Royal Plaza, Unit 8, 10 Paisley Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 2N6
Phone: (519) 826-4077 / Fax: (519) 826-5244 / 1-877-683-5742 (N.A.)
rbuck@agritourscanada.com / www.agritourscanada.com
Ukrainian Bread Basket Cropping and Dairy Tour
September 16 – 24, 2012
Day 1 – Saturday, Sept. 16, 2012 – Toronto – Kiev, Ukraine
Departure from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport – overnight flight to the Ukraine.
15:50 Check in for direct flight to Kiev, Ukraine.
18:50 Departure for Ukraine – overnight flight.
Day 2 – Sunday, Sept. 17 – Kiev, Ukraine – Capital of the Ukraine
(L, D)
11:30 Morning arrival to “Boryspil” airport in the outskirts of Kiev.
 Meet our guide and transfer to Kiev known in Ukrainian as Kyiv.
 Because we arrive too early to check in to our hotel, we will take a
tour of Kiev/Kyiv – a city tour that includes the Golden Gate, Saint
Sophia Cathedral, Sophia Square, B. Khmelnuckyi monument, lunch
in Kiev’s historic district, Andriivska church, National Bank of
Ukraine, feudal castle, Chocolate house, Klovskyi Palace to name a
few of the highlights.
 Transfer to the hotel - Check in the hotel Autograph” Dinner at a local
restaurant or in the hotel.
Ukraine in relationship to its Neighbours.
Pictures above
Pechersk Lavra one of the oldest
Monasteries in Eastern Europe in Kiev
and the Golden Gate, original entrance
to the ancient city and part of the wall
which once surrounded the city of Kyev.
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TICO# 2716341
Royal Plaza, Unit 8, 10 Paisley Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 2N6
Phone: (519) 826-4077 / Fax: (519) 826-5244 / 1-877-683-5742 (N.A.)
rbuck@agritourscanada.com / www.agritourscanada.com
Day 3 – Monday, Sept. 18 – Kiev - Regional Tours – Kiev
(B, L, D)
07:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
08:15 Depart for Agrofirm Mayak ltd. For a travel day to visit to large-scale farming operations in the region
around Kiev. No need to pack as we return to the same hotel this night.
11:30 Visiting Agrofirm Mayak, LTD - Land area of this farm is 7600 ha, including arable area 6700 ha; a cattle
operation with over 2850 heads; Dairy herd size of 1000 head; Breed Ukrainian Red-and-White and
Ukrainian Black-and-White. Cattle in the Ukraine in many cases are dual purpose, bred for beef and
dairy. Beef production is often combined with dairy operations as a result.
13:00 Lunch on the way
14:00 Transfer to the second farm of the day, a modern dairy operation with Holstein Cattle.
16:00 Visiting "Ukrainian Milk Company" LTD & Biogas plant (14,000 ha of land; Herd size 6,653 heads, Dairy
herd size 3,200 heads; Breed: Holstein; Average milk yield per cow/year 9,000 kg; Fat 3.8 %; Protein
3.2 %; SCC 160,000; Bacteria count 40,000; Milkings per day 3; Milking parlor - Parallel 2x36, Delaval –
2 parlors; Days in milk 174; Number of cows per milker 40; Pregnant cows 40%; Semen dozes per
conception 2.65; Milk price 3.60; Ingredients: Maize silage 18, Alfalfa haylage 10, Barley 1.5; Grass hay
1.0; Maize 5.5; Oats 1.5; Soybean meal 1.0; Sunflower meal 2.0; Rape meal 0.5). Biogas plant - 400
tons of liquid manure per day humidity 93%, manure extraction "flesh-flow", 2 cogeneration units:
625 kWh electricity + 686 kWh heat, 330 kWh electricity + 395 kWh)
17:30 Transfer back to the hotel to freshen up before our evening dinner.
19:00 Dinner at a local restaurant
Day 4 – Tuesday, Sept. 19 - Kiev - Zhashkiv (Distance – 150 km)
(B, L, D)
07:00 Breakfast at the hotel
08:00 Check out from the hotel
08:15 Travel south to the farm, eventually ending in the midst of a large agro-industrial region in Zhashkiv
(click city name link to see map of the region).
10:00 Today we visit the large agro-industrial company Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), and their mixed
farm Agrofort PrJSC. In 2006, MHP started up a multi-product enterprise to diversify sources supplying
raw materials to the group’s processing businesses, as well as to test new varieties and breeds. The
enterprise’s core activities include crop cultivation of corn, winter wheat and rape, sunflower and
cattle breeding - raising breeding bulls and cows. The area of cultivated land amounts to 1162 hectares,
half of which is planted in corn.
11:30 Departure
12:30 Lunch on the way
14:00 Visiting pig farm “Elita” Ltd (4000 pigs, breed: Cora, Optimus, Big White; 500 sows, 1300 ha)
15:00 Visiting dairy farm “Terezyno” Ltd (2795.5 ha of land; Herd size 1662 heads, Dairy herd size 825 head;
Breed: Red-and-white and Black-and-white Holstein; Average milk yield per cow 20 kg; Fat 4.25 %;
Protein 3.35 %; 2 Milkings per day; Milking equipment 2 x16 Parallel; Days in milk 347; Lactations in the
herd 4.5; Cull rate 27%; Semen dozes per conception 3)
18:00 Check in the hotel “Parade Allure” http://www.sport.paradeallure.com/
19:00 – Dinner at the restaurant in or near the hotel.
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Royal Plaza, Unit 8, 10 Paisley Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 2N6
Phone: (519) 826-4077 / Fax: (519) 826-5244 / 1-877-683-5742 (N.A.)
rbuck@agritourscanada.com / www.agritourscanada.com
Day 5 - Wednesday, Sept. 20 - Zhashkiv – Mankivka - Odessa (Distance - 375 km)
07:00
08:00
08:15
09:00
12:30
14:30
15:00
18:00
19:00
Breakfast at the hotel
Check out from the hotel
Departure to the farm
Visit arable farm owned by Dutch “Kyschentsi” Ltd (10.000 ha of land, Crops: Winter wheat, Winter
barley, Lucern, Maize, Soy, Rape, Sugar beet, Onion; Tillage: no-till, mini-till; Machinery: Tractor: Case
500 (2), JD 8330, JD 8320 (2), JD 6930 (4), New Holland w190, JCB 53170, CAT, Combine harvester: JD
S690i (6), Seeding-machines: JD 12, HORCH ATD 18.35,Spraying machine: AGRIFAC CONDOR, DUBEX
P/N12500 (4), Seeds: Pioneer, Monsanto, Lemken, Strube, Maribu)
Lunch on the way
Departure to the farm
Visit arable farm named after Posmitnogo (8.000 ha of land, Crops: Winter wheat, Winter barley,
Maize, Winter Rape, Sunflower; Tillage: mini-till)
Check in the hotel “Black Sea” http://odessablackseahotels.com/
Dinner at the restaurant
Day 6 – Thursday, Sept. 21 - Odessa – Simferopol (by train overnight)
07:00
08:00
08:15
09:30
13:00
14:00
17:00
18:30
19:29
(B, L, D)
(B, L, D)
Breakfast at the hotel
Check out of the hotel.
Transfer to our first visit.
Visit the Sea Trade Port of Ilyichevsk. This port is one of the largest in Ukraine, is situated on the coast
of Sukhoy Liman (estuary). The port can admit vessels of up to 13 m draft and lifting capacity more
than 100,000 t. Port Illichevsk is a component of the European Community’s 9th International
Transport Corridor, and also a component of the Baltic Sea – Black Sea Corridor. Agricultural
commodities and industrial products are shipped from this port on the Black Sea.
Lunch
Guided visit of Odessa including the Opera House, which is the second best in Europe, the massive
Potemkin stairs, beautiful palaces and churches, monuments to Deribas, Catherine the Great, The Duke
de Richelieu among other important landmarks in
Odessa.
Dinner at a local restaurant near the train station.
Transfer to the train station - Tonight will not be spent
in a hotel, but rather in a sleeper compartment of the
regional train that will take us to Simferopol.
Departure to Simferopol – overnight aboard the train.
See the Crimea Map to the right, to see a more detailed view
of where the tour will end up, on the Black Sea, where we visit
Yalta, Seavastapol and Simferopol.
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Phone: (519) 826-4077 / Fax: (519) 826-5244 / 1-877-683-5742 (N.A.)
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Day 7 – Friday, Sept. 22 - Simferopol - Yalta
07:25
08:00
09:00
09:30
11:00
12:30
14:30
17:00
18:00
(B, L, D)
Morning arrival to Simferopol, where we will disembark and catch our bus to Yalta.
Transfer to Yalta
Check in to our hotel “Krasotel” http://www.krasotel.ru/eng/rooms/rooms.html
Breakfast at the hotel
Yalta city tour beginning with a walking tour along the Seafront, Ihnatenko, Roosevelt, Sadova, Pushking, and Catherine
Streets, where you will see magnificent villas of the 19thearly 20th centuries, fashionable hotels, museums. Lesia
Ukrainka Literary Museum, A. Chehov Memorial House
“White Dacha”, Armenia Church, Roman Catholic Church, St.
Alexander Nevski Cathedral, alleys in Yu. Gagarin Maritime
Park – Yalta a famous sea-side resort – learn more at this link:
Yalta – Black Sea Resort City.
Lunch at a sea-side restaurant
Visit of Massandra Winery: Wine cellar tour + wine tasting. The Massandra Winery Museum is a
treasure trove of trivia delights: a bottle of 1775 Massandra Sherry de la Fronterra certified by the
Guinness Book of World Records to be the oldest Russian wine; and a certificate of the Crimean
Observatory of the Ukrainian Academy of Science showing that a newly-discovered asteroid is now
called Massandra. The museum houses a display showing the development of winemaking in history.
After visiting the museum, guests will enter the cellars, where rows of barrels contain wines being aged
prior to bottling.
Departure back to our hotel in Yalta.
Dinner at the restaurant in or near our hotel.
Overnight in Yalta in the hotel “Krasotel”
Day 8 – Saturday, Sept. 23 – Yalta - Sevastopol – Alupka - Yalta
(B, L, D)
07:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
08:30 Travel to Sevastopol for a city tour Museum of “Panorama” complex and “Malakhiv Kurgan”, Diorama
of the Defense of Sevastopol in 1854—1855 , Museum of the Black Sea Fleet , Nahimov square and
other famous parts to this historic Black Sea naval port.
12:00 Lunch at the restaurant
15:00 Boat trip on the Black Sea, during which you will see the famous palace of the "Sea Swallow's Nest",
you will hear stories from the guide about the sights of the coast, learn about the legends and stories
associated with this region.
17:00 Visit of Livadia Palace - The summer home of the last of the Russian Tsars, Nikolai II, and in 1945 home
to the Yalta Conference, where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met to re-draw the map of Europe at the
end of the war - the Livadia Palace breathes the history of the last 150 years.)
18:00 Dinner at the restaurant.
Overnight in Yalta in the hotel “Krasotel”.
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TICO# 2716341
Royal Plaza, Unit 8, 10 Paisley Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 2N6
Phone: (519) 826-4077 / Fax: (519) 826-5244 / 1-877-683-5742 (N.A.)
rbuck@agritourscanada.com / www.agritourscanada.com
Day 9 – Sunday, Sept. 24 - Yalta – Simferopol – Kiev – Toronto
(B)
05:00 Check out the hotel – transfer to the airport. Departure to the airport in Simferopol by bus.
06:00 – arrive at the airport – light breakfast at the airport.
07:10 Flight to Borispol Airport in Kiev.
08:40 Arrive in Kiev.
10:45 Departure on flight back to Canada (directly).
16:50 Arrive in Toronto, Canada – meals on board flight.
COST:
Number of participants
14 participants or more
required for tour to go
Cost per person - Full-board
3 meals/day, all transportation to and from and in the Ukraine
(airport transfers in Canada excluded)
$3,489.00 Canadian (including all taxes)
Service provided by AgriTours Canada and Real Ukraine Agency, a member of ATOI:
Inclusions:
Luxury coach transport during the whole period – coach size depending on group size
 International flights to and from Ukraine,
 Domestic flight from south region of Ukraine back to Kiev and to Canada.
 Transportation in Deluxe Motor coach throughout Ukraine
 Train transfer in overnight sleeper in southern Ukraine - Odessa – Simferopol.
 Boat trip around Southern coast of Crimea
 Organized technical visits as listed
 Tourism attractions – cultural and scenic including a visit to the Black Sea port area.
 7 night’s hotel accommodation (4 stars) / 8 days motor coach
 Full-board (3 meals/day)
 Fully Guided in the Ukraine by a Ukrainian-English speaking agricultural specialist or guide.
 Tour Director from AgriTours Canada
 1 bottle of water per person each day (0.5 litres)
 Excursions, entrance fee and visits in Kyiv , Odessa, Yalta, Livadia, Massandra,: - city tour Kyiv
 Guided visit of Odessa
 Sevastopol city tour
 Yalta city tour
 Livadia Palace
 Massandra Winery : Wine cellar tour + wine tasting
Not included:
 Insurance for flight cancellation, interruption, baggage and medical coverage (can be provided)
 Items of a personal nature.
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Phone: (519) 826-4077 / Fax: (519) 826-5244 / 1-877-683-5742 (N.A.)
rbuck@agritourscanada.com / www.agritourscanada.com
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Gratuities for the driver and Ukrainian guide
Transfers to and from Pearson International Airport.
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