Solovki Grand Tour

Solovki Grand Tour

From 459 euro
3 days/2 nights

Solovetsky Monastery + Canals of Big Solovetsky Island + Hill Sekirnaya + Zayatsky Island 

Price includes: accommodation based on twin room sharing at Solovky Hotel, FB, transfers and excursions according to the program, English-speaking guide.

Day 1:

10.55 Arrival at Kem. Meeting with the guide. Transfer to the railway station.

12.30 Departure for Solovky by slow boat.

14.30 Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation. Lunch.

16:00 Excursion around the Monastery complex. You will listen to the history of the legendary Solovetsky Monastery that once was one of the richest monasteries of Russia, visit its functioning church, and go along its thick fortress walls that no enemy could overcome.

20:00 Dinner at the hotel.

Day 2:

09.00 Breakfast.

10.00 Today you will you will get acquainted with one of the most northern Botanical Gardens in the world.   This beautiful garden was created in the 19th century less than 100 miles from the Arctic Circle by monks, who grew all sorts of medical herbs there. Today the Botanical Garden of Solovky houses rare species and  plants exotic for northern latitudes.
13:00 Lunch after the end of the excursion.

15:00 After having lunch you will visit the highest point of Big Solovetsky Island, Hill Sekirnaya. On the top of the hill is situated one of the strictest sketes of the island with a unique lighthouse church. During the GULAG time the skete was one of the cruelest of all the detention places for the inmates of the camp. Today it is a living skete again; a very tranquil place that offers a fantastic panorama view over the island.

18:00 Return to the hotel. Free time.

19:00  Dinner at the hotel.

Day 3:

09.00 Breakfast.

10:00 Boat excursion to Island Zayatsky. Stone labyrinths of Big Zayatsky Island are rare and valuable archaeological monuments. You will have a chance to observe the impressive monuments of the past and admire a special beauty of this small island. Climate here is so severe that the island is covered mostly with a variety of moss species and berries.

13:00 Return to the island. Lunch.

16:00 Transfer to Kem by slow boat.

19:00 Dinner. Transfer to the railway station.

20:25 Departure for St. Petersburg.

Price does include: train tickets