Kiev Overland
Odessa - Kiev - Yalta
Yalta - Kiev - Odessa

Highlights of tour:

Day One:

 You will start your Kiev overland tour with the same Yalta sightseeing program as described on Yalta Half-Day Tour, ending at a local restaurant for lunch.  After lunch, you will continue with a scenic transfer to Simpheropol airport for you charter flight to Kiev. On arrival at Kiev, you will be transfered from the airport directly to the hotel for check-in. After a short rest, you will meet for dinner at the hotel, followed by a folk show.

Day two:

Enjoy and early breakfast at the hote, then join your motor coach for a sightseeing tour of the ancient, gold-domed capital of Ukraine.

One of the oldest cities in Europe, Kiev predated Moscow by several centuries and St. Petersburg by nearly 1,000 years. Your ride around the city will let you enjoy it's broad boulevards, leafy parks and medieval monastaries perched majestically on bluffs abouve the Dnieper River. The splendid rococo, baroque and art deco architecture gives Kiev a decidely Western European flavour.  The earliest settlements go back as far as the 1st century A.D., and by the 5th centruy Kiev was already an important commercial center.

You will visit the monastery of the caves and st. Sofia's Cathedral, have some free time to explore ST. Andrew's Castherdra, and enjoy a creise on the Dnieper Rier which leaves from the old Kiev artisian area of Podol.

Return to the hotel for lunch and if tiem permits, you can browse in the hotel gift shop.

After lunch your coach will take you back to the airport for your charter flight to Odessa.  You will be transfered directly to the port and your ship where you will ariive in the late afternoon.

Note:  This tour can also start from Odessa.  In this case the order of sights visited may very.