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Chasidic Roots Tour 10 days A group tour to explore the origins of Chasidism For more details and pricing for groups contact us. N.B. Olyanna Travel Ltd is the agent of ATOL Protected Tour Operators and other principals. Day 1 - Arrive in Kiev. You will be met by one of our representatives and taken by private minibus or coach to your hotel for check in.
Day 2 - Tour of Jewish sites in Kiev 
The tour includes: Golda Meir's birth place, the Brodsky Synagogue, memorial to Shalom Aleichem, Karaite Synagogue, Rosenberg Synagogue. The tour also includes a visit to Babi Yar. Day 3 - Leave for Vinnitsa by coach 
En route you will visit Zhitomyr and Berdichev. Vinnitsa still has a Jewish community and there we offer a lecture on the "Holocaust in the Vinnitsa region". You overnight here. Day 4 - Kamenets-Podolsky Travel via Medzhibozh, the burial site of Ball Shem Tov. Tour of Kemenets-Podolsky with its extraordinary mix of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Armenian, Turkish and of course Jewish culture. Overnight stay here Day 5 - Chernivsti 
You travel via Khotyn a magnificent fortress town and big shtetl. You arrive in the early afternnon and check into the hotel in Chernivtsi. Tour of city to see Jewish Quarter, the synagogue, the great Jewish cemetery and Sadigura Day 6 - Vizhnitsa to Ivano-Frankovsk 
En route through the Carpathian Mountains you will visit Vizhnitsa a famous place of worship and spirituality. Also Kosiv (Kosovo) where Besht founded Chasidism. Overnight in Ivano-Frankovsk. Day 7 - Ivano-Frankovsk to Lvov 
City tour of Ivano-Frankovsk then via Buchach the birthplace of Agnon to Lvov where you overnight. Day 8 - Lvov 
Tour of Lvov including a visit to Zhovkva. Day 9 - Lvov to Kiev You will travel via Brody and Dubno which were two big shtetls, then on to Rovno with its huge memorial to the holocaust. Arrival in Kiev and overnight there. Day 10 - Return flight to UK Back to top
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