Travel agency silver ring bus tours. Silver ring. Golden ring: what is it
Behind last years development, cultural and spiritual familiarization with the Russian heritage, its origins and stages of development is gaining popularity. To step back into history Ancient Rus', we suggest going on an excursion to see with your own eyes the life of your ancestors, touching the ancient Russian flavor. Excursions to Russian cities are an opportunity to have an active, healthy rest, experience beauty, chat with friends and bring back rare souvenirs.
The trip will take you back hundreds of years, hear the sounds of bell towers, feel the beauty of the architecture of temples, monasteries, estates and the unique culture of wooden architecture of our ancestors. Excursion tours around Russia from Moscow by bus are in demand, and the number of cities and routes of interest to tourists is steadily growing.
Tours to Russian cities and the Silver Ring, excursions from Moscow
The Gold and Silver Rings of Russia are iconic tourist routes, allow you to touch the cultural values of Rus', to better understand the image of the Russian people that has developed over the centuries.
Golden ring: what is it?
is a circular route of the most famous cultural and historical sights of Russia. It includes the ancient cities of North-Eastern Rus': Sergiev Posad, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov the Great, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo, Suzdal and Vladimir. Various sources supplement this list with no less interesting settlements, such as Alexandrov, Dmitrov, Myshkin, Palekh, Rybinsk, Tutaev, Uglich. Excursion tours to these cities allow you to see nature, medieval kremlins, monasteries, temples, palaces and noble estates. In addition to getting acquainted with monuments, joining folk festivities, and authentic cuisine, you can try yourself in various ancient crafts by attending interesting master classes.
Silver ring: what is it?
Russia is named by analogy with Zolotoy. It includes mainly the cities of the Novgorod principality, located west of Vladimir-Suzdal Rus', which have preserved architectural monuments: Veliky Novgorod, Staraya Russa, Velikiye Luki, Smolensk, Pskov, Izborsk, Pechory, Ivangorod, Kingisepp, Vyborg, Korela, Staraya Ladoga, Vologda and Tikhvin. Sometimes this route is supplemented with such places as Bogolyubovo, Murom, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Kasimov, Gzhel, Tver, Torzhok.
What is attractive about bus tours around Russia from Moscow included in this excursion route?
Often, traveling along the Silver Ring is no less interesting, but much more comfortable than traveling along the Golden Ring. There is no tourist rush, it is also well developed transport network, including service infrastructure - hotels, clubs, restaurants.
At the same time, excursions along the Silver Ring make it possible to satisfy the various cultural or recreational needs of tourists. In Bogolyubovo you can see monasteries, including the unique Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, in Veliky Novgorod - St. Sophia Cathedral, the ancient Detinets Kremlin. Velikiye Luki is worth visiting for the balloon festival, and Vyborg is worth visiting to see the ancient knight’s castle.
Even small towns unique for their richness. For example, in Torzhok tourists will see the Borisoglebsky and Ascension monasteries, a unique wooden church XVII century, Travel Palace, nearby noble estates of the XVIII century.
This route is not inferior to unique museum centers. Participants of excursions from Moscow or other cities can visit the museums of F. M. Dostoevsky (Staraya Russa), lace (Vologda), local history (Kingisepp), N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov (Tikhvin), the Polotnyany Zavod museum-estate (Kaluga) and many others.
Traveling by bus will allow you to do sightseeing tour in Russian cities from good review and comfort. When drawing up the program, stops for photography, food, hiking, free time.
Ride in a modern, comfortable tourist bus will allow you not to get tired during even the most intense journey, maintaining strength and good mood.
Book tours around the Silver Ring and other Russian cities with us!
The travel company "Horizons" offers year-round excursions around Russia. You can choose short tours where the route includes the cities of the Silver, Golden Ring, including others settlements. The duration of the trip can be one day or a weekend, three-day intensive excursions, as well as long trips up to 10 days. Our employees are ready to create a personal program for tourist group with any number of participants.
Tours around Russia, the Silver and Golden Rings from the Horizons company will allow tourists to see all the significant cultural and historical sites of these places, feel the atmosphere of ancient cities, have a great rest and get a lot of impressions. A nice bonus is the reasonable prices for tours along the Silver Ring of Russia, which does not affect the high quality of service. Contact us - we are ready to help you relax with comfort and benefit!
Tour route: Izborsk Fortress - Museum-Reserve "Mikhailovskoye" - Museum-Reserve of Wooden Architecture "Vitoslavlitsy" - Peterhof - Peter and Paul Fortress - Pskov Kremlin - Holy Dormition Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery - Holy Dormition Svyatogorsky Monastery - Holy Yuryev Monastery - Tsarskoe Selo - Hermitage - museum-estate "Trigorskoe"
We invite you to look at the Russian northwest through the eyes of an enchanted wanderer.
Tour program
1st daySunday
Arrival at the hotel:
- on one's own;
- private transfer: railway station or airport – hotel(service cost from 1400 rubles, purchased in advance).
See the cost of transfers in the "Possible surcharges" section.
Accommodation (possible after the excursion program).
From 9:00 until the start of the excursion program, meet with a representative of the travel agency in the hotel lobby. Receive updated excursion programs. Purchasing additional excursions.
~13:00 Departure from the hotel by bus.
Sightseeing tour in St. Petersburg with a visit Peter and Paul Fortress
– a fascinating journey through the streets, avenues and squares of the Northern capital, which will set the mood for the entire tour. You will visit the Peter and Paul Cathedral, where the Russian emperors rest, and the Trubetskoy Bastion prison, where their political opponents languished. Are you ready to be impressed?
Cities: Saint Petersburg
Attractions: Peter-Pavel's Fortress
2nd day
Monday
Breakfast.
Release of rooms. Departure from the hotel with things.
08.00 Departure from the hotel by bus.
Excursion “Mr. Veliky Novgorod”. Just four hours of travel and you will find yourself in the Russian Middle Ages: the massive walls of the ancient Kremlin and the frescoes of the St. Sophia Cathedral are the origins of Russian culture and national identity. You will meet with the life of the monks of Yuryev monastery and see the original architectural and ethnographic museum-reserve "Vitoslavlitsy". A daring and rebellious northerner, Veliky Novgorod has always been distinguished by the freedom and independence of character of its inhabitants - do you want to know what Ivan IV the Terrible did to silence the voice of Novgorod freedom?
Lunch at a cafe. Departure from Veliky Novgorod to Pskov.
20.00 Accommodation at the Rizhskaya hotel, which is located in the western part of the city of Pskov near the historical center.
Free time.
Cities: Veliky Novgorod, Pskov
Attractions: St. George's Monastery, Museum-Reserve of Wooden Architecture "Vitoslavlitsy"
3rd day
Breakfast.
Is waiting for you sightseeing tour of Pskov with a visit to the legendary Pskov Kremlin- one of the most impregnable fortresses of Ancient Rus'. You will learn its structure and secrets, thanks to which the enemy never managed to take it in battle. You will see dozens of ancient churches, residential, commercial and defensive buildings of the 12th–17th centuries and more! They will definitely tell you that one of the main attractions of Pskov is the Pogankin Chambers. Are you already eager to find out why they are named that way?
Lunch at a cafe.
Free time.
Cities: Pskov
Attractions: Pskov Kremlin
4th day
Breakfast.
08.30 Departure from the hotel by bus.
Excursion to the Pushkin Mountains with a visit to the estates of Mikhailovskoye, Trigorskoye and Svyatogorsk Monastery- a day during which you will continually remember Pushkin’s lines dedicated to these places.
You will visit the family estate of the poet’s mother – Mikhailovsky – “a haven of peace, work and inspiration.” Walking through the park, you will pass under the linden trees along the Anna Kern alley and be sure to remember the “wonderful moment.”
And in Trigorskoye - the estate of the friends of the poet Osipov-Wulf - everything around will remind you of the novel “Eugene Onegin”.
By visiting the Svyatogorsk Monastery, you can honor the memory of the poet - here, at the altar wall of the ancient white-stone Assumption Cathedral, is the place of his last earthly refuge.
Lunch at a cafe.
Return to the hotel by bus.
Free time.
Cities: Pushkinskie Gory
Attractions: Museum-estate "Trigorskoye", Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Monastery, Museum-Reserve "Mikhailovskoye"
5th day
Breakfast.
09.30 Rooms vacated. Departure from the hotel with things.
Excursion to the ancient cities of Izborsk and Pechory with a visit to the Izborsk fortress and the Holy Dormition Pskov-Pechersky Orthodox monastery.
Izborsk is a place where you can truly feel the spirit of antiquity. It is shrouded in legends and tales of the Slavs, defenders of the western borders of the Motherland. In the ancient stone fortress that stands on the mountain with the romantic name “Crane”, the events of bygone days will clearly appear before you, and at its foot the healing Slovenian springs, known since the time of Ivan the Terrible, continue to flow.
Near the Livonian border, on the “border land”, for more than five hundred years there has been a male Orthodox monastery, originally built in caves. Hence the name - Pechory. In 2012, the monastery was recognized as the “second miracle of Russia.” Frequent attacks by enemies turned the monastery into an impregnable fortress: it has nine towers and powerful walls. Surprisingly, over the many years of the monastery’s existence, monastic service was not interrupted here for a single day.
Lunch at a cafe.
21.00 Return to St. Petersburg by bus.
Hotel accommodation.
Cities: Izborsk, Pechory
Attractions: Izborsk Fortress, Holy Dormition Pskov-Pechersky Monastery
6th day
Breakfast.
10.00 Departure from the hotel by bus.
Excursion to Tsarskoe Selo “The Pearl of the Gallant Age” with a visit to the Catherine Palace, delightful and sophisticated. The palace and the surrounding park are fraught with many cute mysteries, similar to elegant flies that were in fashion among ladies of the 18th century. They will tell you in confidence how the village became Tsarskoe, who lived there and what an incredibly enthusiastic feeling it always evoked. luxurious palace, which guests of the imperial court sometimes compared to a jewel...
Return to the hotel by bus.
Cities: Pushkin
Attractions: Tsarskoye Selo
7th day
Breakfast.
10.00 Departure from the hotel by bus.
Excursion to Peterhof“Peterhof Fantasy” will open its doors to you in beautiful world dreams where mythical heroes and deities live in the crystal kingdom of fountains. Old-timers say that a walk through the Lower Park of Peterhof - adds whole year happy life!
Return to St. Petersburg by bus.
The excursion ends at the metro station.
Cities: Petrodvorets (Peterhof)
Attractions: Peterhof
8th day
Sunday
Breakfast.
09.00 Departure from the hotel by bus.
Excursion “Secrets of the Russian Throne. Emperors and Favorites" with a walk through Palace Square and a visit to the Hermitage, which remembers dozens of royal favorites. What did they do to deserve the monarch's love? Which of them was the most influential? How did their destinies turn out? Yes, it will be an exciting excursion!
Free time in the city center.
Cities: Saint Petersburg
Attractions: Hermitage
Tour conditions
Meeting point From 9:00 until the start of the excursion program - meet with a representative of the travel agency in the hotel lobby. Receive updated excursion programs. Purchasing additional excursions. The price includes accommodation and meals according to the program, transport services, excursion program, entrance tickets to museums, guide services. Mandatory additional payments Additional payment for excursion services for foreign tourists (non-Russian passport), in rubles per person: 1400 rubles. (per tour) Possible additional payments Meeting (or seeing off) at the station or at the airport, luggage storage services at the station, insurance. Registration of foreign tourists (non-Russian passport) in hotels is paid by tourists themselves on the spot upon check-in at the hotel (~ 200 rubles per person). Discounts According to the price table. Meals According to the program Important If tourists do not show up at the appointed time, no refunds will be made for unused excursions.It is necessary to arrive at the meeting point at the appointed time, otherwise the responsibility for joining the group falls entirely on the tourist. Children are accepted from 3 years old. Paying for room and board. Recommended age: from 5 years. Attention: The travel agency reserves the right to replace the hotel with an equivalent one.
When implementing tours, we ask you to draw the attention of tourists to the fact that the tour program gives an approximate departure time from the hotel at excursion program and approximate order of excursions. The program clearly indicates the number of excursions included in a given tour and the total number of bus operating hours in this round. On the first day of the tour, the tourist receives from the guide an exact excursion program for his stay in St. Petersburg and a map of the city center. Useful tips When visiting some active monasteries and temples, women are not recommended to enter the territory in trousers or shorts and without a hat. Documents for the trip Tourist voucher, passport (general civil), for children under 14 years old - birth certificate.
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