Lvov - Kiev - Odessa, 10 days / 9 nights

Day 1: Lvov
Arrival at the airport of Lvov, transfer to the hotel, check-in and dinner in the hotel.

Day 2: Lvov
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for panoramic excursion of the city. Visit of the marketplace (Plochtcha Rynok) in the heart of the old town, then of the historic museum of Lvov, its magnificent collections are shared between three houses around the place. At n° 6, the first collection is hosted in a beautiful patio of Italian Renaissance style. At n° 4, a collection of work of art of the XIXth and XXth centuries. At n° 24 the collection recounts the history of Ukraine, with a beautiful part dedicated to the Cossacks. We shall pursue with the visit of the Boyim chapel (1617).Visit of the chemist's shop museum. The collection includes the medical and pharmaceutical instruments, the prescription books and the rare plants used for the XVIIth century. Lunch in a restaurant.
Departure for the visit of the cemetery Lytchaskivky. The first graves date from 1786. It is among the biggest historic cemeteries of Europe
. About 400.000 persons are buried there (artists, composers, scientists...).
Back in the hotel and dinner.

Day 3: Lvov
Breakfast in the hotel.
Excursion to the Potchaïv monastery located about 140 km in the northeast of Lvov. It is the second biggest orthodox centre of the country after the Petchersk Laura of Kiev. It was built by monks having fled the sacking of Kiev by the Tatars in 1240. The inside of the church and the gold-coloured dome of the monastery are magnificent. Lunch.
Back in Lvov, dinner in a restaurant. Transfer to the station and departure for Kiev in an overnight train.

Day 4: Kiev
Arrival in Kiev and breakfast.
Panoramic excursion of the city, passing by the St Volodymyr cathedral (XIXth), the St Sophie and St Michel cathedrals. The visit will continue towards the St Andrew church overhanging the Podil, the oldest trading district of Kiev. You will go to it by taking the picturesque descent of Andrew lined with artist's workshops and art galleries.
Lunch in a restaurant of the district, transfer to the hotel and check-in.
Free afternoon and dinner in the hotel.

Day 5: Kiev
Breakfast in the hotel.
Visit of the famous Petchersk Laura monastery. The construction of this complex vast of more than 26 ha began in the XIth century.You will visit the catacombs where rest the mummified mortal remains of some 165 monks, (among which those of Saint Antoine, founder of the monastery and Nestor the author of the chronicles of Kiev), the museum of the historic treasures hosting a magnificent collection of golden Scythian jewels as well as silver Jewish ritual objects of the XVIII-XXth centuries. The visit will end at the museum of microminiatures.
Lunch in a restaurant. The afternoon will continue with the visit of the museum of Pirogovo, an ethnic museum located at 12 km in the south of Kiev which extends on approximately 145 ha. It presents a beautiful reconstruction of the wooden architecture and the Ukrainian rural life of former days. Dinner in a local restaurant.
Back to the hotel.

Day 6: Kiev
Breakfast in the hotel.
Walk in the descent of Andrew dedicated to your personal purchases and spare time.
Lunch in a restaurant. In the afternoon, cruise on the Dnieper.
Dinner in a restaurant and transfer to the station.
Departure for Odessa, night in the train.

Day 7: Odessa
Arrival in Odessa early in the morning and breakfast.
Beginning of the panoramic excursion of the city of Odessa which will passing by the Primorski boulevard, the statue of the duke of Richelieu and the famous Potemkine staircases.Transfer in the hotel, check-in and lunch in the hotel.
Free afternoon and dinner in the hotel.

Day 8: Odessa
Breakfast in the hotel.
Departure for Belgorod-Dnetrovski (50 km). Located on the right bank of the estuary of the Dniester, the city was built in the Vth century by the Greeks, and was baptized Tyra. It is among the oldest towns of the world classified by UNESCO in the world heritage of the humanity. To ensure the defence of this strategic city, king Etienne II of Moldavia made it build a fortress in the XIIIth century. Its construction extended over about 200 years. It is one of the biggest defensive work which counts the country. Other tourist places are the Armenian church as well as the underground church of Saint John.
Lunch in a local restaurant, back to Odessa.
Spare time till the dinner.

Day 9: Odessa
Breakfast in the hotel.
Visit of some museum or spare time for a few purchases in the Privoz market.
Lunch in a restaurant.
Departure for the Catacombs: these galleries dug to extract the necessary rock for the construction of Odessa, extend over several hundreds of kilometres under the city. They were alternately the dens of smugglers and of the partisans during the second world war. They also host any sorts of warehouses. Certain rooms are now museums.
Dinner in a restaurant in the old town.

Day 10: Odessa
Breakfast in the hotel.
Transfer to the airport. End of the stay.

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