Four days on Solovki Islands
The 1st day
Meeting with the guide at the pier or at the airport.
Transfer by bus to the hotel, check-in and lunch in the hotel.
Walking tour around the monastery, excursion "History and architecture
of the Solovki monastery" with the visit of churches, Refectory
chamber, Cloister cells, fortress towers and gallery, from where
is opened wonderful panorama to the covered with forest tracts hills,
arising above the lake basins and the sea molded edges. Visit of
the complex exposure of Solovki State Museum Reserve.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 2nd day
Breakfast in the hotel. Multi-hour boat tour to the country of lakes
connected by hand-made channels into the general hydraulic engineering
system. High sky, overturned into the mirrors of lakes, interrupted
by forests, medium-dry swamps and florescent meadows - this is only
the part, by which natural peace of Solovki meets the man.
The tour is accompanied by the guide. Guests are invited to take
seats in rowb oats
for 4-6 persons in each.
Picnic lunch by a campfire at the coast of a lake ("ukha"-soup
from fresh fish, a barbecue, tea from "samovar" with northern
herbs).
Bus excursion to the minor-monastery on Sekirnaya Mountain with
Assumption Church, the highest light-house of the White Sea and
wooden Memorable cross put by Patriarch Alex II. A view from the
top of the Sekirnaya Mountain should be photographed.
Excursion to the Botanical garden - one of the most northern botanical
gardens in Russia. You will be impressed by the extraordinary collection
of plants and the surprising durability of brittle Solovki flora,
which "lives" among wild stones.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 3rd day
Breakfast.Boat trip to Big Muksalma Island across the internal sea
ofSolovki archipelago. The Gulf Long Lip is one of the most beautiful
places of Solovki, a unique natural complex. Sea walk in a labyrinth
of islands of the Long Lip will leave nobody indifferent and will
lead you to well-known boulder Dam - the magnificent hydraulic engineering
construction. Impressive stone fields; the starfishes lying under
legs; a reef showing its' rare teeth from the sea and interesting
stories about everything that is connected to this Island are waiting
the travelers.
Box-lunch by a fire on seacoast or late lunch in the hotel.
After survey of a miracle - bridge-dam through a strait the Iron
Gate, à walk to Sergey's minor-monastery - one of the former
departments of Solovki Camp of Special Purpose.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 4th day
Breakfast. Check-out time.3 hour sea tour to the Big Zayatsky Island
- the most prohibited territory of archipelago. The sea is the element
of the flying winds and waves. You canperceive the coolness of the
Russian North even in summer time. Island itself will make it possible
to feel the special heat of the affectionate northern sun, to estimate
the restrained tender paints of surrounding nature. Excursion includes
story about surprising nature of the island, visiting of the first
in Russia stone harbor of XVI century, St. Andrei's Church erected
in 1702 by Peter I, and ancient stone labyrinths of III-II millennium
B.C., including the world's largest labyrinth.
Lunch in the hotel. Transfer by bus to the airport or to the pier.
Departure from Solovki.
|
