Top Odessa Day Trips

Tour to the ethnic village house "Cossack's family", which is situated 40 km away from Odessa, in the village Marinivka. You will find there beautyful view of the Ukrainian nature, picturesque coast of Hagibey estuary and hospitable owner Iryna. She will meet you with national Ukrainian tradition: glass of horylka (vodka) and salo (lard) sandwiches. Here you will immerse yourself in cossack's culture and traditions, ethnic clothes and interesting master-classes.

Experience all that Odessa has to offer in a comprehensive full-day private tour.  After pickup from your hotel, you and your guide will visit the catacombs in Nerubajskoe and the historical highlights of the city.  Then, explore the city center on foot, stopping at famous palaces such as the Vorontsov and Tolstoy palaces. Lastly, take a literary tour of the Odessa and learn about the great writers associated with the city.

During water excursions in Lower Dniester national park tourists can see pelicans, swans, big and small cormorants, storks, wading ducks, as well as thickets of rare plant: Nymphoides peltata and one of Europe's largest plantations of nuthar lutea, which are named by people 'yellow water lilies'. During blossom of white water lilies tourists are impressed by Bile Lake (White Lake). It's water surface looks like as if a continuous carpet of white flowers covered it.

Discover centuries of Ukrainian history on a private, 5-hour tour from Odessa to the ancient city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. Hear about the many rulers and eras that left their mark on this legendary place, from ancient Greeks and Romans to Bulgarians, Goths and Armenians. Get a dose of medieval adventure and romance at the 14th-century Akkerman Fortress, where you can walk along the old defense walls and explore an underground church. Throughout the day, enjoy the personalized attention of a private guide.

Take an exclusive tour to discover a hidden gem of Ukraine, the city of Vilkovo, and get acquainted with local people, their way of living, culture, and culinary traditions. Visit a unique Danube Biosphere Reserve where time stops and only peace, beauty, and nature does matter.

Travel back in time to the Soviet Union period on a private day trip to Transnistria from Odessa. Explore the main sights of the unrecognized country and see Soviet-style buildings, old-fashioned public transport and monuments to Lenin, Suvorov and Gagarin. With an expert guide, you will visit the cities of Bender and Tiraspol and learn interesting facts from the history and present of the “country that doesn’t exist”.

In this tour you will get acquainted with one of the very picturesque corners of the Odessa region - the village of Okny, located on the north of the region, just nearby to Moldova border. Here you can find the bright and very natural apiary. In addition to producing delicious honey, the apiary owner is happy to receive guests, conducts fascinating excursions about beekeeping, telling about the history of its development from ancient times to today's technology. There are also comfortable houses for apitherapy - sleep on bee hives. Well, and what a tour without tasting the delicious drinks from natural honey!

Take an exclusive tour to discover a hidden gem of Ukraine, the city of Vilkovo, and get acquainted with local people, their way of living, culture, and culinary traditions. Visit a unique Danube Biosphere Reserve where time stops and only peace, beauty, and nature does matter.

Discover an often missed side of Ukraine on a day trip to Kherson. Avoid slow-paced public transit with round-trip private transportation from your Odessa hotel. With your private guide on hand, you can avoid uncomfortable language barriers. Military buffs will especially love the in depth look at the military history of the region. Enjoy free time to explore on your own and eat lunch (at own expense).

If you are you interested in top-secret military objects of the Soviet Era and the Cold war, a visit of the Missile base is a right choice for you. Discover striking facts and secrets about arms race and see unique collection of ballistic missiles. Here you can sit at the desk of doom, pretend to take that fateful call on an old Soviet phone, and press the button that once would have ended civilisation as we know it. These days it sets off lights and alarms, but thankfully no missiles are launched.

Experience the rich flavors and fascinating history of the Odessa region on this private, full-day adventure. Travel through the southern Ukrainian countryside to the ancient city of Belgorod-Dnistrovskyi, where you can explore the defense walls and towers of Akkerman Fortress. After learning about the dramatic battles and legends of the medieval citadel, relax with a nice glass of wine at the nearby Shabo Wine Culture Center. Tour the vineyards and cellars to learn about traditional winemaking methods and taste unique regional varietals.

Enjoy a great opportunity to see all the main Odesa attractions and famous Odea Catacombs on a comprehensive 5-hour combo tour. This tour gives a perfect introduction to the history and present days of Odessa and can be easily customized to meet all your requirements. Discover must-see sights and landmarks of the city, including Odesa Opera Theater, Potemkin Steps, Deribasivska street and much more. Get the best of Odesa on a combo tour with friendly local guide.

Discover the history and heritage of Shabo wine with a full-day, private tour of the celebrated wine growing region and Shabo Wine Culture Center from Odessa. Learn about the Swiss settlers that planted Ukraine with vineyards, and explore a wine cellar, brandy hall and museum. Taste your way through some of Shabo’s most distinctive varieties in an elegant tasting room, and get inside tips on choosing the best bottles as souvenirs.

Would you like to find a place, where the 4 main elements, water, air, earth, and sun, gathered in a single whole? Looks ideal! And what about adding oysters and wine? Almost paradise! We invite you to the "Farm of Oysters Scythia", located on the Tiligul estuary coast. Scythia oysters have a soft flesh with a delicate sea aroma and a sweet nutty finish. Oysters tasting at this place give you a strong advantage to get on the table oysters, which were just taken from the water. In contrast to imported oysters, which need 5-7 days delivery time. Also you can spend a perfect time there: lying on the beach, sailing the boat, enjoy the kitesurfing or just view the local nature in the fresh air.

I do postcards with my drawings and budget tours to top attractions and hidden gems of Transnistria. Honestly, I can’t make Maldives of my country, because it is not Maldives. But i can make an unforgettable journey through all contrasts of what it really is - beautiful panoramas and impressive soviet lost places, curious history and nowadays life in the country that doesn't exist, combining classic walk with forays for true explorers and adventurers. Full day tour takes eight hours default, though Transnistria deserves at least a week. It is not Stalinism, we are very volatile where to go and what to do, but default route covers must-see USSR era and modern bits of Tiraspol, Bendery and optionallly Kitskany, and my favorite nooks and crannies that I discovered doing my sketches. The trip wont be exhausting, not boring at all, we will have time to talk about all peculiarities of past and present of Transnistria, you won’t be meeting a guide, you will be meeting a friend!

Soviet tour is an exciting journey in the socialistic past of Transnistria! You will immerse in the world of soviet monuments, luxurious finish materials of culture houses, university and libraries, predominance of Red, national motives. You will be witness of 70 years old Soviet history of Transnistrian region. You can think that time it stops there. So, let’s go, dear comrades!