Shortly after the ship arrives in Constanta you will make the scenic 3-hour drive to Bucharest.

On arrival, enjoy a guided tour of the city and lunch before transferring to the airport for your chartered afternoon flight to Kiev.  After touching down at the Boryspil airport, you will be greeted and transferred to your hotel (Fairmont Grand Hotel or similar).  Dinner is at a local restaurant.

• * Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

After an early breakfast in the hotel, board your coach for the drive to Prypyat. Arriving at the Dytaytky Checkpoint, you will have your passport checked, be briefed on radiation safety, the rules of visitation, and receive your personal dosimeter. Once cleared, proceed within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. There will be a second checkpoint at Prypyat. Within the city, you will have a panoramic tour of its abandoned buildings. For safety concerns, all visits are exterior within the city. Once populated with 50,000 residents, the town now sits in a silent testament to what was once everyday life here. Some of the sights you may see during your tour of the town is the almost buried village of Kopachi with its remaining kindergarten; a concrete reloading unit which was essential for the Sarcophagus erection in 1986; the hospital that received the badly injured firefighters and NPP workers; the river port and once prestigious Pripyat Café at the embankment; the Town Hall which served as the initial headquarters for mitigation; the Polissya Hotel which served as a staging area for the helicopters dropping lead bags over the Reactor 4 ruins,; the Energetic Palace of Culture; the Ferris Wheel at the never opened amusement park; Prypyat Stadium; and the Azure swimming pool which was still in operation after the accident.

Following your comprehensive panoramic tour, drive to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) for an interior visit that includes the Administrative Building #1; the central block shield that controlled the third reactor control room; an integrated automatic system of control of the “Shelter” object which was the massive steel and concrete sarcophagus that covered Nuclear Reactor #4; and the reactor’s main circulation pump room. During this extraordinary visit, your guide will relate to you the story of the fire extinguishing efforts and evacuation of the residents on the night of the disaster. Before pausing for lunch in the Chernobyl NPP Canteen, you will see a fire station, the Sarcophagus, and the New Safe Confinement “Arch”.

In the afternoon, make the drive back to Kiev, passing back through the Dytaytky Checkpoint. On arrival, at the hotel, have some time to relax and reflect on the day before heading back out to a local restaurant for dinner.

• * Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

After breakfast in the hotel, board your coach for a full-day tour of Kiev, Ukraine’s vibrant capital city. Some notable landmarks in the city include St. Sophia Cathedral that was built in the 11th century where an interior visit reveals amazing frescoes, mosaics and beautiful church paintings. Nearby is St. Andrews Church where there will be an exterior visit before having some free time to shop for souvenirs.

Following lunch at a local restaurant, drive to the Kyiv-Pecherskaya Lavra Monastery which was founded in 1051 by two monks to help promote the spread of Christianity. Built primarily in the Ukrainian Baroque style, it makes for a majestic silhouette of Kiev from the Dnipro River. During your visit, explore its churches, the golden treasury and a museum of micro miniatures.

Return to the hotel in the late afternoon and after some time to relax, head back out to a local restaurant for dinner.

• * Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

After breakfast, check-out of the hotel and transfer to Boryspil airport for your flight to Odessa. Upon arrival, enjoy a panoramic tour of the city and a box lunch on the coach before arriving at the pier and re-joining the ship.

Odessa was founded by famous Russian Empress, Catherine the Great

• City that balances the quaint with the extraordinary, from catacombs to sunny beaches
• Greek, Tatars and Turks influences
• Visit popular sites such as Deribasovskaya Street and the Potemkin Stairs

• Breakfast | Boxed Lunch