DAY 1: Fri - Departure from USA
- Depart the USA for Odesa in Ukraine. Your international flight includes meals, drinks, and in-flight entertainment.
|
DAY 2: Sat - Arrive in Odesa
- Arrival to the airport in Odesa.
- Transfer to the hotel. Check-in.
- Welcoming dinner at a local restaurant.
- Overnight: Odesa.
- Meal: Dinner
|
DAY 3: Sun - Odesa City Tour
- Breakfast at the hotel. Odesa is a cosmopolitan seaport founded in the late of 18th century on the northern edge of the Black Sea. City walking tour to explore this seaside city with the mythical name that appears in the 15th century with the ancestor of the Tatar village of Kachi-Bey. At the beginning of XIX century a French emigrant Armand Emmanuel du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu, was appointed as governor of Odessa and the province of New Russia. He favored a rapid and harmonious development of the city, following a Cartesian plan defined by the architect François de Ribas.
- You will discover the most important architectural monuments and admire the architectural jewels of Southern Palmyra, such as the world-famous Odesa Opera House (designed by the Viennese architect office Helmer & Fellner), the Potemkin Staircase, Derybasivska Street (the most popular nightlife area in Odessa with many boutiques. Lunch at a restaurant downtown.
- Visit of the Archeology Museum is, undoubtedly, the most interesting thanks to a beautiful collection of remnants of the first civilizations of the Black Sea, including jewelry and coins.
- Dinner at a local restaurant.
- Optional: Visit to Underground complex of Odesa
- Overnight: Odesa
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
|
DAY 4: Mon - Odesa - Bilhorod - Dnistrovskyi - Odesa
- Breakfast at the hotel. Departure to Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. Visit of the Fortress. The fortress of Bilhorod - Dnistrovskyi, which has been very well preserved, is the largest in Ukraine. The Citadel, its oldest part, was built by the Genoese, in the 13th century on the steep bank of the limn Dnistèr, on the site of the ancient city Tira. In 1484, the Turkish army, which had 300 thousand men, besieged the fortress, but failed take it only after 16 days. The Turks changed in their turn the name of Bilhorod for Akkerman (Peter white or White Fortress).
- Tour around the town. Visit the city and its cult monuments, the true mosaic of peoples and cultures at the edge of the Black Sea: Armenian Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, Greek Church Loan Predtetcha, Moldovan underground church Loan Soutchavsky with a well. Lunch at the local restaurant.
- Optional A visit to the winery Shabo in the village of the same name
- Dinner at a restaurant in the city Centre.
- Overnight: Odesa.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
|
DAY 5: Tue - Odesa - Kherson
- Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out from your hotel in Odesa.
- Departure for Kherson region which offers the richest and more diverse nature. There are different National parks, including ornithological and botanical parks with rare species. The oldest Biosphere steppe Reserve in Europe is also located in Kherson region, called Askania Nova and protected as UNESCO World Heritage. There is 400 unique steppe species of plants and 1000 rare species of animals.
- Arrival to Skadovsk. Departure to Dzharylhach national nature park with it&rsquos the biggest island in Ukraine. Dzharylhach Island, so-called Ukrainian Maldives, is the the largest island of Ukraine, which attracts guests to wide sandy seashore, healing water with iodine, bromine, medical mud, favourable climate and primeval nature. The island is located 8 km from land. The area is 5605 ha and length is 24.4 km. There are numeruous salt lakes, preserved unique flora and fauna. In the east of the island there stands a lighthouse, built in 1900, desighed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. Lunch on the spot with local sea food.
- Return to Kherson. Check-in at your hotel in Kherson.
- Dinner at a local restaurant
- Overnight: Kherson
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
|
DAY 6: Wed - Kherson City Tour
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Departure to the Lemuriiske (Rosy) Lake. The Ukrainian Dead Sea is a unique, amazing place, the only one lake in Europe with such rosy-colour water, rich in minerals, salts and healing muds.
- OR Departure to Askaniia Nova the pearl of Ukraine, one of the oldest and most important biosphere reserve parks on the European continent. It is one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine and is included in the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
- Lunch on the spot.
- Stop to visit the National natural park "Oleshkivski Sands", a unique place which is the largest sand massif in Europe. Return to Kherson.
- Dinner downtown.
- Overnight: Kherson.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
|
DAY 7: Thu - Kherson - Odesa - Olivia
- Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out from your hotel in Kherson.
- Visit to Olvia, a complex of monuments of the ancient city, an integral part of Ukraine cultural heritage. It was one of the four largest ancient states of the Northern Black Sea coast. Translated from the ancient Greek, Olvia means Happy.
- Olvia was founded by Greek settlers on the right bank of the Hypanis (now the Bug Estuary) in the second quarter of the VI century. B.C. and lasted almost a thousand years. Herodotus mentioned this city in his works. Lunch on the route. Lunch on the route.
- Arrival to Odesa. Free time at your leisure.
- Check-in at your hotel in Odesa
- Dinner at a local restaurant
- Overnight: Odesa
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
|
DAY 8: Fri - Depart Odesa
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Transfer to the airport for your departure flight.
- Optional Departure to Vylkove, (Ukrainian little Venice)
- Optional Visit to the Shustov Cognac Museum
- Meal: Breakfast
|
