Breakfast at the hotel.

Meeting the guide at the hotel lobby. Departure for Nizhny Novgorod for the sightseeing program.

(~3.5 hours + a recreation stop on the way for 20 minutes)

Lunch in a caf? in Cheboksary.

The city of Cheboksary, the capital of the Chuvash Republic, is located at the right bank of Volga river. A wooden log fortress was built on the shore of a Volga bay on the order of Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century. It got the name of Cheboksary. The tour through Cheboksary includes sightseeing in the old part of the city. Youwillseetheembankment, which is one of the most beautiful on Volga, the bay of Cheboksary, a gem of the city, a monument to love - Taganait, a monument to Vasily Chapayev, a sculpture of Mother the Patroness, an even a monument to Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov in Merchant Yefremov Boulevard. Participate in the program

Visit a signature store for confectionary and chocolate factory Akkond.

Dinner in a restaurant.

Leisure time.

Check-out.

Departure for the sightseeing program.

Enjoy the original beauty of Kazan, see the bright colors of its streets and squares with your own eyes, learn where teeming treasures of Khans of Kazan are kept and where water boiled in a cauldron with no fire by taking the sightseeing tour. The sites of the millennium-old city combine the culture of the West and traditions of the East: Old Tatar Settlement where Tatar residents lived from the 16th century, Textiles Settlement originating as a result of industrial reforms by Peter I, fountain squares, Kaban lake with its mysteries and legends, a simulated Tatar village TuganAvylym (My Native Village), a new building of the Puppet Show, Kazan Federal University, Liberty Square as a cultural and administrative center of Kazan. During the sightseeing tour, you will see a variety of minarets and cupolas, crescents and crosses, which is a proof of a good neighborliness of the two native peoples - Tatars and Russians.

The Kazan Kremlin is the main sight of the city; it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The Kremlin is an official residence of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and a state museum-preserve attended by thousands of tourists every year. Thewhite-stoneKremlinis the heart of the ancient city that incorporates the culture of the East and West. Minarets of the main mosque of the city - Qul Sharif - shoot up into the sky, and cupolas of the Annunciation Cathedral, oldest one in Kazan, shine with gold. Insidethefortress, there is one of the symbols of Kazan - the famous

Lunch in a restaurant.

Folklore program YakynDuslar

A walk in a pedestrian Bauman Street -The Arbat of Kazan.

Leisure time. EXTRA Night city tour The Lights of Kazan
Do you know how streets of Kazan were lit before the electricity? You don't? If you are still full of vigor after an extensive sightseeing program and want to see a different Kazan, to hear about a different Kazan, then you are invited to immerse yourselves into the fairy-tale-like image of the capital. Kazan will show itself to you quiet and peaceful, but still full of lights from back-lit historical and modern buildings. The tour will take place in the brightest sights of the night city.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Departure for the sightseeing program.

Kazan Sviyazhsk (~1.5 hour)

Sviyazhsk is a historical and cultural gem of the Republic of Tatarstan. Atpresent, the place where an ancient fortress used to be is surrounded with waters of Volga river. Inthepast, thefortressserved as a military outpost in the Volga region and a place to prepare troops for an assault against an unassailable fortress of Kazan. In the course of time, as its value as a military facility diminished, Sviyazhsk became a spiritual center of the Middle Volga. The sightseeing tour in Sviyazhsk comprises unique monuments of history: the Cathedral of the Joy for All Who Grieve, one of the oldest wooden temples of Russia - the Holy Trinity Church, an operating Assumption Monastery featuring an architectural ensemble of the 16-17 centuries, Stable Yard, workshops.Attending the fine arts gallery where you will see panoramas of various period of the history of Sviyazhsk and Biblical scenes borrowed from churches of Sviyazhsk(entrance fee shall be paid on your own)or a free time.

Sviyazhsk Kazan(~1.5 hour)

Lunch in a restaurant.

Culinary traditions of the Tatar cuisine shaped up for several centuries. The cuisine features its specific traditions. The best cooks will share secrets of making such well-known Tatar meals as chak-chak, echpochmak, vakbelesh, gubadia with you. During the master class, anyone can feel oneself to be a remounted cook and participate in making national meals.

Leisure time.

Tasting session in a signature shop of Arysh Maye. Each guest becomes a member of an exciting tour through the shop accompanied by a guide and tastes the signature alcoholic drinks. The gem of the collection by Tatspirtprom is Khanskaya vodka. The divined rink will give you the feeling of exaltation! A tasting session for four more drinks is arranged in a special tasting room. The guests are offered horse-meet sausage kyzylyk, crackers, olives, cheese, pickling cucumbers, lemon as refreshments.
After the tasting session, the tourists can buy exclusive products by the company: bitters, aperitifs, vermouths, cognacs and cognac-based drinks, whiskey, table wines, dessert wines, sparkling wines, and, of course, Khanskaya vodka, as well as famous balms Bugulma and Tatarstan.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Meeting the guide at the hotel lobby. Departure for the sightseeing program to the town of Bolgar.

Kazan Bolgar (~3 hours)Kazan Bolgar (~3 hours)

More than 700 years ago, in the place of the present-day town of Bolgar, there was an ancient city, the capital of Volga Bulgaria - an early-feudal state located in the interfluve of Volga and Kama rivers. The historical and archeological site of Bolgar was included in the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites. During the tour, one can walk along remains of white-stone walls of ancient buildings to imagine the life thriving there many centuries ago… See all the landmarks remaining in the territory of the ancient town site: Congregational Mosque, East and North Mausoleums, Khans' Mausoleum, Minor Minaret, Black Chamber, White Chamber, Khans' Bathing House, Khans' Palace.
Visit the Literacy Museum at the embankment of Volga,the Memorial Signbuilt to commemorate the official adoption of Islam by the ancient Bolgars, where the world-biggest printed Quran is kept.

Lunch in a restaurant in Bolgar.After the lunch, you can get acquainted with new sites in Bolgar. See one of the most significant structures added to the contemporary collections of the architectural heritage of Tatarstan- AkMechet(the White Mosque).

Bolgar Samara (~4 hours)

Check-in. Leisure time.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Check-out.Transfer to the airport.
*This is an indicative program. The full tour program is issued upon arrival.