Russia

Assemble at Cochin International Airport. After Boarding, Emigration and customs departure to St. Petersburg via Hub city. Welcome to St. Petersburg, Russia’s most beautiful city! After emigration & customs, Travelust representative will transfer us to hotel. After lunch, we proceed to visit Hermitage Museum; the largest and oldest museums in the world, housed in the Winter Palace founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Overnight stay at Hotel in St. Petersburg.

City Sightseeing tour will include visit to Peter and Paul Fortress (outside). During the tour you will see the main highlights of Saint- Petersburg such as the Winter Palace, Kazan Cathedral, the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Bronze Horseman, Smolny Cathedral, the State Russian Museum, as well as numerous canals and rivers and beautiful bridges across them. The church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, St. Issac’s cathedral, the Mariinsky Theater, The Hermitage, the Winter Palace, the Palace Square, the spit of Vasilievskiy Island, The Bronze Horseman Statue, Peter’s Log Cabin, Cruiser Aurora Smolny Palace, The Nevsky Prospect, the Square of Arts and More. Later we take you to the Russian Folk Show at Nikolaevsky Palace with Cocktail Party. The show consists in two parts of 45 minutes each and lasts one and a half hours in total. In the intermission, refreshments will be served. Enjoy a buffet table of fruit, canapés with red caviar, ham, Russian-style Salami, cheeses, Russian vodka, champagne, red wine, mineral water, juice and soft drinks. During the interval, classical quartet will perform alongside with the dancers in crinolines. Overnight at Hotel in St. Petersburg.

After breakfast meet your guide start city tour, visit Grand Palace and Park (Peterhof). One-way you will enjoy Hydrofoil experience to reach the Palace and return by coach to city. Enjoy Cruise on river Neva. After lunch enjoy the canal cruise of St. Petersburg. Cruise along the canals give a closer view of the city's insides than the ferries that go up and down the Neva River. Today we depart for the romantic Tour to Peterhof - one of the most prominent suburbs of Petersburg situated on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. The Palace-ensemble along with the city center is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Overnight at Hotel in St. Petersburg

After breakfast, check out the hotel and transfer you to take the fantastic Sapsan which is a 1,520 mm gauge high speed train in Russia. The design is part of the Siemens Velaro family. The trains started regular service on the Moscow — Saint Petersburg Railway in December 2009 at a maximum speed of 250 km/h. The total duration of the journey will be 4 hours. Arrive Moscow and transfer to hotel for check in. Welcome to Moscow, the capital and most populous city of the Russian Federation, with 12.2 million residents. In the evening you will transfer to Moscow Metro underground Tour, fourth-largest in the world and largest outside of Asia in terms of passenger numbers and the busiest in Europe. Walk through the old Arbat Street – one of the oldest streets of Moscow is an approximately one-kilometer long pedestrian street in the historical centre of Moscow. Overnight at Hotel in Moscow.

Today we will visit the famous Red Square and go inside St. Basil’s Cathedral, built by Ivan the Terrible in the 15th Century and do the Excursion to Kremlin with Armoury chamber. The Kremlin is located on a hill washed from one side by the Moscow River and from the other by its inflow – the Neglinnaya River. Visit the Lenin Mausoleum where the Lenin’s Body is embalmed and preserved, Moscow Kremlin Complex Alexander Garden, Bolshoi Theater etc. After lunch visit Vorobyevi Hills also called Sparrow hills, which is situated in the right bank of the Moskva river and one of the highest points in Moscow. The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. Evening we take you to Moscow State Circus. It is used for a variety of circuses. Most commonly, it refers to one of the two circuses in Moscow, the old circus, featuring animal acts and the new circus, featuring trapeze and acrobatics. Overnight at Hotel in Moscow.

Breakfast at the hotel. We depart for Sergiyev Posad, named for saint Sergii Radonez who founded a small wooden temple deep in the Russian Forest. Evening transfer to Airport for your flight to India, You will leave Russia with a lifetime of memories.