Travelling Workshop "Short Summer of North"
(27 July - 5 Aug)
Programme description |
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Arrival |
| Afternoon: |
Get-to-know bus tour |
| Evening: |
Official opening |
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| Day 1 details -> |
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| Morning: |
Arrival, airport pick-up on demand, check-in, state required tourists’ registration |
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We pick you up from the hotel/hostel, offer snacks in the bus, make a relaxed sight-seeing trip for general city overview- with very basic info, stops and get to know games, pictures, coffee-break |
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Welcome word in a conference room, ppt introduction of everyone, basic Russian language course.
Afterwards, you will be offered a place to have dinner and a bar to continue the “get to know each other” part |
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| Morning: |
Treasure hunt |
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Visit to Peter&Paul Fortress and Cathedral
Neva beach |
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"Intro to Russian traditions and history" presentation and discusion
Folk show/ Russian Ballet (optional)
Boat trip in the night |
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| Day 2 details -> |
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| Morning: |
Meet up in the city: walking tour based on quiz, treasure hunt, surprise encounters – all leading you to the lunch place |
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| Afternoon: |
Visit to Peter& Paul Fortress, walk on the walls, river beach panorama, visit to casemates and/or Peter& Paul Cathedral, the burial place of most Russian tsars |
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"Intro to Russian traditions and history"- half an hour presentation and discussion; Folk show/ Russian Ballet (optional)
Boat trip in the white night |
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Trip to the country-side.
Exploring the region- lakes, pine-trees.
Overnight in the camping site |
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| Day 3 details -> |
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Meet up at the station, 1.5 hour train ride to the country-side
Walking route in the wilderness - 4 km
Russian hikers’ lunch*: cooking on fire |
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| Afternoon: |
Russian traditional sport games and contests - beware! :)
Another walk (~ 4 km) to the camping site
Check-in
Sauna |
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| Evening: |
Dinner in a camping cafe, rest
Romantic evening at the lakeshore |
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Lunch and the overnight in a camping are included in the package |
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Sport-games or chill-out |
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Returning to Saint-Petersburg |
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Clubbing night |
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| Day 4 details -> |
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Relaxed summer morning: sport games or just a chill-out |
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Returning to St.Petersburg by train
Visit to the Orthodox Resurrection Church |
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| Evening: |
Late night walk for the bridges rise
Clubbing (optional) |
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| Morning: |
Boat ride through Finnish Gulf |
| Afternoon: |
Peterhoff park and palace |
| Evening: |
«Learning circle»
Jazz club |
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| Day 5 details -> |
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“Curious places” |
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Hermitage museum |
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Russian cooking evening |
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| Day 6 details -> |
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| Morning: |
Explore through curious places: courtyards, roofs, hidden beauty |
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Guided tour in Hermitage: no chance to see everything in one day, but you will have a big overview |
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| Evening: |
Get together to learn cooking Russian food*, eat, have fun |
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Ingredients, cooking equipment, etc. are included in the basic package. Drinks are not. |
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| Morning: |
Early departure by bus |
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Day in Great Novgorod- the ancient capital of Russians |
| Evening: |
Late return by bus |
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| Day 7 details -> |
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| Morning: |
Early pick up by bus from your hotel*, way to Novgorod (250 km)
Info on the history of Great Novgorod Republic |
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Day in ancient Novgorod: Old Kremlin, Churches, Monasteries, Museum of Wooden Sculpture |
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Trip back* |
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Morning coffee/snack and packed dinner are included in the basic package |
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| Morning: |
Petersburg at World War II |
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Petersburg of Dostoyevsky |
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Bike trip through the night city |
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| Day 8 details -> |
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| Morning: |
Walking/public transport excursion: St.Petersburg at World War II - monuments, memorials, Siege (1941-1944) |
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| Afternoon: |
Petersburg of Dostoyevsky- gloomy and mysterious.
Proposed dinner in “Idiot” restaurant (vegetarian) |
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| Evening: |
Bike trip through the night city |
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| Morning: |
Late morning gathering, trip to Pushkin town (30 km) |
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Pushkin town |
| Evening: |
Closing session, farewell |
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| Day 9 details -> |
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| Morning: |
Trip to Pushkin town by train |
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Pushkin town: marvelous Elisabeth’ palace (including the Amber chamber & Dutch rooms), park, late lunch in town |
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| Evening: |
Closing session
Farewell party (surprise) |
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