“Day in Chuvashia” Tour
Best Ethnographic Route of Russia 2018
A unique one-day tour offering the opportunity to explore the traditions and culture of one of the most ancient peoples of Russia. Museum visits, engaging stories and legends, traditional cuisine, entertainment and activities!
1 day, from 09:00 to 22:00
Price: 5,300 rub./person
Tour program:
Walking tour of the historic part of Cheboksary
The walk reveals the beauty of the bays of the “Volga Venice,” and the majestic monument to the Mother-Patroness seems to bless the guests. A stop at a stone with ancient Chuvash rune symbols. Each rune, as physicists say, transmits its own vibration corresponding to its meaning. Each rune is therefore an image and a protective talisman. Chuvash embroidery can be read like a real story, containing the program of the family and lineage.
Visit to one of the museums (optional)
Visit to the Chuvash Embroidery Museum, where you can see unique exhibits. This uniqueness appears in everything: the embroidery technique is double-sided and includes more than 30 types of stitches, the balance and palette of colors, the geometric composition, and the filigree precision. Chuvash embroidery is presented in many museums around the world as unmatched art.
Visit to the National State Museum — the largest repository of monuments of nature, history, and the material and spiritual culture of the Chuvash people. The museum contains materials from the Stone Age to the present day. Its collections include more than 160,000 exhibits. Introduction to the historical past of the Chuvash people.
Visit to the Beer Museum.
Transfer to the ethnocomplex “Yasna”
Folklore welcome with tasting of the drink Shcherpet.
Here you immediately immerse yourself in the world of the ancient Chuvash. Courtyards, ornate carved window frames, wooden buildings — everything as in old times. Hospitable hosts in traditional folk clothing, as if stepped out of museum photographs. Rising above the meadow and forest is the 400-year-old Oak Kiremet — a natural monument of the Chuvash Republic.
Lunch
National cuisine: kakay shurbi, village-baked potatoes with shertanchiki, assorted pickles, national pastries huplu, yeva, herbal tea.
Visit to a specially protected natural monument area.
A story about the unique features of the Chuvash region, the worldview of ancient ancestors, and the legend of the Bulgar-Chuvash Izhek, who at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century led his clan away from the burned Great Volga Bulgaria upstream along the Volga. The places where Izhek’s clan settled are historical; from here began the resettlement of the Suvaro-Bulgars (an early name of the Chuvash) across modern Chuvashia. The place where the giant oak grows was sacred. Once there was an oak grove here. Only one oak remains, and it lives. It radiates powerful positive energy. Physicists call such places geomantic zones, ufologists call them cosmic open portals, herbalists call them places of power. Here guests make wishes that are said to come true. Wish-making practice.
Visit to the lashch brewery.
Unique tools and household items. The legend of the drink of the gods Sura — Săra.
Ancient Chuvash household life, visit to the guest courtyard.
The concept of family in the understanding of the ancestors. Grandmother’s chest riddles.
Interactive program: “Ancient Chuvash musical instruments.”
The Chuvash have more than 50 types of ancient musical instruments made from natural materials, played by everyone from young to old. Historical sources mention: “At their wedding half the village dances, half plays instruments, and then the opposite…”. Introduction to ancient instruments and a joint orchestra.
Healing bathhouse
A real wood-fired bathhouse with lye, birch whisks, and herbs.
Master class in weaving the Chuvash sun rune.
The Sun Rune (a rune of unity among the Chuvash) was found during excavations of the state of Subartu (3rd millennium BCE). Subar — the name of the Suvar people, Tu — translated from Chuvash as “mountain.” The rune is 5,000 years old. It is the main talisman and harmonizer of space. The sacred meaning of ancient Chuvash symbolic signs.
Exhibition of children’s works “My Chuvash Souvenir.”
The smallest bast shoes in Russia (Book of Records of Russia). Souvenir shopping.
Park of old swings. Slides. Dinner. Folklore program.
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