Day 1 | MOSCOW Arrive in Moscow and check in to hotel. Time to relax or explore this fascinating city.
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Day 2 | MOSCOW A day to walk around the Kremlin and Red Square and explore the other highlights of Russia's capital city. (B)
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Day 3 | MOSCOW - ROSTOV VELIKY Today we start our tour of the 'Golden Ring' - an area of very old towns NE of Moscow. We visit the Monastery of St Sergius in Sergiev Posad, followed by beautiful Pereslavl on the way to Rostov Veliky. (B)
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Day 4 | ROSTOV VELIKY - YAROSLAVL In the morning we have the opportunity to row on lake Nero and time to explore the many churches and museums of the Rostov Kremlin, before travelling to Yaroslavl, an enchanting old town on the banks of the Volga. (B)
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Day 5 | YAROSLAVL - KOSTROMA A morning to explore Yaroslavl before travelling to Kostroma, one of the loveliest of the Golden Ring towns, with stunning medieval monasteries and churches. Optional evening cruise on the Volga River. (B)
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Day 6 | KOSTROMA - SUZDAL After a leisurely morning in Kostroma we continue by bus to Suzdal, where you will think you have travelled back in time to ancient Russia. (B)
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Day 7 | VLADIMIR - NOVGOROD The morning is free to explore the monasteries, convents and wooden cottages of Suzdal. Later we visit Bogolyubovo and Vladimir, containing some of the most beautiful buildings in Russia, before we journey back to Moscow for the overnight train to Novgorod. (B)
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Day 8 | NOVGOROD Full day to explore Novgorod, opportunity in the evening to try a Russian sauna at the local banya (bathhouse).
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Day 9 | NOVGOROD - ST. PETERSBURG Travel to St Petersburg, Russia's city of canals. (B)
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Day 10 | ST PETERSBURG A full day to explore the numerous sights, such as the world famous Hermitage, or visit the nearby palaces and gardens of Pushkin or Pavlovsk. (B)
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Day 11 | ST PETERSBURG We travel to Petrodvorets, a spectacular palace built by Peter the Great and famed for its avenue of fountains. (B)
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Day 12 | ST PETERSBURG Tour ends. (B)
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This is your chance to experience the intoxicating highlights of this vast and fascinating country. With the allure of the bold, brash oxymoron that is Moscow, the cultured elegance of St Petersburg and the most picturesque towns of the fam... 
