Eight 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 thegeneral 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 rowboats 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 of Solovki 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 in the hotel.
All day long expedition by boat to Kuzova archipelago, debarkation
on the highest island - the German Kuzov. Across the rocks arising
from the sea - the outputs of the earth's crust - you will lift
to the highest point of the White Sea. Looking on a chain of White
Sea islands, you will comprehend infinity of yourself and the world,
and … will not want to leave this place. You will repeat the way
of mysterious saams - aborigines of the North and will see a sanctuary
with rock Seide. Kuzova pacifies by their naturalness and by calmness,
removes nervous tension, and gives silence, so rare for the contemporary
centers of civilization.
Box-lunch on the top.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 5th day
Breakfast.
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 can perceive 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. Spare time.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 6th day
Breakfast. Excursion to Pechak Cape (by foot). The road to Pechak
Cape lies across the picturesque places of Big Solovki Island, through
the streams, dry tundra swamps, covered with the snowy moss carpet,
along the western shore of the island. Two-hour walk along the cloister
road of the XVI century will bring to the southern extremity of
island. A splendid view to the boundlessness of the White Sea is
opened from the cape. Pechak cape is one of the least studied places
of the archipelago. Northern labyrinths mentioned earlier are not
discovered yet. Noise of waves, the rustle of wind against the sand,
the flock of birds, the carpet of green tundra and the monuments
of different times will leave the sensation of the complicity of
Solovki history and Solovki nature.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 7th day
Breakfast. Seas walk to Beluga Cape (approximately 3 hours). Boat
trip to theregion of the inhabiting of gigantic sea mammals - white
whales. The duration of seas walk depends on the weather conditions.
Lunch in the hotel. Spare time.Dinner in the hotel.
The 8th day
Breakfast. Check-out time.
Walk to the coast of the White Sea to Philip's Dam or to the Negotiation
stone.
Lunch in the hotel.
Transfer by bus to the airport or to the pier. Departure from Solovki.
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