Solovki 4 Days/3 Nights

Adult ₽ 18 500
4 days / 3 nights
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Kem – Solovki Kremlin – Mount Sekirnaya – Botanical garden – Bolshaya Muksalma Island

7% discount for 2+ persons in booking!

Tour dates: Sunday-Wednesday

July: 14-17.07, 21-24.07, 28-31.07;
August: 4-7.08, 11-14.08, 18-21.08, 25-28.08;
September: 1-4.09, daily in September upon request!!!

Tour program:

Day 1:
White Sea – Solovki Kremlin – labyrinths of the White Sea – dancing birches

Meeting near the railway station in Kem.
Breakfast at the hotel's cafe.
08:00 am Onboarding. Voyage in the White Sea, 2 hrs.

  • Sightseeing tour around Solovki Kremlin (2.5 hrs).

Lunch at a cafe on the island (paid extra).

Accommodation in the hotel on Solovki.

  • Promenade along the picturesque shore of the White Sea (1.5 hrs), where you will see the "dancing" Solovki birches and "labyrinths", cultural monuments of prehistoric civilizations.
  • Visiting Solovki Maritime Museum on your own (1.5 hrs) with the exhibition of real wooden ships construction.

Paid extra: Dinner at a cafe 

Day 2:
White Sea – Mount Sekirnaya – Botanical garden – Bolshoy Zayatsky Island

09.00 am Breakfast at the hotel's cafe.

  • Bus tour to Mount Sekirnaya. Holy Ascension skete (3 hrs).

Visiting one of the highest points of Bolshoy Solovetsky Island – Mount Sekirnaya, which offers a stunning view of the island and the White Sea. Explore the history and monuments of the Holy Ascension skete that functions until now! Back in the times of Solovki prison camp, it served as a punitive isolation ward, a place of detention and punishment of prisoners.

  • Botanical garden (3 hrs). Visiting Russia's northernmost botanical garden with a tour around the prior's summerhouse, Alexander Chapel and the memorial cross.

Lunch at a cafe on the island (paid extra).

Upon request (paid extra):

  • Sightseeing tour to Bolshoy Zayatsky Island (3 hrs).Voyage to Zayatsky Island (45 min).  Visiting the largest pagan sanctuary of the 2nd-1st millennia BC, stone labyrinths, religious and burial structures, Russia's first stone harbor, the Skete of St. Andrew.

Dinner at a cafe on the island (paid extra).

Day 3:
White Sea – History of Solovki prison camps – Boat trip – Bolshaya Muksalma Island

09.00 am Breakfast at the hotel's cafe. Check-out. Personal belongings are handed over for safekeeping.

  • Trip to Solovki special prison camps that operated in 1923-1939 (2.30 hrs). Uncover Solovki special prison camp, its historic milestones and reformation to Solovki special prison in 1937, as well as learn about the fate of its prisoners. Visiting the camp's exposition and monuments to Solovki prisoners.

Lunch (paid extra).

Upon request (paid extra):

  • Boat trip on the lake and canal system of Solovki (5-6 hrs).

Boating along the man-made canals connecting 5 lakes; learn about the hydraulic monuments and structures of Bolshoy Solovetsky Island. Navigating a boat on your own, 4-5 person per boat. Walking to the boathouse and back (2.8 km from the tour bureau). The tour is arranged only if the weather is good.

  • Voyage to Bolshaya Muksalma Island (5 hrs).

Voyage by motor boat across the picturesque Dolgaya Guba Bay to Bolshaya Muksalma Island. Gasp at the colossal hydraulic structure, 1.5 km man-made boulder dam connecting Bolshoy Solovetsky and Bolshaya Muksalma islands, as well as explore the history of Sergiev skete of Solovki monastery.   
Transfer from the hotel to the pier by 06.30 pm.
07.00 pm Departure from Solovki by ship to the port of Rabocheostrovsk village (12 km from Kem).
09.00 pm Arrival in the mainland

!! For tourists from St. Petersburg: departure from Solovki at 04.00 pm to catch Train 21

Day 4:
09.00 am Breakfast at the hotel's cafe.
Check-out.
Transfer to the railway station in Kem/Belomorsk.
Departure of the group by morning trains:
For tourists from St. Petersburg: Train 015A Murmansk-S. Petersburg, 06:29 am
For tourists from Moscow: Train 091Ч Murmansk-Moscow at 09:34 am

Price:

Accommodation
(₽/person)

Solo Hotel

Solovetskaya Sloboda Hotel 

double room

18,500 

21,000 

single room

 23,000 

28,400 

Inclusive:

  • accommodation in the hotel in Solovki/2 nights; hotel accommodation in Rabocheostrovsk/1 night;
  • entrance tickets according to the program;
  • guided tour service in Solovki according to the program;
  • ship trips to Solovki;
  • meals: 4 breakfasts;
  • guided tour service and transfers according to the program.

*We reserve the right to adjust the route with the program core attractions unchanged.

*In case of unforeseen circumstances, the company reserves the right to replace the tours without reducing the total scope of the program.

Price includes
    • accommodation in the hotel in Solovki/2 nights; hotel accommodation in Rabocheostrovsk/1 night;
    • entrance tickets according to the program;
    • guided tour service in Solovki according to the program;
    • ship trips to Solovki;
    • meals: 4 breakfasts;
    • guided tour service and transfers according to the program.
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