2 day tours of the golden circle. Bus tours (2). Weekend tours - what is it

The journey will start with a visit to Sergiev Posad in the Moscow region, famous for its Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Here we will see the Trinity Cathedral and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin with the tomb of the metropolitans of Moscow.

Our journey will continue with a transfer to Pereslavl-Zalessky. In the oldest part of the city, you can see twelve-meter earthen ramparts (the remains of the city fortification) and spiritual buildings:

• Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, where Prince Alexander Nevsky was baptized;
• Cathedral of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God;
• Church of Alexander Nevsky;

A visit to Lake Pleshcheyevo will be interesting for its energy: here is the shrine of ancestors - Sin-stone. People come to him, thirsting for healing and believing that over time the boulder has not lost its strength.

We will continue our journey by bus to Rostov the Great, where we will learn about the main craft - painting on smooth enamels (finift). After the tour, we will move to Yaroslavl and visit the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery and the Cathedral, the walls of which are decorated with paintings from the era of Ivan the Terrible. Bright touches to the portrait of Yaroslavl are the chamber church of Elijah the Prophet, the embankment and merchant's mansions.

Wonders of the Kostroma land

During your visit to Kostroma, you will get acquainted with the modern process of making jewelry at the oldest factory in this industry. Those who wish will be able to purchase products at a price from the manufacturer in the company's company store.

The choice of the group is offered:

• theatrical tour with a buffet table;
• program at the museum with traditional tea drinking;
• visiting the Terem of the Snow Maiden;
• a trip to the moose farm.

At the end of the program - a bus sightseeing tour of Kostroma with a visit to the shopping arcade, fire tower, Ipatiev Monastery.

Suzdal Principality

We offer a sightseeing tour of the city-museum of Suzdal, where some of the 200 monuments have UNESCO World Heritage status. You will get acquainted with the sights:

• the Kremlin with the Cross Chamber, where royal decrees were announced;
• Spaso-Efimiev Monastery with a program of bell ringing;
• Museum of Wooden Architecture;
• Women's Intercession Monastery.

Tour of the ancient capital of North-Eastern Rus' - the city of Vladimir. You will get acquainted with the sights of the 12th century. We offer a visit to choose from: the museum "Crystal, lacquer miniatures and embroidery", the exhibition "Old Vladimir" in the old tower, the Gingerbread Museum, where a master class is held on painting it.

county town

Our journey will pass through the "district" towns, the first stop will be Kalyazin. You will see the unique "floating" bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral, the first tier of which is partially hidden under the water level.

The next point of our journey will be Uglich, which in 1591 became the site of the murder of the son of Ivan the Terrible. An introductory tour will be held in Uglich, where you will visit:

• Uglich Kremlin;
• Transfiguration Cathedral;
• Chambers of specific princes;
• Church of Demetrius on the Blood.

Moving to Myshkin, which received the status of a city in 1771. During the sightseeing tour you will get to the museum of Russian felt boots, the house of crafts (blacksmiths), the Mouse Palace.

Your journey will end in Martynovo. It is here that a rare nationality lives - the Katskari. It has its own characteristics in folklore traditions, language and customs.

Spending the weekend actively and mentally is a great idea for a holiday with family or friends. Many believe that there are no interesting places and settlements to explore in Russia. Travel company "Horizons" refutes this myth, offering visitors and Muscovites to plunge into the life, way of life and faith of the ancient Slavs in the territory of their original habitat. Every educated person is obliged to know the history of his origin, for which 2-day tours around the Golden Ring were organized.

Russian stronghold of the Slavs

Having delved into the history of the ancient Slavs on the territory of Rus', one can define the Golden Ring as the cultural and craft center of our ancestors. This zone is a concentration of monuments, churches, cathedrals and monasteries representing the culture of Ancient Rus'. Horizons will help organize 2 day tours around the Golden Ring.

Weekend tours of the Golden Ring by bus

All 2-day excursions include accommodation, meals, transport costs and the cost of tourist guide services in their cost. It is recommended to take with you only funds for buying souvenirs - the company will take care of the rest. There are two-day tours from Saturday (morning) to Sunday (evening), which allows you to cover several cities of the Golden Ring as much as possible and at the same time relax during the 2-day tour of the Golden Ring.

The list of routes that can be done consists of five items:

• Murom-Vyksa-Diveevo. On the first day, a trip to the city of Murom is provided, followed by an overnight stay in Vyksa. On the second day - a trip to Diveevo, including a sightseeing bus tour, a walk and a visit to the monastery.
• Vladimir-Suzdal. The path consists of a trip to the city of Vladimir on the first day and to Suzdal on the second day. Here, tourists are waiting for a tour of the Cathedral Square, the Suzdal Kremlin, the Assumption Church and other masterpieces of architecture.
• Yaroslavl-Kostroma. Of the interesting, it should be noted the acquaintance with the Epiphany Anastasia Convent, which owns the Miraculous Fedorov Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
• Kashin-Uglich-Myshkin-Kalyazin. Saturated mainly walking tour of the four settlements.
• Rostov - Pereslavl-Zalessky. Visiting the Assumption Cathedral on the first day and the Transfiguration Cathedral on the second, as well as many monuments, temples and monasteries.

Excursions to the places that form the Golden Ring plunge a person into an atmosphere of spirituality and faith for 2 days. Reviews of such trips are extremely positive, because many consider their duration and price to be optimal for a city dweller. This ratio is informative, but it does not have time to tire the tourist.

Golden Ring excursion for 2 days

It is convenient to analyze prices and order two-day tours along the Golden Ring or other excursions from Moscow on the company's website "Horizons". Good memories don't cost a lot of money!

2-seater- hotel accommodation in a double room, 1-seater- Accommodation in a hotel in a single room.

Weekend tours - what is it?

Weekend tours are called tours for 2 days Saturday-Sunday and holidays. Even if the tour starts on Friday evening and ends on Monday morning, it will still be a "weekend tour". It will be because we are absent from work only on weekends.

Weekend tours can be bus and rail. A train tour becomes when you need to buy a train ticket. And even if you go one way by bus and return by train, the tour will immediately become a train tour.

Weekend tours - only near Moscow, and then you can?

Indeed, in 1 day the bus will not go very far. On the second day, you have to return, so you can’t continue the journey “on and on”. But here train tours come to the rescue: the train travels faster than the bus, and there are sleeping places on the train - we can travel at night. Therefore, to say that you won’t go far over the weekend is wrong. Already now we can get out for the weekend to Kazan - the Third Capital of Russia, and to Penza through Lermontov places, and get to the Pearl of the North of Kizhi.

Can children be taken on the tour?

It all depends on the age of the children. If the children are younger than school age, then it is impossible. Children get tired earlier than we do, and when tired, they can be capricious. That's why they are children. If the child is small, it is better to go somewhere with him yourself, and not take him on a tour.
If the child has reached school age, then you even need to take it with you, and not only you can. Let's give a wrong example with classical music: while we don't take a little one to symphony concerts, the child doesn't understand, but when he grows up, he doesn't want to, he doesn't understand. And it would be right to take the child with you.
Only of course everything should be in moderation. Every weekend the whole year to go on tours - and we will not be able to. And what can we say about our children? Yes, they are sometimes stronger and more resilient than us. But it is not necessary to test endurance for strength.

You are going to rest!

Yes, yes, the very first goal that must be pursued is to relax. You will be entertained by a good guide with interesting stories, you will be shown beautiful places and interesting things. But no one will examine you, you should not report to anyone, you are going for yourself. And if you really like it, you can go again. Remember how the children: “I watched this, it’s interesting,” and everyone sits down to watch again. Pleasant and repeatable!

What if the weather is bad?

All weekend tours are built in such a way that tourists, exhausted by office life, like everything. And they wanted to go again. This is the basis of the tourism business. And then, if you go on tour once, and then not with your foot, then all travel agencies will go bankrupt. As a matter of fact, all weekend tours are oriented just for people who work from Monday to Friday and who have only two days off. Therefore, even in bad weather, you will be taken in such ways that you do not get wet and do not freeze. Of course, you need to bring your own clothes for bad weather.

How much can I take on the tour?

Weekend tours are short, only two days. Therefore, it simply does not make sense to take a lot of things. Although there is no limit on the size of the suitcase. A large suitcase will simply be inconvenient for you. But you need to take things in case the weather changes. Outside of Moscow, the weather can be different, and you yourself have noticed how the weather can change literally in a day. This must be foreseen.

Is it possible to buy a weekend tour on the day of departure?

No, it won't work. You book a hotel, meals, excursions. And when you arrive early on Saturday morning to the departing bus, you may not be able to reorder the service for you. And this is provided that there are still empty seats on the bus.

How far in advance should I buy a weekend tour?

It's an old habit that we like to put off shopping until the last minute. And this is wrong, places on the tour may end. And not only the bus runs out of seats, but also the hotel. This is what limits us: seats on the bus and a hotel room. Therefore, the answer sounds traditional: The sooner the better.

Break out of ordinary life

Traveling along the Golden Ring of Russia is the same as getting into another world. Even from childhood, familiar things here seem different, reveal their history, acquire a different meaning. Here you can completely relax. After all, even if you go to your country house, you won’t rest like that. At the dacha we stay with our thoughts. And here ... the guide tells something interesting ... And you can even doze off on the way, no one will examine you anyway. Even though the weekend tour is so short, you still come back a different person.

How are weekend tours different?

"Classic sightseeing tours" and "fun tours"

• All tours, both "classic" and "entertainment" are built on the same principle - to give you pleasure. In the "classic" tours, each guide, having worked out works on history, art criticism, literature especially for you, creates his own, only his, unique story - an excursion.
• In "entertainment" tours, or, more precisely, "tours with entertainment programs", "classic" excursions are also waiting for you, but only something else has been added to these tours to interest you, entertain you, and improve your mood even more.

Rostov the Great - Yaroslavl - Kostroma

W The Golden Ring of Russia is the oldest and most popular classical sightseeing tour in Russia. Contrary to popular belief, many cities included in the program of excursions along the Golden Ring do not belong to the "golden" cities. To be precise, officially the Golden Ring route includes 8 ancient cities. The main condition is the preservation of monuments in them until the Mongol era. These are Sergiev Posad, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov the Great, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo, Suzdal and Vladimir. It can also include the villages of Kideksha (residence of Yuri Dolgoruky) and Bogolyubovo (stone chambers of Andrei Bogolyubsky).

P about another version, the classic Golden Ring includes 5 more cities - Tutaev, Uglich, Ples, Yuryev-Polsky and Aleksandrov, but Ivanovo does not belong to the Golden Ring, since it does not have enough ancient monuments.

P In addition to the term "classic", there is also an excursion tour of the "Big Golden Ring". However, the inclusion of such cities as Gorokhovets, Gus-Khrustalny, Dmitrov, Kalyazin, Myshkin, Palekh, Plyos, Rybinsk, Shuya and even Moscow is debatable.

IN 2015, Kasimov (as the ancient Russian city of Gorodets Meshchersky, founded in 1152 by the same Yuri Dolgoruky and later granted by Vasily the Dark to the Tatar prince Kasim in 1452), and Kaluga were officially ranked as the Golden Ring.

ABOUT We draw your attention to the fact that here are tours both along the classic Golden Ring of Russia (Big and Small), as well as weekend excursions to certain cities of the route, as well as tours with the capture of cities from neighboring regions - no less interesting, although perhaps , and inferior in beauty to the churches and monasteries of the Golden Ring, many of which are under the protection of UNESCO.

T Tours and tours of the Golden Ring are mostly popular among the Russians themselves, especially among the residents of Moscow. These tours are very convenient: during one weekend you can visit 2-4 ancient Russian cities with many monasteries, monuments of civil architecture, wonderful museums (including unique open-air museums of wooden architecture), churches and ancient streets. In order to fully get acquainted with the so-called Big Golden Ring of Russia, which includes, in addition to the cities of the Golden Ring themselves, the neighboring ones - for example, Rybinsk, Tutaev, Kashin, Kalyazin, Krasnoe-on-Volga, Murom, Gus-Khrustalny and Gus- Zhelezny, Kasimov, etc., it is not at all necessary to take a week's vacation. We offer you radial one-day excursions around the Golden Ring, which are held regularly throughout the year. Or, as mentioned above, you can take a two-three-day tour in one of the directions (Yaroslavsky or Gorky highway).

D There are only 5 two-day tours around the Golden Ring for the weekend: Murom - Diveevo (+ Vyksa), Kalyazin - Uglich - Myshkin - Myrtynovo, Rostov - Yaroslavl - Kostroma, Rostov - Kostroma - Ples and Vladimir - Bogolyubovo - Suzdal. All other cities of the Golden Ring can be seen as part of multi-day programs. For the holidays, author's tours are offered with visits to "rare" cities - Rybinsk, Kashin, the village of Borisoglebsky, Yuzha, Palekh, Tutaev and others.

IN In recent years, in addition to the standard sightseeing objects, most tours along the Golden Ring have included various interactive programs that introduce tourists to the peculiarities of everyday life, local folklore, customs and the ancient way of life. For example, in a remote village in the Yaroslavl region, you can get acquainted with the real Baba Yaga, and in Myshkin - with the now forgotten Katskari people. Also, many excursion tours around the Golden Ring include master classes (tourists make various souvenirs, dolls, amulets, jewelry and dishes with their own hands).

TO Unfortunately, we are forced to state that the Golden Ring of Russia is not a top priority for tourists from Western Europe and other countries. This is understandable: Russia is huge, and to see the main attractions (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Baikal, Siberia, Pskov and Novgorod, the Trans-Siberian Railway), etc. there is not enough time even for a two-week tour (which, by the way, is by no means cheap). What can we say about the Golden Ring! As a rule, foreigners are limited to visiting Vladimir and Suzdal.

ABOUT Please note that our tours include not only all the cities of the official Big Golden Ring, but also cities that expand knowledge about a particular region that is part of the region of Central Russia. For example, in recent years, tourism has been actively expanding in the Ivanovo region. We have tours that focus on this particular region.

Our advantages:

• Copyright + classic tours
• Tours for families with children (interactive programs, fairy tale characters)
• Discount for pensioners and children on the main place
• Prices below the rack for all programs

Hot tours

TO As you know, there are no last-minute tours around the Golden Ring in the traditional sense, as is customary for package tours to Egypt and Turkey. The cost of tours does not include air travel, and as for hotels, the tour operator can simply refuse several rooms on the eve of arrival without any penalties (such standard agreements with hotels). The only thing the tour operator risks is empty seats on the bus. Therefore, as a rule, the price of the tour is NEVER reduced before arrival. An exception (and even a rare one) may be New Year's tours.

T However, we offer on our own behalf discounts for tours close in date. Our offer is very simple - choose any tour of the Golden Ring, which has places for tomorrow, have time to pay for it before 18:00 of the current day - and we will provide a discount of 5% of its cost. Discounts are cumulative: if, for example, you are a pensioner, your discount will be 9%, if you are our regular customer and apply for the third or more time, your discount will be 7%, etc.