Super cool virtual tour!

Super interesting tour! Anna showed us around her family’s village in Siberia and even into her family’s home. It was great to see the railway line between Moscow (about 4,800 km) and Vladivostok (also about 4,800 km). And in Anna’s home, we saw a traditional Russian stove, their cellar, and all around the vegetable garden. My highlight, though, was the super cool outside toilet ). This tour will make you want to visit this beautiful part of Russian when we can all travel once again. Highly recommended!

The best way to visit Russia

ExploRussia helped my family during a 12 day stay in St. Petersburg and Moscow. They helped plan the trip in detail, considering that our 6 family members’ ages ranged from 10 to 81. They had adequate vehicles for airport pickup and drop-off, great guides in both cities that had incredible access (we skipped many long queues at the most popular attractions). They were also very responsive to my father getting tired and adjusted the itinerary to better suit him. I want to congratulate and thank Olga, Kate and Natalia for all the planning, and Anastasia (St. Petersburg guide) and Dima (Moscow) for their dedication towards our enjoyment.

Get onboard with ExploRussia

We wanted a tour to Russia that gave us the opportunity to not only see the sites of Moscow and St Petersburg but also help us understand more about everyday life in Russia, progress since the dissolution of the USSR and what Russian's think about issues affecting them both local & international. With ExploRussia we achieved all those objectives and more. Maria & Kate put together a great schedule of tours and each of the guides was first class. The key to their approach was to select guides for specific tours based on their expertise and interest - not just a dump of facts but a real passion for the subject area. In addition, the guides were all good fun and great to be with each day.

Great tour with a true local

Daya showed us Moscow in a way that we could never have otherwise seen. We were the only 2 that day, so it was a really special tour. We visited the main sites in the centre and Red Square but did not spend too much time on these, go there on a typical tourist tour any day. Instead we had the rare opportunity to visit places where only the locals gather, an historic underground eatery, a very private café, a most spectacular historic grocery store. She took lots of photos and emailed them to us after, and provided very useful links to information .