3 days
MIN 15 PAX/group
for Delegates only 26. - 28.01.2011 (CANCELLED!)
for Participants 28. - 30.01.2011
Price:
310 EUR*/per person in twin room (for two people booking at the same time)
40 EUR*/single supplement
Supplement for extra night in Tartu
35 EUR*/per person in twin room (for two people booking at the same time)
20 EUR*/single supplement
*Should VAT or the EEK-EUR official fixed exchange rate change during the contracted period, we reserve the right to alter rates accordingly.
Packages include: 2 nights accommodation in Tartu in twin room Hotel Dorpat, city tour, 2 half-day trips to Setomaa and Otepää, 2 breakfasts, 1 Seto lunch, 1 pub lunch in Otepää, 2 dinners (3-course or buffet, drinks not included), tourist guide services, entrance fees to Tartu University main building, Seto village museum, St.John’s church, Estonian national flag museum in Otepää, minibus or coach as needed for the programme.
Tartu is Estonia’s second largest city, famous for its university founded in 1632, and known as the “City of Good Thoughts”. The city has played a major role in Estonian cultural life over the centuries, as home to Estonia’s first university and first theatre, and was the site of the first Estonian Song Festivals, a choir festival tradition that has continued for 150 years and is on UNESOS’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Day 1
Jan 26th/ Jan 28th: Transfer from Tallinn to Tartu by group minibus or coach 11.00 am
The tour includes a walk around the old town and across Toomemägi hill above the university, with a stop at the Town Hall Square and at the famous leaning house nearby. We will then visit the main hall of the university and the attic room where students who misbehaved were locked up. The tour will also take in the medieval Gothic brick church of St. John, which has now been restored after lying in ruins for 50 years. The church is decorated with a unique collection of 1000 terracotta sculptures.
Dinner in Tartu Gunpowder Cellar restaurant or Visit to the theatre Vanemuine performance ( musical or ballet)
Day 2
Jan 27th/ Jan 29th: The tour takes us to the Estonian-Russian border to meet the Seto people, a minority ethnic group of Estonians who have maintained their folk traditions to this day. Seto traditional clothing, the women’s costumes are very distinctive with their outsize silver decorations. Setus have also retained their ancient language, a dialect related to Estonian, but difficult even for Estonians to understand and spoken nowhere but this region. To guard over their region and their traditions, they elect a “King” of the Setos each year and hold an annual festival to declare the existence of the Kingdom of Setomaa. We will take lunch in a Seto village museum with a concert of Seto folk music and dancing performed by Seto ladies wearing their traditional costumes. We will also hear Seto Leelo, a polyphonic singing tradition that is on UNESCOS’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Dinner in Tartu restaurant or in hotel restaurant or Visit to the theatre Vanemuine performance ( musical or ballet).
Day 3
Jan 28th/ Jna 30th: A Half-day tour to Otepää
Otepää is a small resort town which is popular in summer for its picturesque lakes and hills, but which is best known as Estonia’s most popular winter resort. For 40 years it has been the venue for Estonia’s most popular skiing event, the Tartu Marathon, a 63-km cross-country skiing race, and FIS World Cup cross-country skiing races and other international competitions are held here too. Several Estonian Olympic medallists and world champions have come from Otepää, and the town was also the birth place of the Estonian national flag.
If weather conditions permit we will be able to go skiing or snow-tubing. Before leaving Otepää we will have lunch in a local pub. After lunch transfer to Tallinn.
Arrival in Tallinn at about 8.00 pm.
Package rates are subject to change if there are changes in the programme.
