If you're planning a Russian river cruise, a train trip on the Trans-Siberian Express or the Silk Road, city tours of Moscow and St. Petersburg or trips to the Baltics, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia or the Ukraine, then ask your travel agent for CG Journeys' latest brochure.
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The Toronto-based tour operator also offers packages to Belarus. Tours visit Minsk, the capital, Brest and two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park and Mir Castle.
Where is Belarus? The republic is located north of Ukraine, east of Poland, southwest of Russia and southeast of Latvia and Lithuania.
Transaero flights
The second-largest passenger airline in Russia, Transaero, offers flights from Toronto, New York, Miami and Los Angeles to Moscow Vnukovo Airport (code: VKO). The Transaero route map has flights to more than 150 destinations in Russia, Europe, Asia, Canada and the USA.
How do you get from Vnukovo Airport Terminal A to Kievsky Railway Station in central Moscow? Take the AeroExpress train. Travel time is 30 minutes.
Canada to Moscow flights
The Canadian airline, WestJet, connects Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Regina, Halifax and a dozen other Canadian cities to Transaero flights from Canada on Boeing 777 planes. Canadian Gateway offers exclusive special fares.
Additional partnerships with Singapore Airlines, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin America connect Transaero flights with more than 40 North American cities.
How long does it take to fly from Toronto to Moscow? Ten hours.
Russia river cruises
CG Journeys offers 12-day packages featuring six-night river cruises between Moscow and St. Petersburg on the Volga Dream. The trip includes two nights in a Moscow hotel and three nights in a St. Petersburg hotel.
River cruises on the Nikolay Chernishevsky, Russ and Zosima Shashkov include on-board meals, tours, Russian language lessons and entertainment.
Trans-Siberian Rail Tours
Passengers can take two private train journeys, beginning in Moscow. The Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express takes 12 days to travel to Vladivostok.
How long is this trip across Russia? The train travels 10,600 kilometers (6,600 miles) through eight time zones.
The Imperial Russia train ends its 10-night trip in Beijing after traveling through Mongolia. Highlights of both Russian train trips include Irkutsk and Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake.
Moscow and St. Petersburg tours
In addition to private and group tours of Russia's two largest cities, the CG Journeys brochure describes tours that you can take from Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The three-day circular Golden Ring coach tour visits Vladimir Suzdal, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Rostov, Pereslav Zalesky and Zagorsk before returning to Moscow. A trip to Kazan includes the Kremlin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
From St. Petersburg, the one-day train trip to Petrozavodsk continues to Kizhi Island by hydrofoil to visit the Kizhi Pogost UNESCO World Heritage Site. After viewing the Kivach Waterfall on the Karelia tour, participants travel by train from Petrozavodsk to St. Petersburg.
Tours to Armenia and Georgia
An eight-day Caucasus tour begins in Moscow and ends in Tbilisi, Georgia. The CG Journeys group tour includes viewing Geghard Monastery and the Haghpat Monastic Complex UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Armenia and learning how to make lavash bread and barbecued meat in a tonir underground oven.
In Georgia, wine-tastings and the UNESCO city of Mtskheta are highlights. The Georgia and Armenia tour includes hotels, several meals, entrance fees, local transportation and flights from Moscow to Yerevan, Armenia.
Trips to Ukraine and Baltic Countries
Kiev, Odessa and the Crimean Peninsula (Simferopol, Yalta, Sevastopol, Massandra and Backchisaray) are included in CG Journeys tours of Ukraine.
Baltic tours visit Vilnius (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia) and Tallinn (Estonia). Optional excursions offer trips to Lithuania's Trakai Island Castle and Tallinn's Kadriorg Palace art collection.
Silk Road
A 14-day private train trip through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan travels from Ashgabat to Almaty. Passengers see several UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the old city of Bukhara and the massive walls and ramparts of Merv.
For visitors with less time, an eight-day Silk Route includes flights to Tashkent and Urgench and road trips to Khiva, Bukhara, Samarqand and back to Tashkent.
Visas to Russia
As the representative of the Federal Agency for Tourism of the Russian Federation in Canada and the USA, CG Journeys and Canadian Gateway can help clients obtain visas through the Russian Federation Embassy.
In addition to tours, CG Journeys can also book hotels, flights, car rentals and insurance.
