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 2 nd
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.
The4th 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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