Excursions in Kiev
Whilst in Kiev, why not enhance your visit with one or more of our sightseeing programmes.
These are the benefits:
- Private tour for you and your companions only
- English speaking professional guide
- Private car or minibus with driver (not walking tours)
Supplements for foreign language guides (other than English)
Supplements apply on local public holiday dates To book, please contact us with your requirements.
KYIV Panoramic City Tour
| Number of passengers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard car | 85 | 43 | ||
| Minibus | 112 | 56 | 38 | 28 |
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Description
- During the excursion you will visit the ancient entrance to the city - the Golden Gate (XI c.), enjoy the beauty of St. Sophia Cathedral (XI c.), the complex with its magnificent frescoes and murals. It is the city's oldest standing church built in 1017-1031 in honour of Prince Yaroslav's victory over a rival tribe Pechenegs. The Mikhailovska Church with it's golden cupolas and St. Andrew's church, located at the northern end of the street and at the top of the charming Andriyivsky uzvis, will surely wonder you. It's an inspired 1746-61 Baroque interpretation of the traditional Ukrainian five-domed, cross-shaped church by Rastrelli. Walking through the narrow streets of Podol, with it's numerous houses, Baroque churches you will feel the real atmosphere of the city. There will be a chance to visit the main city street Khreshchatic and famous Nezalezhnosti Square, where millions of people used to gather in the most crucial times in the life of the country. The round trip excursion gives you the main knowledge of Kyiv and inspires you to get to know this city better
- Open days
- Everyday
- Open times
- 08:00-18:00
- Notes
- Supplements apply for foreign language guides (other than English/Russian), and for excursions on local public holiday dates. Please ask us for a quotation.
KYIV Panoramic City Tour and SOFIA KYIVSKA CATHEDRAL
| Number of passengers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard car | 85 | 43 | ||
| Minibus | 112 | 56 | 38 | 28 |
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Description
- During this excursion you will visit the main places of sightseeing in Kiev and spend more time for observation of the great Sophia Cathedral. The St. Sophia Cathedral dated in 1017, being the main Church of Kyiv Rus, played the role of spiritual, political and cultural center. It was here that the ceremony of anointing and crowning the prince was performed; here, he mounted the Grand Throne of Kyiv to receive foreign ambassadors and to conclude trade agreements or peace treaties. The first mention of the library collected by Yaroslav the Wise (the first in Old Rus so far as we know) is also associated with the St. Sophia Monastery. Devoted to God's Wisdom, it was aimed to introduce the Christianity. Devoted to God's Wisdom, it was aimed to introduce the Christianity.
- Open days
- Everyday
- Open times
- 08:00-16:00
- Notes
- Supplements apply for foreign language guides (other than English/Russian), and for excursions on local public holiday dates. Please ask us for a quotation.
KYIV Panoramic City Tour and 1 Museum
| Number of passengers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard car | 85 | 43 | ||
| Minibus | 112 | 56 | 38 | 28 |
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Description
- During this excursion you will visit the main places of sightseeing in Kiev and spend more time for observation of one of the Museums: the National Art Museum, the Archeological Museum or the Fortress of Kyiv Art Museum Things come to collection from different areas ranging from far western Galitsia to eastern Tchernigovshina areas. The collectors looked for masterpieces of Ukrainian art in Moscow and Saint Petersburg and even wrote correspondence to Ukrainian artists living in Europe and America. They have found even some older works ranging from medieval icons to Cossacks times portraits of military and church leaders and humorous comic pictures "Cossack Mamay". Museum of the History of Ukraine Located on a bluff above Andriyivsky uzviz, this museum carries forth on a wide range of topics concerning Ukraine's history from prehistoric times up to the present day. There are extensive collections of old books, coins and bills, works of art and archaeological and ethnographical findings. Museum 'The Fortress of Kyiv'. The Museum is situated in one of the former parts of Kyiv fortification system - the Squint Caponier. It was built in 1844 as a defensive construction and is a half underground building with thick stone and brick walls, with firing holes in it. First, it was used as the artillery guns and munitions storage. In 60-th years of the 19-th C. it became the political jail. The first prisoners were the participators of the polish rebellion on 1863. Nowadays the Squint Caponier is a constituent of the architectural memorial of Kiev - the Kyiv Fortress, which enclosures Kiev Pecherska Lavra, territory of the modern national Museum of World War II, factory 'Arsenal' and the other
- Open days
- Everyday
- Open times
- 09:00-16:00
- Notes
- Supplements apply for foreign language guides (other than English/Russian), and for excursions on local public holiday dates. Please ask us for a quotation.
PIROGOVO - Museum of Folk Architecture and ethnography of Ukraine
| Number of passengers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard car | 85 | 43 | ||
| Minibus | 112 | 56 | 38 | 28 |
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Description
- The open-air museum is an architectural-landscape complex of all the historic-ethnographic regions of Ukraine: Poltava Region, Podilia, The Carpathians, Polissians, and Southern Ukraine. It covers an area of 150 hectares and has about 300 architectural exhibitions. More than 300 unique memorials of folk architecture were transferred from 6 main ethnical regions of Ukraine and put on the picturesque landscape of Kyiv suburb. Almost all buildings are presented with their historical farm yards, which gives a good impression of the most distinctive features of the these regions of Ukraine. Their interiors present the valuable memories of folk arts - the fond of museum collection counters more than 70 thousand of unique items.
- Open days
- Everyday
- Open times
- 09:00-16:00
- Notes
- Supplements apply for foreign language guides (other than English/Russian), and for excursions on local public holiday dates. Please ask us for a quotation.
KYIV PECHERSKA LAVRA and The Monks Caves
| Number of passengers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard car | 85 | 43 | ||
| Minibus | 112 | 56 | 38 | 28 |
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Description
- The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is much more than just an ancient monastery. For many centuries it was a truly spiritual centre of Ukraine. The Cave Monastery was built almost 8 centuries ago by the monks Antoniy and Feodosiy. Spread across wooded slopes above the Dnipro, it is a unique array of gold-domed churches, underground labyrinths lined with mummified monks, and elegant monastic buildings turned museums. Currently, the Kiev Pechersk Lavra also serves as the residence of Metropolitan Volodymyr (Viktor Sabodan), the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and is open for visiting
- Open days
- Everyday
- Open times
- 09:00-16:00
- Notes
- Supplements apply for foreign language guides (other than English/Russian), and for excursions on local public holiday dates. Please ask us for a quotation.
Chernihiv with Historical Reserve visit
| Number of passengers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard car | 250 | 125 | ||
| Minibus | 285 | 142 | 95 | 71 |
- Duration
- 8 hours
- Description
- The centre of the most north province of Ukraine with population 310,000 persons, is located on right coast of Desna river, 140 km on north from Kiev on international highway Odesa - St. Petersburg. The city is rich for ancient and history monuments. This speaks for itself: city has saved a quarter of all architectural monuments of Ukraine of IX-XII ages. A rich collection of the antiquities of Ukraine and public creative activity is saved in Chernihiv museums. Suitable geographical location of the city, favourable climatic and natural conditions create the greater possibilities for development of tourism. You can make interesting excursions to Novgorod-Siverskyi (with visit to persisting knights tournament), Kachanovka, Kozelets from Chernihiv.
- Open days
- Everyday
- Open times
- 09:00-17:00
- Notes
- Supplements apply for foreign language guides (other than English/Russian), and for excursions on local public holiday dates. Please ask us for a quotation.
Daytrip to SOFIYVKA State Dendrological Park
| Number of passengers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard car | 408 | 204 | ||
| Minibus | 437 | 219 | 146 | 110 |
- Duration
- 10 hours
- Description
- Uman State Dendrology Park 'Sophievka' is a is a masterpiece of world garden-park art of end XVIII - begin XIX ages. The Park stretched on area 154,7 hectares on fringe of the old-time city Uman of Cherkassy Province. This is a sample of landscape park composition of water, land, architectural buildings and sculptures. Park was founded in 1796 by rich polish magnate Stanislav Schensny Pototsky in honour of Sophia, his beauty-Greek wife, and was presented her at day her name-day at May 1802. The idea of creation of park in romantic stiletto with use of Roman and Greek mythology belonged to most Sophia.
- Open days
- Everyday
- Open times
- 09:00-17:00
- Notes
- Supplements apply for foreign language guides (other than English/Russian), and for excursions on local public holiday dates. Please ask us for a quotation.