Around Moscow food tour

1 DAY: MOSCOW
Pick-up from the airport and transfer to the hotel.

2 DAY: TULA
Breakfast in the hotel.
Transfer to the Kursky railway station. Depart for Tula by the train “Lastochka” (places in cars with seating arrangement will be provided).
Tour of the Kremlin of Tula.
Lunch in a local restaurant.
Visit to the Museum of the Tula confectionary and gingerbread-producing factory.
Visit to the exhibition of the museum, talk on the appearance and development of the gingerbread manufacture in Russia and abroad
Getting to know the technicalities of the confectionary production process
Visit to the production shop at work
Tasting of the produce from the conveyor belt
Master class in baking traditional Tula gingerbread
Depart for Moscow by train (places in cars with seating arrangement will be provided).
Russian dinner in a local restaurant.
OPTIONAL BUS TOUR “MOSCOW BY NIGHT WITH A VISIT TO THE MOSCOW UNDERGROUND STATIONS”

3 DAY: MOSCOW REGION
Breakfast in the hotel.
Depart for the eco-farm by bus. Tour of the eco-farm.
Lunch of original farm produce. Farmer’s cheese tasting.
Return to Moscow by bus.
Ukrainian dinner in a local restaurant.
OPTIONAL NIGHT WALKING TOUR OF MOSCOW “MYSTERY OF THE CAPITAL”.

4 DAY: KOLOMNA
Breakfast in the hotel.
Depart for Kolomna by bus.
City tour with a visit to the Kremlin of Kolomna.
Lunch in a local restaurant (menu inspired by dishes favored by Old Russia’s merchants).
Visit to the fruit pastille producing factory. Theatrical performance, visit to the production shops. Traditional tea party in a local style.
Depart for Moscow by bus.
Caucasian dinner in a local restaurant.
OPTIONAL VISIT TO THE VIEWING PLATFORM IN THE MOSCOW-CITY COMPLEX.

5 DAY: YAROSLAVL
Breakfast in the hotel.
Check out of the hotel, transfer to the Yaroslavsky railway station. Depart for Yaroslavl by train (places in cars with seating arrangement will be provided).
Transfer to Nekrasovskoye.
Lunch will be organized in a cafe located on the territory of Russia’s only Salt island.
Visit to the unique Landscape and Ethnographic Salt museum: you will learn about the Great salt route, the history of salt works in Russia. You will learn about the salt-producing process: the saline solution was extracted from special wells and the salt was evaporated; then you will take a hand in the salt- producing process. Visit to the salt barn where you will learn about the manufacture of cooperage barrels for salting food products and will be told some secrets and recipes. The guide will tell you how to make the cleanest and the healthies salt — the black salt — and will give you an opportunity to taste it. And then you will participate in traditional Russian entertaining activities.
Return to Yaroslavl. Accommodation in the hotel.
Dinner.
OPTIONAL NIGHT TOUR OF YAROSLAVL BY BUS.

6 DAY: PERESLAVL-ZALESSKY
Breakfast in the hotel.
Check-out of the hotel, depart for Pereslavl-Zalessky by bus.
Interactive gastronomic program in the museum “The Kingdom of vendace” with vendace tasting, drinks and freshly-baked bread.
Vendace, an incredibly delicious fish, is a true gastronomic brand of the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky. After tasting this fish you will understand why it was so favored by Russian tsars. Then the guide will tell you how this fish was caught, salted and preserved.
Lunch (traditional Russian menu).
Excursion to the museum of tea with tasting three kinds of willow-herb tea.
You will learn what kind of tea the Russians drank before the 19th century which saw the speed popularization of the Chinese and Indian teas. The tea expert will tell you about the willow-herb tea, about the teas that were made in Siberia and Far East and when Russian tea makers learnt to obtain fermented tea.
City tour of Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Depart for Moscow by bus. Accommodation in the hotel.
Dinner in the hotel.
OPTIONAL DINNER WITH WINE TASTING (INSTEAD OF THE DINNER INCLUDED IN THE TOUR).

7 DAY: MOSCOW
Transfer from hotel to the airport/railway station

The program is preliminary. The excursion blocks can be replaced with the similar ones, without changing main waypoints.
For groups of less than 5 pax we reserve the right to use public transportation on short distances.
Groups of different languages can be combined in one bus with individual guides.

OFF SEASON 2024
28 Sept – 05 Oct
06 Oct – 12 Oct
13 Oct – 19 Oct
20 Oct – 26 Oct
10 Nov – 16 Nov
17 Nov – 23 Nov

SEASON 2024
05 May – 11 May
12 May – 18 May
19 May – 25 May
02 June – 08 June
09 June – 15 June
16 June – 22 June
30 June – 06 July
07 July – 13 July
14 July – 20 July
21 July – 27 July
28 July – 03 Aug
04 Aug – 10 Aug
11 Aug – 17 Aug
18 Aug – 24 Aug
25 Aug – 31 Aug
01 Sept – 07 Sept
08 Sept – 14 Sept
16 Sept – 21 Sept

Our prices include:

• Accommodation in Moscow in 4* hotel (Holiday Inn Tagansky or Renaissance Monarch or similiar)
• Accommodation in Yaroslavl 4* (Park Inn by Raidisson or Azimut or similar)
• Bed and breakfast in hotels
• Luggage handling in hotels
• Catering per program (including all mentioned degustations)
• Transport and transfers service per program
• Local English, French, German, Italian, Spanish speaking guide on Day 2. Day 5, Day 6
• Local English, French, German, Italian, Spanish speaking assistant on Day 1 and Day 7
• Local Russian speaking guides on Day 3 and Day 4 with further translation into appropriate language

Supplementary:

• Hotel and program in Moscow for pre/post tour
• Insurance of medical, medical transport and other expenses
• Accident insurance
• Optional visits (can be prebooked only)

* If restrictions are imposed on the entrance to museums for a certain number of people, we can serve group requests with the division of groups into smaller ones, with the predominant use of the same transport (or with a different number and capacity of transport), but with a large number of guides.
** Some museums or excursions can be excluded from the program if circumstances beyond the control of the tour operator require it (time constraints due to covid-19 / bans on the operation of facilities). At the same time, as far as possible, we will offer an alternative replacement.