One day trip

Located in the town of Uman, the famous Sofiyivka arboretum was laid out at the end of the 18th century. Its beautiful scenery reveals some old Greek myths. The park is the sample of harmonious combination of people’s talent and natural beauty. The Sofiyivka park was laid out by Stanislaw Potocki for his beloved wife Sophia.

The Alexandria arboretum is a masterpiece of landscape architecture on the banks of the RosRiver, the museum of marble sculptures where one can see among others Three Sleeping Cupids statue.

The Kachanivka Park spreads over an area of 570 hectares (1407 acres) which makes it the biggest park in Ukraine and one of the biggest in Europe. 130 hectares of this area are ponds. There are several architectural landmarks of considerable architectural and historical value on the estate. There are bridges, earthworks, gazebos added to the overall architectural set-up of the park. Dozens of species of trees, hundreds of species of other plants, lanes and paths meandering through the Park, make it a place of paradisiacal beauty.

Baturyn is in Chernihiv oblast on the bank of the Seim river. Once it was a powerfull fortress, later – a town that exercised Magdeburg Law rights. At present the architectural and historical ensemble of Baturyn is being restored on the initiative of the President of Ukraine.

In Middle Ages Chernigov was the capital of the ancient principality. It was known as the former rival of Kiev. Chernigov is a cozy, poetic town. There is a lot of old architecture in Chernigov. Chernigov is about 14 centuries old town.

In Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky there is the biggest number of museums comparing to any of Ukrainian towns. Totally there are 27 museums there meaning that there is almost a museum on every thousand of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky inhabitants! We have chosen for your visit the best of the best from these 27 museums. And you know the best open air museum in Ukraine is located here!

Zhytomyr is famous for Ukraine’s only museum of space aeronautics. It’s a birthplace of the chief designer of space aircraft – Sergey Korolyov. Zhytomyr’s art gallery is also worth seeing.

This is an outing to the towns of Trypillya and Rzhyshchev. The ascent on the legendary Divych Hill, the visit of archaeological museums, the park of sculptures. All that will reveal you a mysterious world of the pre-historic civilization.

This oldest house in Kiev region, which is over 300 years old, is the live ethnographic Museum. It’s alive because it is not just museum exposition, but a house where a real Ukrainian family lives and welcomes guests. The owners of this unusual isolated homestead meet guests in national costumes, with bread and salt, treat them to food made by hand without using modern kitchen devices. You get into atmosphere of real Ukrainian country mode of life, to be more exact, the mode of life of Poleshchuki – people, who live in Ukrainian Polesye in the North of Ukraine. That’s the way Ukrainians lived in isolated homesteads half a century ago. In Mr. Savka`s hut you can immerge into real, not cinema-affected life of an old Polesye village.

This is a grand project. No one dared to reproduce ancient Kiev, the capital of the biggest country of medieval Europe, till construction of “Kievan Rus” Park was started to the South of Ukrainian capital. The Park is supposed to reproduce the city in the way it looked in the period of its golden age. Celebrations, knight tournaments, historic reconstructions, master – classes and tasting are conducted in the park almost all year round. We invite you to visit this remarkable place and feel as if you were in the bygone epoch.

Eventually our history was created by horses and human beings. Horses and human beings worked the land, built houses and sold things, traveled and fought. That was the mode of life for thousands of years. As the result of technological advances a horse - a man tandem has been separated only recently. And almost immediately it has been clear that people driving cars, being squeezed in public transport or sandwiched within the walls of their offices long for horses as their proven, reliable partners and friends.

The area of the largest in Ukraine Aqua Park is 20, 5 square kilometers big area. There is always tropical temperature in the aqua park.

Strategic Missiles Troops Museum is the unique museum of world level. Nothing of the kind exists neither in Europe nor in the countries of the former USSR.

We invite you to visit the surrounding Kiev fortresses. Once there were big and mighty towns located around Kiev. All of them has been glorified in history of Kievan Rus. They are Vyshgorod, Belogorodka (Belgorod) and Vasylkiv.

If you make your trip to Yasnogorodka (Yasnogorodka is a little village founded in the 16th century) you will learn about Byelgorod kissel (kissel is a kind of starchy jelly), you will see many ostriches starting with younglings in the incubator and ending with big ostriches.

The original name of the town was Boguslavl. The town was founded more than a thousand years ago. Boguslav is located in the luxuriant forests. River Ros flows there rapidly through its rocky banks. Boguslav is situated in a distance of 125 km from Kiev. The town is famous ... by two Maries and one Ivan. 

There you can find 50 species of tropical plants. They are bananas, lemons, pineapples, tangerines, pomegranates and papayas. You can find even such rare fruit as naranjilla. Naranjilla is often called water of gods. The tastes of pineapple, strawberry, lemon and mandarin are combineв in this fruit juice. All this and that can seen in the large "thermos" style hothouse in village of Rozhny in Kiev region.

During the tour we will visit the native area of Ukrainian genius. The villages of Moryntsi, Kyrylivka and Budysche are considered a "golden horseshoe" of Shevchenko's native area. Taras Shevchenko strolled there a lot as a child. Many of those sites were painted by Shevchenko in his works.

On the way to Lubny you will stop in the old town Pyryatyn. Then you will see the church of the 17th century, the museum of local lore in Lubny during sightseeing. This trip also includes visiting of the Mhar monastery. At your discretion we can stop at the village of Biyivtsi – a birthplace of Vasyl Symonenko, the Ukrainian poet of the 20th century

 "The Battle for the Dnieper in 1943" museum is really an outstanding military-historical museum. It is located to the north of Kiev in the village of Novy Petrivtsi. This is the site of the former Lyutezh bridgehead.

Kiev is the most ancient center of Slavonic culture. There the beauty of nature is combined with the creative ability of human beings harmoniously... If you visit Kiev for the first time you will make sure yourself quickly that all enthusiastic reviews about our city are more than just the words. There is its special story about every street in This City. You hear the stories and you feel the time stopping.

Cossacks’ movement was founded in those places over the Dnieper River. Chigirin is located there. It was the first capital of Cossacks. Chigirin was the capital of Bogdan Khmelnitsky’s state. The quiet town called Subbotov is located there too. The estate and the grave of the great leader of Ukraine Bogdan Khmelnitsky is situated there. Kholodny Yar is one of the most unique landscapes in Ukraine. There are many historical and cultural sites there. Probably this is the site where a giant meteorite fell. The history of Kholodny Yar area is full of historical mysteries, dramas and tragedies.

 The Prime excursion bureau invites you to go to the Sorochyntsi Fair with us. From time immemorial when peasants at the end of summer had a few free days, generous Poltava soil used to become the place where joyous fairs were held. And although the Sorochyntsi Fair was not the biggest but it undoubtedly became the most famous owing to N.Gogol , the world known writer who described it so skillfully .

Zakrevsky’s dynasty Manor Complex is located in the small village of Berezova Rudka, Piryatinsk district, Poltava region one and a half hundred kilometers east from Kiev. Many talented and famous people were descended from that family. Gregory Zakrevsky decided to found his estate there. Zakrevsky’s estate was known as a place of noble assembly too. The palace was built there in 1838. The visitors are still affected with its beauty and size.

Christmas Toys Factory is located in Klavdievo near Kiev. It used to be one of only three such factories in the former Soviet Union and the only one in Ukraine. Here we see the way a fairy tale, joy and Christmas mood can be created. Practically all factory products are exported all over the world because of their high quality. But our tourists will be able to use their chance too...

You are going to visit the "ghost town" situated in the zone of the largest nuclear disaster in the history of the modern humanity. It is your chance to feel yourself a character of some computer game. The "Zone" attracts and repels. You will see the "Red Forest", abandoned villages where all houses were buried in the ground and the ghost town of Pripyat fenced with barbed wire – life stopped there in 1986.