Hits of Ladoga region

Breakfast in the hotel cafe.

Transfer to Ruskeala Mountain Park (~30 minutes). 

Meeting with a guide in a mountain park. 

Group land tour in Ruskeala Mountain Park. 

The old and abandoned quarry of stone mining, which has been developed for almost three centuries, is now equipped for tourists to visit. 

You will see a unique creation — a huge bowl, carved by human hands in an array of marble strata, which stretches from north to south for 456 m, and its width is 109 m. 

Take a walk along the extraordinary lake, which is framed by gentle and steep cliffs of light gray marble, reaching a height of 25 m above the water mirror.

In your free time, you can use additional park services (purchase at the ticket office of the park on the day of the event): 

• The Underground Ruskeala route.
• The museum "Abodes of Angels".
• The trolls.
• The secret trails of the KALEVALA land.

Return by retro train to Sortavala. To purchase a ticket, please send the full details!

Arrival in Sortavala.

Transfer to the hotel.

Breakfast in the hotel cafe.

Room release. Items can be left in the hotel's luggage room. 

Boat trip along the Ladoga skerries (duration 2 hours).

To get to the National Park, we will visit one of the bays of Lake Ladoga with steep cliffs and a beautiful legend about a mermaid girl. Here we will start a boat trip along the skerries, making exits on some islands.

You will pass through the straits where Vikings visited and Peter I's fleet fought with the Swedes. 

In the skerries you can see small but very picturesque waterfalls, which are not easy to reach in any other way. 

Return to Sortavala.

Lunch at a cafe in the city.

Visit to the Bastion History Park.

There are currently four locations in the park.: 

• Viking Age Living History Museum "Black Bear Fortress".
• The Four Fronts Museum of Living History, which is dedicated to the Soviet-Finnish armed conflicts of the 20th century.
• The Stone Age eco—site is a natural space with petroglyphs applied to the stones;
• Exhibition of wooden sculptures "The Secret life of insects".

The price includes themed guided tours that run every half hour in all museums at the same time. 

Once you get here, you will detach yourself from reality. Fortress walls, observation towers, Viking dwellings, a blacksmith shop. 

You can try on a warrior's armor or a merchant's costume. You will see the reconstruction of typical fortifications. There is an equipped artillery position, a bunker, shooting points with bulletproof shields and trenches connecting all the fortifications together.

Transfer to the railway station in Sortavala.

The program ends around 18:00.