Cossack Explorer
Day 1 - Depart USA Overnight transatlantic flight to Berlin.
Day 2 - Arrive Berlin On arrival, you will be met at the airport and transferred to your hotel. This afternoon we enjoy a guided
sightseeing tour of the city highlighting the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate and the Kurfurstendamm. Dinner is at our hotel this evening. (Dinner)
Day 3 - Berlin - Copenhagen (2 nights) We travel north to Rostock and then cruise across the Baltic to Denmark, where we soon arrive in wonderful Copenhagen, the Danish capital. This evening, why not visit the famous Tivoli gardens" (Buffet Breakfast)
Day 4 - Copenhagen sightseeing & at leisure The Little Mermaid, the Renaissance Stock Exchange, the Royal Amalienborg Palace and the Christiansborg Palace all feature on our morning sightseeing tour. The rest of the day is at leisure. (Scandinavian Breakfast)
Day 5 - Copenhagen - Stockholm First we cross the Oresund into Sweden. Next we travel north through lush forests and meadows to the resort of Granna at the head of Lake Vattern. Then northwards to beautiful island-ringed Stockholm, Sweden's capital. (Scandinavian Breakfast)
Day 6 - Stockholm - At Sea This morning's sightseeing tour with a local guide shows us the Royal Palace and City Hall. Stockholm is constructed on a maze of islands and criss-crossed by many bridges, so it is a pleasant city to wander through, which you can do before we board ship for our mini-cruise to Finland. (Breakfast / Dinner)
Day 7 - At Sea - Helsinki An early arrival in Finland's capital allows us time for a guided tour showing us Finlandia Hall, the Senate and Market Squares, broad boulevards and the domed Russian Church. Then free time to shop and sightsee further before checking in to our hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure. (Continental Breakfast)
Day 8 - Helsinki - St. Petersburg (2 nights) Today we drive to the border with Russia, passing the timber centre of Kotka and on through the town of Vyborg. Then we continue across the forests of Karelia to St. Petersburg for our three-day stay. With dinner tonight enjoy some complimentary champagne! (ScandinavianBreakfast / Dinner)
Day 9 - St. Petersburg sightseeing & at leisure Featured on our sightseeing tour this morning are the Tsar's Winter Palace, Nevsky Prospekt, St. Isaac's Cathedral, the Statue of Peter the Great and a visit of the St. Peter and Paul fortress. Afterwards, the remainder of the day is at leisure. You may wish to see the summer Palace of Empress Catherine the Great or maybe visit the residence of Peter the Great in Petrodvorets.(Buffet Breakfast)
Day 10 - St. Petersburg at leisure - Overnight Train to Moscow Today there's time to relax in St. Petersburg. Why not visit one of the greatest Art collections in the world at the Hermitage Museum in the Tsar's Winter Palace" This evening after dinner in a local restaurant, we board our overnight sleeper train to Moscow. (Buffet Breakfast / Dinner)
Day 11 - Arrive Moscow (2 nights) - sightseeing It's an early morning arrival in the Russian capital. Here we have breakfast before our sightseeing tour, which features many outstanding highlights such as Red Square, the Kremlin Walls and St. Basil's domed Cathedral. (Continental Breakfast / Dinner)
Day 12 - Moscow at leisure During your stay, there's plenty of time to perhaps visit the Treasure Chamber of the Tsars or take a trip to nearby Zagorsk - a centre of Russian art and architecture, as well as once being the religious capital of Russia. (Buffet Breakfast)
Day 13 - Moscow - Smolensk - Minsk An early departure takes us via Borodino, site of Napolean's great defeat. We stop for lunch at Smolensk before we cross the border and enter the independent state of Belarus to Minsk. Here an orientation shows us the Leninsky Prospekt and Victory Square. Tonight we enjoy a dinner of traditional cuisine at our hotel. (Buffet Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner)
Day 14 - Minsk - Brest - Warsaw (2 nights) Today's drives takes us via the vast plains of White Russia and the Pripet Marches to the Polish frontier at Brest Litovsk where we stop for lunch. From here we cross the River Vistula before arriving in Warsaw for our two-night stay. (Buffet Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner)
Day 15 - Warsaw sightseeing & at leisure Our morning sightseeing features the Old Town, reconstructed after wartime destruction and the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. This evening after dinner, why not listen to a Chopin piano recital" (Buffet Breakfast)
Day 16 - Warsaw - Berlin Today we travel across the central plains of Poland to Poznan, with its charming City Hall and Gothic churches. Then we continue to the border town of Frankfurt-an-der-Oder and into Germany, where we are soon are back in Berlin. (Buffet Breakfast)
Day 17 - Depart Berlin Bid farewell to Europe as we transfer to the airport for your return flight to the USA. (Buffet Breakfast)
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