Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine most major travel companies and agencies have stopped all tours to Russia and it isn’t recommended to travel here right now.
Highlights
• Check out the Kremlin, wander around the Red Square, explore Moscow’s flea markets and infiltrate the Kremlin.
• Hop a train in Moscow and keep going and going and going all the way to Vladivostok on the Trans-Siberian railway.
• Wander the waterways of St. Petersburg – the ‘Venice of the North’ – taking in the grand palaces along the way.
• Take a tour of the massive Hermitage in St. Petersburg to get your bearings, returning later to concentrate on your favourite bits.
• Traverse the massive Lapland Biosphere Reserve on foot in the summer or snowshoe, skis or skidoo in winter in search of reindeer, bears, elk and wolves.
• If you’re a vodka drinker you’ll be in heaven… if you’re not, start drinking it! Sample some of the world’s best vodkas all over Russia.