Three 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", visit of the churches, one-pillar
dinning-room and monastery treasury. Attendance of the following
expositions of the Solovki State Museum Reserve: "Saints of
the Solovki Monastery", "St. Philippe - the leader of
the Russian Orthodox Church". Visit to the monastery icon-shop.
Monastery service.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 2nd day
Breakfast in the hotel. 
Boat tour along the hand-made channels and lakes of the Big Solovki
Island, connected under monk Irinarch's management to the general
hydraulic engineering system at the beginning of XX century. The
campaign 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 bank of a lake ("ukha"-soup from fresh fish, a
second meal cooked in accordance with the orthodox post, tea from
"samovar" with wood herbs). Bus excursion to the minor-monastery
on Sekirnaya Mountain, founded at the place, where St. Savatii has
become the witness of miracle. A wonderful view is opening from
the very top of the mountain. Visit to the Assumption Church with
the highest light-house of the White Sea. and wooden Inspection
of the Memorable cross put by Patriarch Alex II. Excursion to the
Botanical garden - one of the most northern botanical gardens in
Russia.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 3rd day
Breakfast. Check-out time.
3 hour sea tour to the Big Zayatsky 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.
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