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MURMANSK WINTER CITY BREAK

Murmansk

4 Days / 3 Nights

DAY 1. MURMANSK (Arrival + Lunch + City tour + Icebreaker “Lenin” + Northern Lights Hunting)

Arrival to Murmansk, meeting with local guide. Transfer to the city.

Lunch in the city restaurant.

13.00-15.00 City tour. We’re going to see the central square of Murmansk “Pyat’ Uglov” (“Five Corners”), the very place where the city was founded, a famous monument “Alyesha” which is the cover page of Murmansk. Then we will visit the Savior-on-Waters Orthodox cathedral, the monument to submarine sailors perished at sea in peaceful time and the monument dedicated to the citizens of Murmansk who heroically defended the city during the WWII.

15.00-16.00 Visit to the first ever nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world “Lenin”.

Transfer to hotel. Accommodation.

Free time.

21.00-00.00 Northern Lights Hunting tour.

Breakfast.

08.30 Departure to the open-air museum and recreation center “Saami Village”. Transfer time - 2 hours.

10.30-13.30 – Visit to the Saami Village: an exciting story about the life of Saami people. We will also have the opportunity to feed reindeers and take pictures with these stunning animals. Then we will play national Saami games and we will ride a sleigh pulled by reindeers.

Lunch at the Saami Village (menu: national Saami fish soup, local herbal drink with local baked bread).

After lunch: Free time to take pictures in national Saami clothes.

13.30-15.30 Transfer back to Murmansk. 

15.30 Arrival in Murmansk. Free time.

21.00-00.00 Northern Lights Hunting tour.

Breakfast.

08.00 Departure to Teriberka – the edge of the world.

Teriberka is a small settlement which is located in the Kolsky district  at the shore of the Barents Sea near the Teriberka river. People have been settled down at this place since 1523 according to some sources. The famous Russian movie “Leviathan” by  A. Zvyagintsev was filmed at this village.

Transfer time is 3 hours. On our way to Teriberka we will make stops at beautiful view points.

11.00-14.00 Program at Teriberka. Visiting a frozen waterfall and the shore of  the Barents Sea – the  inner sea of the Arctic Ocean. Photo stop near the Pomors’ (coast dwellers’) boats cemetery.

Lunch at Teriberka. Transfer back to Murmansk.

19.30 Arrival in Murmansk.

Breakfast.

Transfer to airport (without guide).

 Program includes:

· Accommodation 3 nights.

· Daily breakfasts in the hotel.

· 3 lunches in local restaurants.

· Arrival and departure transfers (arrival transfer with guide / departure transfer without guide).

· Transportation and English-speaking guide service as mentioned in the program.

· Entrance: according to the program.

Prices upon request