UKRAINE JEWISH HERITAGE TOURS - July 2013
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COSTS per person sharing are £1,195 single room supplement £395.
INCLUDES Hotels as below, most meals, vegetarian where kosher not available all guides fees, coach and museum fees for the entire trip:-
4 Star accommodation all nights except Vinnitsa where we stay in the 3 star Podolic Central Hotel
Lvov – Grand Hotel
Chernovtsi – Bukovna Central Hotel
Kamenets-Podolsky – Amadeus Historic Hotel
Odessa – Londonskaia Central Hotel
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| Day 1 |
Friday early morning depart Stanstead airport to Rzeszow in Poland and drive to Ukrainian border (100 km) after crossing the border in Krakovets meet your local escort guide drive to Lvov (75 km)
Please note that Ukrainian buses ARE NOT ALLOWED to enter Poland without passengers that is why a Polish bus has to bring the clients to Lvov hotel and return back. Starting from LVOV there will be a Ukrainian bus
Dinner at the hotel
Overnight in Lvov |
| Day 2 |
Saturday - Shabbos – walking tour of the central part of Lvov visiting the former Jewish Quarters
Overnight in Lvov
Dinner at the hotel |
| Day 3 |
Sunday AM continuation of the city tour by bus (to visit the monuments on the site of the former labour camp where the Jews met their death.
About 12.00 departure by bus for Chernivtsi (280 km, driving without stops 4 hrs) with stops in Rogatyn, Ivano-Frankovsk (a short city tour, visit of local Synagogue) and Kolomyia About 19.00 in Chernivtsi
Dinner at the hotel
Overnight in Chernivtsi |
| Day 4 |
Monday – whole day tour of Chernivtsi with a visit of local Jewish cultural society, cemetery
Local University (former Bukovyna Bishop palace)
Dinner at the city restaurant
Overnight in Chernivtsi |
| Day 5 |
Tuesday – whole day trip to Carpathian mountains to Vizhnitsa – in the past centre of Chassidic Dynasty Evening departure by bus to Kamenets-Podolsky (90 km)
Dinner at the hotel
Overnight in Kamenets-Podolsky |
| Day 6 |
Wednesday morning tour of Kamenets-Podolsky (museum-town where Polish, Jewish, Russia,
Armenian, Ukrainian culture flourished in the past) PM departure for Vinnitsa (220 km) with a stop in Medjibosh to visit a grave of Ba’al Shem Tov.
About 20.00 arrival in Vinnitsa
Dinner at the hotel
Overnight in Vinnitsa |
| Day 7 |
Thursday Drive to Odessa (435 km 7 hrs driving without stops) with a stop in Uman to visit a
grave site of Nachman from Bratslav (in the middle of the road) About 19.00 arrival in Odessa (your escort guide from Lvov departs as well as Lvov bus)
Dinner at the hotel
Overnight in Odessa |
| Day 8 |
Friday Meet your Odessa guide.
Full day tour of Jewish Odessa (visit of 2 Synagogues, Holocaust memorial, places connected with the life and activity of Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Issak Babel, Sholom Aleichem, Joseph Trumpelder, Chaim Nachman Bialik, Saul Tchernichowsky, Simon Frug, Osip Rabinovich, Mendele Mokher Seforim and others.) Visit of the local museum “Jewish Odessa)
Lunch at a kosher restaurant.
Overnight in Odessa |
| Day 9 |
Saturday Shabbos – 4 hrs walking tour of the central part of the city that had and still has
names as “Little Paris”, “Little Vienna” or “Mother Odessa”. The rest of the day free for personal discoveries of the city.
Dinner at a kosher restaurant
Overnight in Odessa |
| Day 10 |
Sunday homebound flight - From Odessa |
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