondopoga. Visiting the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin- one of the best steepled churches in Russia. Sightseeing tour in Kondopoga: Ice Palace, Palace of Arts, Song Festival Grounds, "Karelon" - a unique clock, made of bells, which ring every hour with different tunes. Return to Petrozavodsk. Transfer to the railway station. Departure to Moscow.