Meeting Father Frost

Itinerary: Minsk –Mir – Brest – Belovezhskaya Pushcha – Niesvizh – Minsk | Duration: 7 days/ 6 nights

The Father Frost residence in Belovezhskaya Pushcha
Zubr -Belarus
Museum of Folk Handicrafts and Technologies “Dudutki”
Museum of Folk Handicrafts and Technologies “Dudutki”
Minsk - Belarus
Brest Fortress - Belarus
  • Sightseeing tour of Minsk
  • Mir Castle
  • Sightseeing tour of Brest
  • Brest Fortress, the Museum “Berestye”, the Museum of “Saved Values”
  • The National Park Belovezhskaya Pushcha and Father Frost residence
  • Niesvizh Park and Palace Complex (Nesvizh Palace)
  • Visit to the Museum of Folk Handicrafts and Technologies Dudutki
DAY 1.

Arrival in Minsk. Meeting at the airport

Transfer to the hotel. Check-in at the hotel.

Sightseeing tour of Minsk, including architectural, historical and cultural monuments of the 17th - 20th cents: Independence square, St Simeon and Helena Church (The Red Church), Independence avenue, Victory square, City Hall, St Spirit Cathedral, historic heart of the city - Trinity Suburb and Nemiga street, the National Library.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

DAY 2.

Breakfast.

Departure for Mir.

Visit to Mir Castle. Mir Castle is a unique architectural monument, included into the list of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. The castle combines the traits of roman style and style of the renaissance. Mir castle is also a historical monument, true legend, which used to belong to several aristocratic families: Ilyinichi, Radzivills, Vithghenstein, Svatopolk-Mirskie.

Lunch in a local restaurant (in Mir).

Departure for Brest. Brest is situated in the western part of Belarusian Polessye. The first mentioning about it belongs to 1017. The consolidation of Orthodox and Catholic was proclaimed in Brest at the end of the XVI century in the territory of Rzech Pospolita under supremacy of the Catholic Church.

Arrival in Brest. Check-in at the hotel.

Time at leisure.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

DAY 3.

Breakfast.

Sightseeing tour of Brest. Visit to the Brest Fortress, founded on the 1 of June in 1836. It is also a wonderful architectural complex. The Brest fortress got the world fame during the Great Patriotic war because it took the first attack for itself. The courage and audacity of the fortress soldiers will always be in memory of descendants. The excursion will take you to Brest and Brest citadel. You will hear an impressive story about the courageous  defenders of the Brest citadel, who keep Nazis in June, 1941. Sightseeing tour of Brest and Brest citadel starts with visit to the Brest Fortress Memorial, famous for the unparalleled heroic deed of its defenders in World War II. Later the fortress received the title "Hero-fortress".

Excursion in the Museum "Berestye" archeological open-air museum, which includes old buildings of the 11-13 centuries.

Lunch in a local restaurant.

The tourists will also visit the Museum of "Saved Values". This museum displaying a unique collection of articles confiscated on the border, such as coins, icons, paintings, and etc.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

DAY 4.

Breakfast.

Departure for Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Visit the National Park Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The park is included into the UNESCO List of World Heritage.  It is a unique forestlands of the Europe. The present animal and bird world is very rich and diverse. The bison population of Belovezhskaya Pushcha is the largest in the world. You will visit the Museum of nature, open-air cage with animals and Residence of Father Frost.  In 2009 Reservation celebrates the 600th anniversery.

Lunch at the restaurant (in Belovezhskaya Pushcha)

Visit to the Father Frost residence.

Departure for Brest.

Dinner at the hotel.

DAY 5.

Breakfast.

Departure for Minsk.

On the way visit to the Niesvizh Park and Palace Complex. The Nesvizh Palace, a former residence of Radzivills family (medieval Belarusian magnates) with its beautiful park ensemble and a neighbouring Church of the 16th century designed by Bernardoni, is one of the most impressive sites in Belarus.

Lunch at the restaurant (in Niesvizh).

Arrival in Minsk.

Check-in at the hotel.

Time at leisure.

Dinner at the hotel.

DAY 6.

Breakfast.

Visit to the Museum of Folk Handicrafts and Technologies Dudutki (40 km from Minsk). Dudutki is a unique museum of material culture in Belarus with living national trades. This place can be hardly called a museum-so alive are all the displayed "objects". A magnificent reconstruction of the traditional way of living in Belarusian village that can be not only seen but even touched: in the old-time bakery you can make a loaf by yourself, in the ceramic workshop become a potter or have some training as a blacksmith or miller... And certainly you will never forget the amazing taste of delicious homemade food with real traditional samogon (home made vodka).

Lunch at the restaurant (in Dudutki).

Departure for Minsk.

Time at leisure. Shopping.

Dinner

DAY 7.

Breakfast.

Time at leisure. Shopping.

Departure for the airport (railway station).