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Tour	Duration	Dates	Prices p/p from
Jewish Odessa Odessa – Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi – Shabo – Odessa	6	on request	586 €
Jewish heritage Tour Kyiv — Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi — Zhytomyr — Berdychiv — Vinnytsia — Lviv — Chernivtsi	8	on request	740 €

]]> admin Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:22:56 -1100 Jewish Odessa https://www.ofit-travel.com.ua/en/index.php?newsid=92 https://www.ofit-travel.com.ua/en/index.php?newsid=92 Jewish Odessa

Odessa – Belgorod-Dnistrovskyi – Shabo – Odessa (6 days, 5 nights)

Day 1. Arrival

Meeting at the airport. Transfer to the hotel. Dinner. Overnight.

Day 2. Odessa: Panoramic City Tour

Breakfast. Panoramic city tour including Primorsky boulevard, Shevchenko Boulevard, named after a famous Ukrainian poet, legendary Potemkin Steps - an entrance to the city from the sea, magnificent Opera and Ballet Theatre designed by 2 Viennese architects in a French rococo style, Duc de Richelieu’s Monument - a founder of Odessa, Alexander Pushkin’s Monument, Dormition Cathedral, Vorontsov’s Palace. Free time.

Optional visiting the famous Opera and Ballet Theatre. Dinner. Overnight.

Jour 3: Odessa – Excursion “Jewish heritage of Odessa”

Breakfast. Excursion “Jewish heritage of Odessa”: Jewish hospital, old Haskalah centre, houses where famous writers and founders of Zionism used to live, Holocaust Memorial, place of the death camp Bogdanovka, qarter Moldavanka. You feel the atmosphere of the city where on the eve of World War I one third of the population were jewish and spoke Yiddish. During the excursion you will visit the Synagogues, Migdal society and the museum founded by this society. Dinner at the restaurant. Overnight.

Jour 4: Odessa – Excursion “Literary Odessa”

Breakfast. Excursion “Literary Odessa”. For the two hundred year's existence Odessa has found the richest literary history connected to names of A.Pushkin, N.Gogol, A.Ostrovskiy, V.Korolenko, I.Bunin, A.Kuprin, A.Mitskevich, M.Tven, Sholom-Aleyhem, V.Kataev and many, many other writers, poets, playwrights. Visiting the Odessa Literature Museum. The museum was set up in 1977 in the Palace og Counts Garagins. The palace, built in the 19th century was later donated to the Odessa Literature and Theatrical Association. The collection of the museum amounts to 40,000 exhibits. It represents the works by Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Jewish, Bulgarian etc. writers and illustrates their links with Odessa. The list includes about 300 names. Dinner. Overnight.

Jour 5: Odessa: Excursion to Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi – Shabo
Breakfast. Excursion to Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi famous by its fortress. The fortress has no equal in Ukraine, being most dramatic medieval monument. It is located on the high bank of the Dniester estuary on the foundations of the antique town of Tira (5th c. B.C.). Within centuries the walls and towers were continuously renovated to ensure the defence from different armaments. After 1812 the fortress continued to be the pillar of the south frontier defence system of the Russian empire at least 20 years onwards.

Continuation to Shabo – place of famous winery. Since ancient times, Chabot - pearl of the Ukrainian wine making. "Company Shabo is an example of modern wine-making complex. It is the unique sandy soil and 1000 hectares of own wine yards, a huge warehouse with total area of 100002 meters modern European equipment for grape processing". Wine tasting. Dinner. Overnight.

Jour 6: Departure

Breakfast. Transfer to the airport for your flight back home.

Program price in euro per person
	10+1 pax	15+1 pax	20+1 pax	25+1 pax	Additional payment for single room
Hotels 3*	734	659	605	586	230
Hotels 4*	767	695	635	620	230

The price includes:

- Accomodation in the chosen hotels: 5 nights in Odessa; standard double rooms;

- 5 breakfasts and 5 dinners;

- Transport services according to the program;

- English guides service during the tour.

- Entrance fees according to the program;

- Organisation of visiting and meetings with Jewish communities;
- One free of charge for tour leader in single room.

The price does not include

- Meals: lunches;

- Services not mentioned above;

- Personal expenses.

]]> admin Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:22:26 -1100 Jewish heritage Tour https://www.ofit-travel.com.ua/en/index.php?newsid=91 https://www.ofit-travel.com.ua/en/index.php?newsid=91 Jewish heritage Tour

Kyiv — Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky — Zhytomyr — Berdichev — Vinnytsa — Lviv — Chernivtsi (8 days, 7 nights)

Day 1: Kyiv
Meeting at the airport. Transfer to the hotel. Walk in the city center: Khreschatyk Avenue, Independence square. Overnight.

Day 2: Kyiv

Breakfast. Panoramic city tour in the capital of Ukraine and the cradle of Eastern Slavonic states. The tour includes Golden Gates and Vladimir’s hill, which is supposed to be the place of foundation of Kyiv-city, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Monument, National Opera and Ballet Theater, St. Vladimir’s Cathedral – a splendid architectural pearl, with beautiful paintings of V. Vasnetsov and St. Michael’s Golden Domed Monastery founded in 1108, Kyiv Founders’ Monument, Khreschatyk Avenue, Independence Square - the scene of many notable events in the capital city of Ukraine.

Visiting the main places where jewish culture and history have put a mark on Ukrainian history: Babyn Yar, Podol, the Old Great Synagogue, International Solomon University, houses where Sholem Aleichem, Golda Meir and other world known personalities of Jewish culture lived, Podil – the district densely populated by the Jews. Overnight.

Day 3: Kyiv – Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi – Zhytomyr – Berdichev

Breakfast. Departure to Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi – the native town of Sholom Aleichem. Visiting the writer's museum. Transfer to Zhytomyr. Visiting old Jewish quarter and synagogue. Departure to Berdichev. Accommodation in the hotel. Overnight.

Day 4: Berdichev – Vinnytsia – Chernivtsi

Breakfast. Panoramic city tour including old Jewish quarter, mausoleum St tsadik Levi Itskhak, synagogue, jewish cemetery. Transfer to Vinnytsia. Visiting the main jewish places and synagogue. Departure to Chernivtsi. Accommodation in the hotel. Overnight.

Day 5: Chernivtsi

Breakfast. Chernivtsi is a wonderful city is spread out at the foot of Carpathian Mountains, on the picturesque hills of the Prut River. It fascinates with its eclectic architecture, rich cultural heritage and the spider-web like labyrinth of ancient European streets and squares. Accomodation in the hotel. Panoramic city tour including St. Nicolas Cathedral, Holy Virgin Nativity Church. Visit to the University - the former residence of Bukovinian metropolitans.

Visiting Memorial site of Jewish victims of the World War II, Paul Tselan and Joseph Schmidt memorial places, Diaspora Museum, Jewish cultural society named after Shteinberg and the Jewish school – the first one in Ukraine. Overnight.

Day 6: Chernivtsi – Sadgora – Lviv

Breakfast. Departure to Sadgora – a holy place for Khassid pilgrims from Eastern Europe. Visiting Rabbinate, old Jewish cemetery, the former Residence of Jewish Tsaddicks, the grave of miracle maker rabbi Israel Freedman. Transfer to Lviv. Accommodation in the hotel. Overnight.

Day 7: Lviv

Breakfast. Lviv is a very beautiful city with its narrow medieval streets paved with stones, architectural decoration done in different styles preserved in its original form. This is an ancient picturesque city founded by Prince Danylo Halytsky in the middle of the 13th century. During the panoramic tour you will have an opportunity to admire St. George Cathedral (1765) in baroque-rococo style with unusual ornamental entry, National University Ivan Franco - one among the oldest in Europe founded in 1661, Lychakiv memorial cemetery - most beautiful necropolis in Ukraine, which is rather a sculpture garden or a museum under open air than just a cemetery; High Castle from where you can enjoy the whole panoramic view of the city and surroundings beyond.

Excursion in the ancient part of the town. You will walk through the cozy streets of Lviv where each building is an architectural masterpiece with a rich history. You will discover The Opera House (1900) - an architectural masterpiece with gorgeous paintings and sculptures in the interior; Taras Shevchenko’s monument; Rynok square (16th century) - the heart of the city listed by UNESCO World Heritage Site; Armenian quarter with a splendid Armenian Virgin Mary’s Dormition Church (1370), Dominican Cathedral (1798); an interesting Pharmacy Museum that is one of the oldest operating pharmacies in the world; Baroque style Jesuit Cathedral; the Latin Cathedral and the Transfiguration Church etc.

Visiting the Jewish sites in Lviv: former ghetto, acting Synagogue, jewish street, the former Synagogue "Golden Rose", railway station Klepariv from which the Jews were sent to concentration camps moved to Germany during the last war, old Jewish cemetery, Yanivskyi cemetery – the place of Jewish mass murder. Overnight.

Day 8: Lviv

Breakfast. Free time or optional visit. Transfer to airport for your flight back home.

Program price in euro per person
	10+1 pax	15+1 pax	20+1 pax	25+1 pax	Additional payment for single room
Hotels 3*	998	876	782	740	221
Hotels 4*	1064	931	832	787	268