Dancingbeartour

  Dancing Bear Tours specializes on St Petersburg shore excursions with personal touch, professionalism and true devotion to your impression of our country. We created a collection of tours that we love running ourselves and that are proved to be popular among cruise travelers. Our mission is to show you Russia at its best and hopefully, you will remember the sights you saw and history you learned through photos and unforgettable memories! Explore the wonders of Russia's western port city without the hassle of having to secure a visa. Your 2-day St Petersburg shore excursion includes free admission to many notable attractions. See Peterhof and its fountains, visit Catherine Palace, and learn the story behind its recreated Amber Room. Enjoy a guided tour of the Hermitage and discover Yusupov Palace's cellar, where a group of Russian conspirators poisoned the legendary mystic, Rasputin. You also visit the Savior on the Spilled Blood Church and St. Isaac's Cathedral. ·...

The Hermitage is St. Petersburg's most popular attraction, and one of the world's utmost repositories of art and antiquities. For several travelers, it is the major reason to visit the city on the Neva, and its vast collections could take days if not weeks to explore. Most visitors, however, wish to pack as much as possible into one morning or afternoon at the Hermitage, and this tour is intended to make sure that you miss none of the collection's stunning highlights. It is ironic that the Hermitage – the grandest museum on   the planet, enormous and labyrinthine, with a collection of three million items sprawling across five buildings as well as admired by more than four   million visitors per year – derives its name from the French word “ermitage”, meaning the 'abode of a hermit'. But this contradiction takes us back to the story of collection's origin which you will learn from our guide. Have a driving city tour to enjoy beauty of St Petersburg itself wh...