«Ancient fortress on the Volga»

Draft tour 5 days / 4 nights

from 15 956 c

265.22 €

272.70 $

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Tour program

DAY 1
Transfer
	Arrival to Kazan. Meeting with a representative of the Leader Kazan tour operator at the airport.
	Arrival to the hotel. Check-In (from 14:00). Leisure time.

DAY 2
Coach hire and tour guide 6,5 hours
from 07:00	Hotel breakfast.
10:00	Meeting with the tour guide at the hotel lobby. Departure for the sightseeing tour.
	Bus and walking sightseeing “Legends and Mysteries of the Millennium-old Kazan” by bus. 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 Tugan Avylym (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.
12:30	Time for prayer and rest in a mosque of the city.
13:00	Lunch in a restaurant (HALAL)
OPTION (EXTRA FEE)	Folklore program «Yakyn Duslar» will immerse you in the world of the ancient culture of the Tatar people. Each people of the world is unique, and its soul, hidden in spiritual creativity — folklore, is unique. All tourists have the opportunity from the first minute of their stay in Kazan to touch the age-old culture of the Tatar people.
14:30	Museum of Islamic Culture. The exposition of the museum is devoted to the Islamic civilization, the peculiarities of its development in the Middle Volga region, reveals its place and role in the culture of the Tatar people. Here are presented the themes of the history of religion, prophets, primary sources and the foundations of Islam. The complex of objects for the prayer — a prayer mat, a compass for finding a direction to Mecca, a rosary, a mock-up of the Kaaba
15:30	A walking tour “White-stone Fortress”. 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. The white-stone Kremlin is 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. Inside the fortress, there is one of the symbols of Kazan – the famous “leaning” tower of Tsarina Suyumbike.
16:30	Return to the hotel. Leisure time.
OPTION (EXTRA FEE)	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.

DAY 3
Coach and guide for 11 hours
from 07:00	Hotel breakfast.
09:30	Meeting with the tour guide at the hotel lobby. Departure for the sightseeing tour.
12:30	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 – Ak Mechet (the White Mosque).
13:00	Leisure time for prayers and recreation in the city`s Mosque.
13:30	Lunch in a city`s restaurant according to national Halal standards.
14:30	A walking sightseeing tour “Mecca of the North” in the town of Bolgar. 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 Sign built to commemorate the official adoption of Islam by the ancient Bolgars, where the world-biggest printed Quran is kept.
17:30	Departure to Kazan.
20:30	Arrival to the hotel. Leisure time.

DAY 4
Coach hire and tour guide for 7 hours
from 07:00	Breakfast at the hotel.
09:00	Meeting with the tour guide at the hotel lobby. Departure for the sightseeing program.
	Observation of the «Universal Temple» in the old Moscow Highway. In 1994, a construction of a by all means unusual architectural structure – the Universal Temple – began in Kazan. It is a unique building that combines features of Catholic, Orthodox, and Buddhist temples, a Mosque, and a Synagogue. The Temple was not designed by its creator Ildar Khanov as a religious center but as a site combining a museum, a concert hall and an exhibition gallery. The Universal Temple is an architectural symbolic symbiosis of religions, civilizations and cultures.
10:30	A sighseeing tour “My home side!”. If you are tired of the bustle of the city, and you have a desire to feel the nature, hear the birds singing, drink tea from different herbs, then we will leave the city for the land of vast expanses and pristine springs. Here guests can plunge for a moment in the past, to see the estate of the Tatar peasant who lived in the late XIX — early XX centuries: grip, poker, frying pan, bread shovel. They will tell you about a samovar and a cauldron, show how to heat a stove, use a gurney, a coal iron. And everyone will be treated with hot potatoes cooked in a cast iron from a real Tatar stove and try Tatar tea with national sweets!
12:30	Departure for Kazan.
	Observation of the Innopolis. Innopolis is a new city in Russia, located in the Republic of Tatarstan. The economy of the city is based on high-tech industries. Innopolis has created a unique urban environment with modern residential infrastructure, ecology, safe environment, wide opportunities for education and professional development. The University of Innopolis is the intellectual nucleus of the new city and a new Russian university that prepares high-level IT specialists, borrowing the experience of the best universities in the world.
13:00	Lunch in the city restaurant. (HALAL).
	Master class of “Secrets of the Tatar Cuisine”. The culinary traditions of the Tatar cuisine shaped up for many centuries. Some of the best cooks will share their secrets of preparing the most popular Tatar meals such as сhak-chak, echpochmak, vak belash, gubadia. During the master class each tourist may impress a skilled cook and participate in the preparation of the national meals.
16:00	Arrival to the hotel. Leisure time.

DAY 5
Coach hire and tour guide for 7,5 hours
from 07:00	Hotel breakfast.
10:00	Check-Out. Meeting with the tour guide at the hotel lobby. Departure for the sightseeing tour with luggage.
10:30	Visit the Muslim Training and Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and the Yardam Mosque. In 2013, a unique Yardam mosque was opened in Kazan, which has no analogues in Russia and the Near Abroad. It represents a whole complex, which included a prayer hall, a hostel for non-residents, a canteen, computer classes, a library, and a mini-typography. Here, people with disabilities who need physical and spiritual rehabilitation are trained in writing and reading in the Louis Braille system, computer literacy, various crafts and professions, and they take adaptation courses on the ground.
11:30	Time for prayer and rest in a mosque of the city.
12:00	Tranfser to the restaurant.
12:30	Lunch in a restaurant (HALAL).
14:00	Excursion «Islam, Muslims, mosques». The Old-Tatar Sloboda is the historical district of Kazan located on the right bank of the Lower Kaban Lake, where the loyal Kazanians were relocated in the 16th century after the conquest of the city by Ivan the Terrible. A tour of the Old-Tatar Sloboda is an opportunity to plunge into Kazan in the 18-19th centuries, where without exaggeration each house is associated with outstanding names for Tatar history and culture. In the 18th century, prominent figures of the Tatar people lived in Sloboda: the intelligentsia, the clergy, merchants and industrialists. You will know history of the origin of the Old-Tatar settlement and the overview show of the Blue Mosque (Fourth Sobornaya), the Burnaev Mosque (Third Cathedral). Visiting the most beautiful pre-revolutionary mosque of the city «Azimovskaya» and the First Cathedral Mosque «Al Mardjani».
15:45	Visiting the shopping center «Vostochny» or the supermarket of home food «Bakhetle Halal».
16:30	Transfer to the airport.
17:30	End of the tour.

English-speaking tour guide	Tour cost for 5 days / 4 nights
	Extra fee for SGL use	10+1	15+1	20+1	25+1	30+1	35+1	40+1
	Per person
Without hotel accommodation	нет	16 500 ₽	16 400 ₽	14 122 ₽	12 644 ₽	11 656 ₽	11 122 ₽	10 711 ₽
*Amaks* *Safar* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	22 122 ₽	21 844 ₽	19 489 ₽	17 956 ₽	16 933 ₽	16 378 ₽	15 956 ₽
*Crystal* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	22 856 ₽	22 556 ₽	20 189 ₽	18 644 ₽	17 622 ₽	17 067 ₽	16 633 ₽
*Davydov* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 200 ₽	23 100 ₽	22 800 ₽	20 422 ₽	18 878 ₽	17 856 ₽	17 289 ₽	16 867 ₽
*Park hotel* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 300 ₽	23 344 ₽	23 033 ₽	20 656 ₽	19 111 ₽	18 089 ₽	17 522 ₽	17 089 ₽
*Ibis* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 500 ₽	23 344 ₽	23 033 ₽	20 656 ₽	19 111 ₽	18 089 ₽	17 522 ₽	17 089 ₽
*Relita* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 400 ₽	23 833 ₽	23 511 ₽	21 122 ₽	19 578 ₽	18 544 ₽	17 978 ₽	17 544 ₽
*Suleiman Palace* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	24 322 ₽	23 978 ₽	21 589 ₽	20 033 ₽	19 000 ₽	18 433 ₽	18 000 ₽
*Bilyar Palace* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 400 ₽	24 811 ₽	24 456 ₽	22 056 ₽	20 500 ₽	19 467 ₽	18 889 ₽	18 456 ₽
*Korston Tower* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 600 ₽	25 300 ₽	24 933 ₽	22 522 ₽	20 956 ₽	19 922 ₽	19 344 ₽	18 911 ₽
*Nogai* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 600 ₽	25 300 ₽	24 933 ₽	22 522 ₽	20 956 ₽	19 922 ₽	19 344 ₽	18 911 ₽
*Park Inn* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	2 250 ₽	31 411 ₽	30 856 ₽	28 356 ₽	26 733 ₽	25 667 ₽	25 067 ₽	24 611 ₽
*Mirage* 5* (Buffet breakfast)	2 100 ₽	32 144 ₽	31 567 ₽	29 056 ₽	27 433 ₽	26 356 ₽	25 744 ₽	25 289 ₽
*Marriott* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	2 550 ₽	33 856 ₽	33 222 ₽	30 689 ₽	29 044 ₽	27 956 ₽	27 344 ₽	26 889 ₽
*Hilton* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	3 500 ₽	38 744 ₽	37 967 ₽	35 356 ₽	33 667 ₽	32 556 ₽	31 922 ₽	31 444 ₽
*Kazan Palace* 5* (Buffet breakfast)	4 850 ₽	49 500 ₽	48 400 ₽	45 622 ₽	43 844 ₽	42 656 ₽	41 978 ₽	41 467 ₽

French-/German-speaking guide	Tour cost for 5 days / 4 nights
	Extra fee for SGL use	10+1	15+1	20+1	25+1	30+1	35+1	40+1
	Per person
Without hotel accommodation	нет	16 867 ₽	16 644 ₽	14 300 ₽	12 800 ₽	11 778 ₽	11 222 ₽	10 811 ₽
*Amaks* *Safar* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	22 489 ₽	22 089 ₽	19 667 ₽	18 111 ₽	17 056 ₽	16 478 ₽	16 056 ₽
*Crystal* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	23 222 ₽	22 800 ₽	20 367 ₽	18 800 ₽	17 744 ₽	17 167 ₽	16 733 ₽
*Davydov* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 200 ₽	23 467 ₽	23 044 ₽	20 600 ₽	19 033 ₽	17 978 ₽	17 389 ₽	16 967 ₽
*Park hotel* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 300 ₽	23 711 ₽	23 278 ₽	20 833 ₽	19 267 ₽	18 211 ₽	17 622 ₽	17 189 ₽
*Ibis* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 500 ₽	23 711 ₽	23 278 ₽	20 833 ₽	19 267 ₽	18 211 ₽	17 622 ₽	17 189 ₽
*Relita* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 400 ₽	24 200 ₽	23 756 ₽	21 300 ₽	19 733 ₽	18 667 ₽	18 078 ₽	17 644 ₽
*Suleiman Palace* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	24 689 ₽	24 222 ₽	21 767 ₽	20 189 ₽	19 122 ₽	18 533 ₽	18 100 ₽
*Bilyar Palace* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 400 ₽	25 178 ₽	24 700 ₽	22 233 ₽	20 656 ₽	19 589 ₽	18 989 ₽	18 556 ₽
*Korston Tower* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 600 ₽	25 667 ₽	25 178 ₽	22 700 ₽	21 111 ₽	20 044 ₽	19 444 ₽	19 011 ₽
*Nogai* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 600 ₽	25 667 ₽	25 178 ₽	22 700 ₽	21 111 ₽	20 044 ₽	19 444 ₽	19 011 ₽
*Park Inn* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	2 250 ₽	31 778 ₽	31 100 ₽	28 533 ₽	26 889 ₽	25 789 ₽	25 167 ₽	24 711 ₽
*Mirage* 5* (Buffet breakfast)	2 100 ₽	32 511 ₽	31 811 ₽	29 233 ₽	27 589 ₽	26 478 ₽	25 844 ₽	25 389 ₽
*Marriott* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	2 550 ₽	34 222 ₽	33 467 ₽	30 867 ₽	29 200 ₽	28 078 ₽	27 444 ₽	26 989 ₽
*Hilton* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	3 500 ₽	39 111 ₽	38 211 ₽	35 533 ₽	33 822 ₽	32 678 ₽	32 022 ₽	31 544 ₽
*Kazan Palace* 5* (Buffet breakfast)	4 850 ₽	49 867 ₽	48 644 ₽	45 800 ₽	44 000 ₽	42 778 ₽	42 078 ₽	41 567 ₽

Italian-/Spanish-speaking guide	Tour cost for 5 days / 4 nights
	Extra fee for SGL use	10+1	15+1	20+1	25+1	30+1	35+1	40+1
	Per person
Without hotel accommodation	нет	17 600 ₽	17 133 ₽	14 667 ₽	13 089 ₽	12 022 ₽	11 433 ₽	10 989 ₽
*Amaks* *Safar* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	23 222 ₽	22 578 ₽	20 033 ₽	18 400 ₽	17 300 ₽	16 689 ₽	16 233 ₽
*Crystal* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	23 956 ₽	23 289 ₽	20 733 ₽	19 089 ₽	17 989 ₽	17 378 ₽	16 911 ₽
*Davydov* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 200 ₽	24 200 ₽	23 533 ₽	20 967 ₽	19 322 ₽	18 222 ₽	17 600 ₽	17 144 ₽
*Park hotel* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 300 ₽	24 444 ₽	23 767 ₽	21 200 ₽	19 556 ₽	18 456 ₽	17 833 ₽	17 367 ₽
*Ibis* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 500 ₽	24 444 ₽	23 767 ₽	21 200 ₽	19 556 ₽	18 456 ₽	17 833 ₽	17 367 ₽
*Relita* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 400 ₽	24 933 ₽	24 244 ₽	21 667 ₽	20 022 ₽	18 911 ₽	18 289 ₽	17 822 ₽
*Suleiman Palace* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	25 422 ₽	24 711 ₽	22 133 ₽	20 478 ₽	19 367 ₽	18 744 ₽	18 278 ₽
*Bilyar Palace* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 400 ₽	25 911 ₽	25 189 ₽	22 600 ₽	20 944 ₽	19 833 ₽	19 200 ₽	18 733 ₽
*Korston Tower* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 600 ₽	26 400 ₽	25 667 ₽	23 067 ₽	21 400 ₽	20 289 ₽	19 656 ₽	19 189 ₽
*Nogai* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 600 ₽	26 400 ₽	25 667 ₽	23 067 ₽	21 400 ₽	20 289 ₽	19 656 ₽	19 189 ₽
*Park Inn* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	2 250 ₽	32 511 ₽	31 589 ₽	28 900 ₽	27 178 ₽	26 033 ₽	25 378 ₽	24 889 ₽
*Mirage* 5* (Buffet breakfast)	2 100 ₽	33 244 ₽	32 300 ₽	29 600 ₽	27 878 ₽	26 722 ₽	26 056 ₽	25 567 ₽
*Marriott* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	2 550 ₽	34 956 ₽	33 956 ₽	31 233 ₽	29 489 ₽	28 322 ₽	27 656 ₽	27 167 ₽
*Hilton* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	3 500 ₽	39 844 ₽	38 700 ₽	35 900 ₽	34 111 ₽	32 922 ₽	32 233 ₽	31 722 ₽
*Kazan Palace* 5* (Buffet breakfast)	4 850 ₽	50 600 ₽	49 133 ₽	46 167 ₽	44 289 ₽	43 022 ₽	42 289 ₽	41 744 ₽

Chinese-/Arabian-/Turkish-speaking guide	Tour cost for 5 days / 4 nights
	Extra fee for SGL use	10+1	15+1	20+1	25+1	30+1	35+1	40+1
	Per person
Without hotel accommodation	нет	16 500 ₽	15 860 ₽	13 530 ₽	12 040 ₽	11 040 ₽	11 644 ₽	10 989 ₽
*Amaks* *Safar* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	21 560 ₽	20 760 ₽	18 360 ₽	16 820 ₽	15 790 ₽	16 900 ₽	16 233 ₽
*Crystal* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	22 220 ₽	21 400 ₽	18 990 ₽	17 440 ₽	16 410 ₽	17 589 ₽	16 911 ₽
*Davydov* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 200 ₽	22 440 ₽	21 620 ₽	19 200 ₽	17 650 ₽	16 620 ₽	17 811 ₽	17 144 ₽
*Park hotel* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 300 ₽	22 660 ₽	21 830 ₽	19 410 ₽	17 860 ₽	16 830 ₽	18 044 ₽	17 367 ₽
*Ibis* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 500 ₽	22 660 ₽	21 830 ₽	19 410 ₽	17 860 ₽	16 830 ₽	18 044 ₽	17 367 ₽
*Relita* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 400 ₽	23 100 ₽	22 260 ₽	19 830 ₽	18 280 ₽	17 240 ₽	18 500 ₽	17 822 ₽
*Suleiman Palace* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 100 ₽	23 540 ₽	22 680 ₽	20 250 ₽	18 690 ₽	17 650 ₽	18 956 ₽	18 278 ₽
*Bilyar Palace* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 400 ₽	23 980 ₽	23 110 ₽	20 670 ₽	19 110 ₽	18 070 ₽	19 411 ₽	18 733 ₽
*Korston Tower* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	1 600 ₽	24 420 ₽	23 540 ₽	21 090 ₽	19 520 ₽	18 480 ₽	19 867 ₽	19 189 ₽
*Nogai* 3* (Buffet breakfast)	1 600 ₽	24 420 ₽	23 540 ₽	21 090 ₽	19 520 ₽	18 480 ₽	19 867 ₽	19 189 ₽
*Park Inn* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	2 250 ₽	29 920 ₽	28 870 ₽	26 340 ₽	24 720 ₽	23 650 ₽	25 589 ₽	24 889 ₽
*Mirage* 5* (Buffet breakfast)	2 100 ₽	30 580 ₽	29 510 ₽	26 970 ₽	25 350 ₽	24 270 ₽	26 267 ₽	25 567 ₽
*Marriott* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	2 550 ₽	32 120 ₽	31 000 ₽	28 440 ₽	26 800 ₽	25 710 ₽	27 867 ₽	27 167 ₽
*Hilton* 4* (Buffet breakfast)	3 500 ₽	36 520 ₽	35 270 ₽	32 640 ₽	30 960 ₽	29 850 ₽	32 444 ₽	31 722 ₽
*Kazan Palace* 5* (Buffet breakfast)	4 850 ₽	46 200 ₽	44 660 ₽	41 880 ₽	40 120 ₽	38 940 ₽	42 500 ₽	41 744 ₽

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The price of the sightseeing tour includes:

— Agent commission 0% (net rates)

— Hotel accommodation

— Coach hire

— Individual radio guides (earphones)

— Admission tickets to sites

— Tour guide service

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— Prices are provided for double accommodation in a hotel, third place in the room is an extra bed. For single occupancy — additional charge for each night (indicated in the price table).
— Groups are not more 12 people are served with the 19-seater minibus Mercedes Sprinter. A big bus is included for 13 people in a group and more as a default.

— Tour time corrections – for free.
— The meeting of tourists takes place at the train carriage or at the airport terminal.
— The tour operator has the right to change the time and procedure for providing excursions, as well as change the objects of visits to equivalent ones, without changing the general tour program.
— All the attended sites not marked as “OPTION (EXTRA FEE)” are included in the price of the tour.

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