Tour to Siberia "Diamonds of Siberia"

TOUR TO SIBERIA «DIAMONDS SIBERIA»

7 days / 6 nights

ITINERARY

Yakutsk — Mirniy

TOUR DETAILS

Accomodation in the hotels with national style

16 Meals: 6 Breakfast + 5 Lunch + 5 Dinner

Avia and bus transportation

We invite you on a journey to Siberia and to Yakutia — main center of Russian diamonds.

This is a land of unique nature with a temperature from -60 in winter and till summer — +40.

You will see Siberia in all its glory.

PROGRAM

Day 1

Arrival in Siberia in Yakutsk. The town stands on the banks of the Lena River — the largest river in Russia. Meet your guide and transfer to the hotel.

Lunch with national dishes.

Sightseeing tour of Yakutsk, the ancient city, founded in the XVII century. Russian Cossacks. You will see the Orthodox church and the beautiful wooden houses.

Dinner and rest.

Day 2

Breakfast. Visit the museum’s unique nuggets of gold, platinum, silver, major natural siberian’s diamonds and other precious stones.

It presents a collection of jewelry in the museum. The museum gives an idea of the natural wealth of Siberia’s interior.

Familiarity with different technologies of processing of precious metals and stones, animal bones, mammoth tusks.

Very interesting excursion to the diamond-cutting plant, where you can see the reality of the processing of natural diamonds.

Lunch.

After lunch, the opportunity to visit shops and make purchases of diamonds. It offers articles of silver and gold from the local jewelers.

Dinner and rest.

Day 3

Breakfast. A visit to the trade fair center «Sahabult» where a huge range of products of local craftsmen.

Lunch and degustation national cuisine.

Excursion to the ethnographic complex «Ytyk-Haya». Distinctive rituals and rites of Sakha people. You will see the traditional utensils, household items and listen to the enchanting sounds of the Yakut national instrument — khomus.

In the winter, it can be laminated on the dog and reindeer in the complex «Chochur Muran» (additional service).

A unique set of «The Kingdom of Permafrost» is located near. This ice tunnel into the mountain. Temperature therein -10 ° C, -4 ° C in summer. In the ice caves you can see the fantastic ice sculptures, ice to touch, see the ice fauna (additional service).

Dinner and rest.

Day 4

Breakfast. Transfer to the airport and flight to Mirniy — the diamond capital of the province of Siberia.

In the 50 years of the twentieth century, the first diamonds were discovered in Yakutia. Diamond pipe «Mir» was the first diamond quarry USSR.

The program includes a tour of the city peace and visit the world’s largest diamond mine.

It is really the largest holes among the ten in the world. A huge stone funnel with a depth of 525 meters, a diameter of 1200 meters and a length of a spiral road leading to the bottom of the quarry almost 8 kilometers.

It was here in 1980 that the largest diamond in our country was found — weighing 342.5 carats.

During the excursion will be lunch from national cuisine, after a tour you will go to the hotel and have dinner.

Day 5

Breakfast. Visiting the museum of «ALROSA» — famous diamond mining company.

Lunch.

Excursion to the Zoo «Living Diamonds of Yakutia», which presents the unique animals and very interesting nature of this region.

Dinner.

Day 6

Breakfast. Departure from Mirniy in the morning.

Arrival at Yakutsk and transfer to the hotel. Free time, walks around the city on your own

Day 7

Early departure from the hotel, transfer to the airport and flight home.