Vladivostok One-Night Post-tour

August 10-11, 2008

As our fellow eclipse travelers continue their travels onward, we continue exploration of Vladivostok. Start by visiting the Vladivostok’s Fortress Museum that until recently was the city’s sea approach defense system. The museum itself is in the reconstructed 1862 Bezymianaya Battery, the first coastal battery in Vladivostok. Heavily shelled during the Russo-Japanese War, it was disarmed in 1923, and used as an auto repair plant. During the 30s, Stalin had a newer coastal battery built on outlying Russkii Island. The Vladivostok defensive region was abolished in 1993, and the fortress became a museum.
    Next visit the Vladivostok’s Antique Auto Museum that displays restored and vintage Soviet vehicles from the 1930s to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Captured German and Japanese vehicles from World War II are found here as well as Russian motorcycles, military jeeps, trucks and limousines.
    Also visit the Vladivostok Naval Cemetery where the city’s most prominent citizens are buried. These include Vladimir Arsenyev, the Historical Museum namesake, and the captain of the ship, “Varyag,” which was sunk during the Russo-Japanese War. The cemetery is the final resting place of some of the Czech Expeditionary Forces from the Civil War, and many WWII Japanese prisoners of war, who were forced to build tunnels and fortifications under the city.
    After lunch at a local restaurant depart for a walk along Korabelno-Naberezhnaya Embankment, which includes the Pacific Navy War Memorial with the C-56 submarine, the Monument to the First Settlers and the Krasny Vympel steamboat. This C-56 submarine sailed in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, sinking ten enemy ships during WWII.  It is interesting to enter the sub and imagine what life was like for the submariners.
    This afternoon we take a boat tour of Golden Horn Bay.  After the boat tour return to hotel for time to rest before dinner this evening.

Overnight: Hotel Hyundai or similar

• Accommodation based on double occupancy per itinerary with breakfast daily, local service charge and tax (standard hotel check-in/out times apply unless otherwise noted)
• Group arrival and departure transfers
• All sightseeing and excursions including entrance fees per itinerary
• Local English speaking guides throughout itinerary
• Services of a MIR tour manager throughout the land program
• Meals as listed in itinerary
• Bottled/purified water with meals
• Beverages with lunches/dinners:  choice of one non-alcoholic drink
• Gratuities to tour manager, local guides, drivers
• Baggage handling at the hotel
• Destination preparation information packet

$590 USD - Double occupancy, based on 20 or more paying passengers
Single room supplement $150

• Prices are based on a group size minimum of 20 paying passengers. Prices are subject to increases if the number of paying passengers is less than a total of 20.
• Prices are based on 2007 rates, and are subject to change. 
• Rates are based on payment by check or bank transfer.