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", visit of the churches and the monuments
included to "The List of the world heritage of UNESCO".
Excursion "Reference and conclusion on Solovki", attendance
of the complex historical exposition of the Solovki State Museum
Reserve.
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 at the beginning of XX
century to the general hydraulic engineering system. 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 barbecue,
tea from "samovar" with wood 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. Excursion to the Botanical garden - one
of the most northern botanical gardens in Russia.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 3rd day
Breakfast in the hotel. 
Boat trip across the unique internal sea of Solovki archipelago
- Long Lip - to Big Muksalma Island. 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
your 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. 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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