Vladivostok Break

Welcome to Vladivostok - the easternmost city of Russia and its largest port on the Pacific Ocean informally known as "Russia’s San Francisco" due to its numerous bays and beautiful bridges. Your driver meets you at the airport and takes you to your centrally located hotel for check-in. The rest of the day is free so you can relax in your cozy room after the flight, dine in one of the local restaurants or start exploring the city center on your own. No meals included.

Following breakfast you meet your guide at the hotel lobby and enjoy an exciting 5-hour sightseeing tour around the most popular city attractions, that includes visits to the Vladivostok Railway Station that is the terminus of the Trans-Siberian railroad, the famous S-56 Submarine Museum and the highly regarded Arseniev Museum where you see interesting exhibits dedicated to the region’s rich flora and fauna as well as the culture and history of the Vladivostok area. During the tour you also enjoy lunch at a local restaurant. Then you have an exciting 3-hour cruise around the world renowned harbor of the Golden Horn that will take you to the fishing harbor, the naval base and the commercial harbor to see numerous ships waiting to unload cargo and enjoy some of the best panoramic views of hilly Vladivostok from Amursky Bay. Later you return to your hotel and have the rest of the day free. In the evening you enjoy dinner at the famous Zuma restaurant. After dinner your driver takes you back to your hotel for overnight. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

This day is free for you to enjoy the most outstanding city attractions on your own, taste traditional dishes and drinks at local restaurants or join one of our carefully prepared optional tours.

Optional tour #1: Visit to Safari Park This tour takes you to the famous Safari Park situated 60 km from Vladivostok city. Founded as a reserve for injured and ill wild animals to keep them safe, today this park provides a unique opportunity to see diverse flora and fauna of the region in close to wild nature conditions. This park is home to over 30 kinds of birds, plant-eating animals and predators, including the Siberian tiger that inhabits Siberia, wild boar, brown and black bear, wolf, fox and other wild animals. Here visitors may not only watch wild animals in their natural habitat, but even feed and touch some of them! Optional tour #2: Russky Island tour The tour starts with crossing two enormous bridges across the Golden Horn Bay and Eastern Bosporus strait, the latter of which would be a largest cable-stayed bridge upon its completion. Then you enjoy a guided tour around the island to see its main attractions, including the large international business center, the Far Eastern University's campus and Oceanarium. During the tour you also visit some view points from where you can see Primorye shores with fantastic hills, relict forests, beaches with picturesque coastal landscapes, and explore the Voroshilovskaya Battery situated on the territory of an actual military base at Russky Island. Note: Voroshilovskaya Battery is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Optional tour #3: Dacha tour This exciting tour invites you to take a trip through Vladivostok’s suburbs to a typical dacha community to visit a real “dacha” house and get an interesting insight into this aspect of Russian countryside life. Originally developed in the Soviet period as a means to increase local food production, “dachas” are weekend cottages or summer cabins, which supply garden fruit and vegetables and a perfect escape from the frenzy of a big city life. Optional tour #4: Beer Factory tour with beer tasting This is a guide trip by a private car 35 km north of center of Vladivostok to a local beer factory to explore how local beer is produced and enjoy beer tasting. At the end of the tour you will also get a small souvenir from the factory - a bottle of beer! Optional tour #5: Visit to the National park "Land of Leopard" Today your driver transfers you 130 km east of Vladivostok to the National Park "Land of the Leopard" that protects critically endangered Siberian (Amur) tigers and the world’s rarest big cat - the Far Eastern (Amur) leopard. During the tour along the path of Leopard, you’ll get acquainted with the life of leopard and the modern methods of animals’ registration such as tracking and using of trail camera. If you are lucky enough you can watch tracks of wild animals. After the excursion we’ll have a lunch at the roadside cafe.

Breakfast is included.

This is the final day of your amazing Vladivostok tour! Following breakfast you check out from your hotel and your driver takes you to the airport for your flight back home. We wish you a safe flight and hope to work on your future trips! Breakfast is included.