A visit to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, provides you with a variety of interesting excursions and fascinating impressions. Durind the tour you will visit golden-domed Kiev Pechersk Lavra Monastery. Founded three km south of where Kiev stood in 1051, the Caves Monastery was Kiev Rus first and for a long time most famous monastery. Spread across wooded slopes above the Dnipro, it is a unique array of gold-domed churches, underground labyrinths lined with mummified monks, and elegant monastic buildings turned museums, one of which has a hoard of Scythian gold to rival that of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.