Meals: 4 «buffet breakfast» in the Hotel, lunch at the café in Miory town
Excursions:Minsk sightseeing tour with animation, Pedestrian walk along the ecological path in the landscape reserve
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PRICEfrom 400 EUR per person
LANDSCAPES OF BELARUS: VISIT TO THE LANDSCAPE RESERVE "YELNYA'' (FROM APRIL TO OCTOBER)
DAY 1
Arrival to MINSK.
Transfer to the Hotel (upon request). Check-in Hotel.
Free time.
Overnight stay in Minsk.
DAY 2
Breakfast in restaurant of the Hotel («buffet breakfast»).
Evening Minsk sightseeing tour (~3.5 hours). You will see the most valuable architectural monuments of the city: Cathedral Orthodox and Catholic Churches of the ХVII-XVIII centuries; St. Peter and St. Paul's Church of the beginning of ХVII century and the "Red" Church; the oldest street Nemiga which started its way from the Minsk castle, and the picturesque Upper Town. The historic centre of Minsk - the Upper Town - attracts the visitors by its unique atmosphere of the past which is felt in its old buildings and on its narrow streets where museums, cafes and restaurants, boutiques and sculptures are located. You will walk on silent paved small streets of the Trinity suburb and can render a memory tribute to soldiers internationalists on Island of Tears. During the tour you will see the pearl of Minsk - the building of the National Library, formed in the shape of a diamond.
You will visit Zamchische, places of the basis of ancient Minsk, will visit on Svoboda Square, from where went Minsk stone and where it to the sky lifted the towers and domes.
In the Old Town you can see the animation in szlachta style.
Return to the Hotel.
Free time.
Overnight stay in Minsk.
DAY 3
Breakfast in restaurant of the Hotel.
Early departure to Miory (230 km., 3 hours). On the way we make one sanitary stop before arriving to Begoml town. You can have a snack in the cafe or buy something on the road.
Republican landscape reserve "Yelnya" is one of the most unique facilities reserve fund of Belarus. It is the largest in Belarus and one of Europe's largest lake-mire complex. On its territory there are about 30 large and medium-sized lakes, the biggest of them - and the Black Yelnia connected ducts. Impressive for its size and beauty of the lake and other array. All in all, this unique natural complex has 118 lakes, including small.
Swamp Elnya is a kind of natural history. Its value is that it is a monument of a distant ice age, and one of the oldest objects in Belarus. Since human exposure to it was minimal, there remain unique species of plants and animals, as well as large peat deposits formed.
Excursion to the visitor center, acquaintance with the upper marsh, history of its formation, flora and fauna of this unique natural complex.
Lunch at the café in Miory town.
Transfer to the village of Sukhoverje - the edge of the swamp, the pedestrian part of the excursion begins from this point.
OPTION 1 for a group of up to 10 people. We reach Lake Kurganistoe on a swamp-boat, where we study the swamp from the inside, walk to the lake, take pictures.
OPTION 2 for a group of more than 10 people or simply a more active group. We walk on foot through the forest 2.5 km before the beginning of the flooring. Then we walk to Lake Kurganistoe, studying the flora and fauna of the marsh on the way. We walk in swamp-shoes on the lake, in case of good weather visitors can swim. A large group can go on swamp-boats.
Return to Minsk. Free time.
Overnight stay in Minsk.
DAY 4
Breakfast in restaurant of the Hotel («buffet breakfast»).
Free time.
Overnight stay in Minsk.
DAY 5
Breakfast in restaurant of the Hotel («buffet breakfast»).
Check-out.
Transfer to the National Airport Minsk-2 (upon request).