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Mezhyhirya Residence "Musem of Corruption" Private Tour with Local Guide
Explore the residence of Victor Yanukovych in Mezhyhirya - one of the most striking and impressive places in Ukraine, also known as "Museum of Corruption". The previous president’s way of life explains how excessive richness and power affects a person.
Duration 4 hours
Private tour available in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, French
Group tour pricing from 180 EUR per person
We did 2 separate private tours with Katerina of Green Tours - to the Yanukovych estate and Pecherska Lavra. Both went very well, worth the premium paid. Quick & easy booking via email. Payment via Paypal. Punctual pick-up and flexible drop-off. We'd highly recommend Katerina as guide. She was very professional, open, knowledgeable, and her English was the best of the several guides we had in Ukraine. She also went above & beyond - showing us how to take the metro and buying the tokens for us, helping us get a picnic lunch before dropping us off at Babi Yar park on the way back from Mezhyhirya, taking us to a nice restaurant after Pecherska Lavra and helping us order lunch there. And she reminded me to bring a scarf to cover my head at the monastery. While you could tour the Lavra on your own, it's highly advisable to engage a guide for Mezhyhirya as the tours of the (utterly astounding) mansion & spa etc are only in Ukrainian and opening hours can be erratic.
Highlights
Walk through the wide private park with golf field and heated lakes
Watch the exclusive restaurant in a Spanish galleon form
Discover a personal farm with unique and rare animals and birds
Appreciate a stunning view of the Kyiv Sea
Explore the mansion-house called “Honka”
Description
Meet your local guide and drive to the Mezhyhirya residence in Novi Petrivtsi village. Explore the enclosed with a high fence “VIP territory” with perfectly cut trees, a tennis court, non-freezing lake, and a farm with ostriches, peacocks, pheasants and other rare kinds of birds and animals.
The most impressive building is the house of V. Yanukovych called “Honka” and a health center (optional visit, for additional fee).
If you go inside the “Honka”, you will be impressed with extra-quality materials, furniture and accessories. There are plenty of very costly and exceptional items in each room, like a Swiss music box, which costs half a million dollars, golden chandeliers, “Steinway & Sons” piano etc.
After you explore this “museum” of corruption, your driver will drop you off at your hotel.
Important information:
The access to all the optional sites (Honka, museum of retro cars, bath complex, dogs training center) is not guaranteed and depends on the Mezhyhirya residence stuff.
The most impressive building is the house of V. Yanukovych called “Honka” and a health center (optional visit, for additional fee).
If you go inside the “Honka”, you will be impressed with extra-quality materials, furniture and accessories. There are plenty of very costly and exceptional items in each room, like a Swiss music box, which costs half a million dollars, golden chandeliers, “Steinway & Sons” piano etc.
After you explore this “museum” of corruption, your driver will drop you off at your hotel.
Important information:
The access to all the optional sites (Honka, museum of retro cars, bath complex, dogs training center) is not guaranteed and depends on the Mezhyhirya residence stuff.
What’s included & not included
Hotel pick up and drop off
Private transport
Friendly local guide
Entrance tickets to the Park
Electro car rent
bath complex 50 UAH (2 Euro)-is closed on Monday and Tuesday
museum of retro cars 50 UAH (2 Euro)-closed on Mon Tue Wed
Honka 500 UAH (20 Euro)
Meeting point
Hotel pick up (for centrally located hotels or apartments)
Kyiv
Hotel pick up (for centrally located hotels or apartments)+380681431840
snezhana@greentourua.com
Green Tour Ukraine
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