Halal tour "The Kazan minarets"

Day 1

Coach hire and tour guide for 6,5 hours

10:00

Arrival at the airport in Kazan. Meeting with tour guide.

10:30

Bus and walking sightseeing "Legends and Mysteries of the Millennium-old Kazan" by bus. Enjoy the original beauty of Kazan, see the bright colors of its streets and squares with your own eyes, learn where teeming treasures of Khans of Kazan are kept and where water boiled in a cauldron with no fire by taking the sightseeing tour. During the sightseeing tour, you will see a variety of minarets and cupolas, crescents and crosses, which is a proof of a good neighborliness of the two native peoples - Tatars and Russians.

12:30

Time for prayer and rest in a mosque of the city.

13:00

Lunch in a restaurant (HALAL)

Optional (extra fee)

Folklore program "Yakyn Duslar" will immerse you in the world of the ancient culture of the Tatar people. Each people of the world is unique, and its soul, hidden in spiritual creativity - folklore, is unique. All tourists have the opportunity from the first minute of their stay in Kazan to touch the age-old culture of the Tatar people.

14:30

Museum of Islamic Culture. The exposition of the museum is devoted to the Islamic civilization, the peculiarities of its development in the Middle Volga region, reveals its place and role in the culture of the Tatar people. Here are presented the themes of the history of religion, prophets, primary sources and the foundations of Islam. The complex of objects for the prayer - a prayer mat, a compass for finding a direction to Mecca, a rosary, a mock-up of the Kaaba.

15:30

A walking tour "White-stone Fortress". The Kazan Kremlin is the main sight of the city; it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The Kremlin is an official residence of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and a state museum-preserve attended by thousands of tourists every year. Inside the fortress, there is one of the symbols of Kazan - the famous "leaning" tower of Tsarina Suyumbike.

16:30

Check-in at a hotel. Leisure time.

Optional (extra fee)

Night city tour "The Lights of Kazan"

Do you know how streets of Kazan were lit before the electricity? You don’t? If you are still full of vigor after an extensive sightseeing program and want to see a different Kazan, to hear about a different Kazan, then you are invited to immerse yourselves into the fairy-tale-like image of the capital. Kazan will show itself to you quiet and peaceful, but still full of lights from back-lit historical and modern buildings. The tour will take place in the brightest sights of the night city.

Day 2

Coach hire and tour guide for 11 hours

From 7:00

Breakfast at the hotel.

09:30

Meeting at the hotel lobby. Departure for the sightseeing program.

Kazan - Bolgar (~2.5 hour = 190km)

12:30

You can get acquainted with new sites in Bolgar. See one of the most significant structures added to the contemporary collections of the architectural heritage of Tatarstan - Ak Mechet (the White Mosque).

13:00

Time for prayer and rest in a mosque of the city.

13:30

Lunch in a restaurant (HALAL)

14:30

A walking sightseeing tour "Mecca of the North" in the town of Bolgar. More than 700 years ago, in the place of the present-day town of Bolgar, there was an ancient city, the capital of Volga Bulgaria - an early-feudal state located in the interfluve of Volga and Kama rivers. The historical and archeological site of Bolgar was included in the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites. See all the landmarks remaining in the territory of the ancient town site: Congregational Mosque, East and North Mausoleums, Khans’ Mausoleum, Minor Minaret, Black Chamber, White Chamber, Khans’ Bathing House, Khans' Palace.

Visit the Literacy Museum at the embankment of Volga, the Memorial Sign built to commemorate the official adoption of Islam by the ancient Bolgars, where the world-biggest printed Quran is kept.

17:30

Departure for Kazan.

20:30

Return to the hotel. Leisure time.

Day 3

Coach hire and tour guide for 7.5 hours

From 07:00

Breakfast at the hotel.

10:00

Check-Out. Meeting with the tour guide at the hotel lobby. Departure for the sightseeing tour with luggage.

10:30

Visit the Muslim Training and Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and the Yardam Mosque. In 2013, a unique Yardam mosque was opened in Kazan, which has no analogues in Russia and the Near Abroad. It represents a whole complex, which included a prayer hall, a hostel for non-residents, a canteen, computer classes, a library, and a mini-typography. Here, people with disabilities who need physical and spiritual rehabilitation are trained in writing and reading in the Louis Braille system, computer literacy, various crafts and professions, and they take adaptation courses on the ground.

11:30

Time for prayer and rest in a mosque of the city.

12:00

Tranfser to the restaurant.

12:30

Lunch in a restaurant (HALAL)

14:00

Excursion "Islam, Muslims, mosques". The Old-Tatar Sloboda is the historical district of Kazan located on the right bank of the Lower Kaban Lake, where the loyal Kazanians were relocated in the 16th century after the conquest of the city by Ivan the Terrible. A tour of the Old-Tatar Sloboda is an opportunity to plunge into Kazan in the 18-19th centuries, where without exaggeration each house is associated with outstanding names for Tatar history and culture. In the 18th century, prominent figures of the Tatar people lived in Sloboda: the intelligentsia, the clergy, merchants and industrialists. You will know history of the origin of the Old-Tatar settlement and the overview show of the Blue Mosque (Fourth Sobornaya), the Burnaev Mosque (Third Cathedral). Visiting the most beautiful pre-revolutionary mosque of the city "Azimovskaya" and the First Cathedral Mosque "Al Mardjani".

15:45

Visiting the shopping center "Vostochny" or the supermarket of home food "Bakhetle Halal".

16:30

Transfer to the airport.

17:30

End of the tour.

Hotel

SGL supplement

Per night

10+1

15+1

20+1

25+1

30+1

35+1

40+1

Relita 4*

(open buffet)

25

266

263

242

226

216

210

205

Korston 4*

(open buffet)

25

276

272

250

235

225

220

215

Kazan Palace 5*

(open buffet)

85

437

428

403

386

376

370

365