Tour «Golden Ring» 9 days - Day 5

On the fifth day of the tour, the group will finally be able to get acquainted with the capital of Russia, Moscow. After Breakfast and hotel check-out tourists will take a comfortable bus, on which they will go on a sightseeing tour of the city. As in Moscow, the group will be only one day, the program is quite intense.

First stop – the heart of Moscow – The Red Square. For an hour and a half tourists can take pictures of Kremlins chiming clock and colorful domes of St Basil’s Cathedral, try out famous ice-cream in the main mall of the capital – GUM, take a look at it’s amazing architecture and feel the remained spirit of Soviet time. After that, the group will get behind the red walls to see The Kremlin inside and take a closer look to the centuries-old relics.

After The Kremlin tourists return to their bus and go on to look at the main sights of Moscow. After lunch the bus will make stops at the Novodevichiy convent, Sparrow hills, the main building of Moscow State University and Victory Park.

Also today, tourists will go underground to see the most beautiful subway in the world. Moscow subway was built with the purpose of praising socialism and at this moment is the most important monument of architecture of the twentieth century.

Tourists will be completing the acquaintance with Moscow on the main pedestrian street of the city – Arbat, which is especially charming in the evening. Here they can listen to street musicians, feel the rhythm of the city and to buy Russian souvenirs in one of many shops – dolls, badges, painted shawls, caskets and Soviet attributes.

In the evening after dinner, the group heads to the Leningrad station from where a night train goes to Saint-Petersburg.