WEEKEND IN KIEV (4 days/3 nights)

DAY 1. FRIDAY:

07:15 – flight Tel Aviv – Kiev
10:30 – meeting with Hebrew/English-speaking guide in Kiev Borispol Airport
12:00 – half-day sight-seeing tour in KIEV (optional lunch):

•    monument of Mother Motherland
•    Kiev Pechersk Lavra:
    - Miniature museum
    - National Treasures Museum
    - Catacombs (optional)
•    observation tour around the central part of the city:
    - Mariinsky Park and Mariinsky Palace (President’s Residence)
    - Grushevsky str.
    - Ukrainian Parliament
    - Arch of Friendship

15:00 – check-in to hotel in Kiev for 2 nights
17:00 – free time in Kiev for shopping and rest
20:00 – optional dinner in Ukrainian Restaurant Shynok with folk-show

DAY 2. SATURDAY:

08:00 – breakfast at the hotel
10:00 – half-day walking tour in KIEV (optional lunch):
 
•    Shevchenko blvd.
•    Vladimirskaya str.
•    National Opera Theatre
•    Golden Gates
•    St. Sophia Cathedral
•    St. Michael Cathedral
•    Bolshaya Zhitomirskaya str.
•    Desyatinnaya str.
•    History Museum
•    St. Andrew’s Church
•    Andrew’s Descent (artistry and souvenirs market – Monmart of Kiev)

14:00 – optional boat trip or optional tour to National Pirogovo Museum
18:00 – optional dinner in Ukrainian Restaurant Lipsky Osobniak / Spotykach
19:00 – optional night tour or optional visit to opera or ballet

DAY 3. SUNDAY:

09:00 – breakfast at the hotel
10:00 – half-day tour around Jewish Kiev (optional lunch):

•    Brodsky synagogue and area:
    - the synagogue
    - house of Golda Meir
    - house of Sholom Aleikhem
    - Bessarabsky market
•    Baby Yar (3 monuments)
•    Podol (Old Jewish area):
    - Podol Synagogue
    - walk around the Jewish area
    - optional lunch in the Puzata Khata self-service Ukrainian restaurant

14:00 - free time in Kiev for shopping
19:00 – optional dinner on the terrace of Ukrainsky Stravy Ukr. Restaurant

DAY 4. MONDAY:

09:00 – breakfast at the hotel, check-out
10:00 – full-day tour to UMAN (optional lunch in Uman restaurant):

•    Dendrological Park Sofiyivka
•    Ohel of Rabbi Nakhman

17:00 – transfer from Uman to Kiev Borispol Airport
22:30 – flight to Tel Aviv