FIT MOLDOVA & UCRAINE

Day 1 ARRIVING DAY

Meeting the guests at the Chisinau International Airport. Check in at the hotel. Free time.

• Chisinau City tour includes visiting the most important cultural & tourist points of interest in the capital of Moldova (no entry to museums)

Return to the hotel & spend late afternoon at the hotel. Dine at the restaurant by hotel.

Day 2 TRANSDNIESTRIA & CASTLE MIMI

In the morning, after breakfast, check-out & passport required. We go to Transdniestria, head to the South East of Moldova.

• Sturgeon farm Aquatir
• Lunch in the restaurant “Kumanek” with Soviet period dishes
• Tiraspol City tour In Tiraspol, we will meet with the “real” Soviet period
• KVINT factory with cognac tasting

Depature to village Bulboaca. 

• Dinner at Castle MIMI with wine tasting

Back to Chisinau. Free time. 

Day 3 OLD ORHEI & MILESTII MICI & CRICOVA WINERIES

Breakfast in the hotel.  After breakfast departure to Milestii Mici Winery.

• Milestii Mici

The largest underground wine cellar in Moldova. It has more than 200 km of limestone tunnels, 55 km of which are used for storing wine. The tunnels are named after the wines kept there.

Departure to Old Orhei.

• Old Orhei cave monastery

Is an archaeological site, a historical settlement area, a cultural and a landscape reserve. The area has been inhabited since the Stone Age and, with the combination of late medieval excavations, an Orthodox cave monastery founded at the end of the 17th century and the special landscape in the river valley of the River Rau, is the most famous sight of the country. 

•  Lunch with traditional dishes & home- made wine

Departure to Cricova Winery. 

• Cricova Winery

Represents a unique underground city well-known all over the world by its huge labyrinths, & especially by its excellent wines. Cellars of Cricova are the house of a remarkable collection of wines - The National Oenotec.  Guests will be taken into the Cricova wine tunnels by small electric trains. Winery tour & wine tasting.

Back to Chisinau. Free time. 

Day 4 ODESSA

After breakfast, transfer to rail station.  Departure to Odessa. Arrival to Odessa. Meet and greet at the train station.

• City-tour around Odessa
• Lunch at the restaurant

Check in at the hotel.

We recommend you to take an excursion “Odessky Privoz and Catacombs. Catacombs - are the former underground quarries, from which the rock-shell was extracted - the main building material of ancient Odessa. Free time at the city. Dinner in local restaurant. 

We recommend to visit evening show at the Opera House (for extra fee). 

Overnight.

Day 5 BELGOROD & SHABO WINERY

Breakfast at the hotel.

• Belgorod - Dniester fortress 

During this trip you will be overwhelmed with positive impressions. First, we will take a road by the sea, across the firth, to the town Belgorod Dnestrovsky, where we will visit fortress Akkerman. The medieval fortress "Akkerman" on the banks of the Dniester firth, is one of the largest and best preserved in Ukraine.

• Lunch, excursion and wine tasting at the Center of ”Culture and Wine of Shabo"

"Life is too short to drink bad wine" - French proverb. Therefore, we will visit the Wine Culture Center in Shabo to drink some good wine! Shabo is located on the same latitude as Provence, Bordeaux and famous Swiss vineyards. And Shabo itself was founded by the Swiss.

Return to Odessa.  Free time in the city. Dinner in local restaurant. 

Overnight at the hotel.

Day 6 LEAVE MOLDOVA

Breakfast at the hotel; 

After breakfast check-out departure to the Airport. On the way to the Airport short visit of the wooden church “Assumption of Mary”.