1-st day - arrival in Moscow or in Kazan, depending on the desire of the group.In case the group arrives in Moscow it will stay there for a day in a hotel and next day leave Moscow by train. The train will reach Yoshkar-Ola in 18 hours. Kazan is much closer to Yoshkar-Ola, and the bus will take the group to Yoshkar-Ola in 3 hours. Sightseeing in the arrival city.

2-nd day: arrival in Yoshkar-Ola. Families meet the group at the Institute and take everybody home. Tourists will have a separate bedroom. The families are very hospitable and wishing to entertain their guests, though the program that we offer will leave them very few opportunities. Families will offer breakfasts and suppers, tourists will dine out. Lanches must be purchased.
4 p.m. entertaining program at the Institute with our students.
6 p.m. - dinner at the Institute with the Mari folklore ensemble.

3-d day departure for the castle (11 a.m.) On the way to the castle you will put up at the village (15 m from the lake). In it you will have winter fishing in winter, Russian bath, tea from Russian samovar. Russian hosts secure an ice hole in the lake and dive into it after the bath. The log cabin you will stay in has a Russian stove with all Russian kitchen utensils' which you may handle and take pictures.
~18 p.m. - arrival at the castle. The castle provides accomodation in 2-room suits. In one of its huge halls a festive table will be laid. The dinner will be supplemented by a lot of Russian and Mari folk ensembles, involving the group into action. There you will meet Russian students, sing songs with them and have fun.

4,5,6 days - staying in the castle. Fishing, attending pagan rites, participating in them, having a competition of making snow-figures in winter, bathing, boating and fishing in summer.

Our place is unique, because it is middle of Russia, on the one hand, and many Maris, who are pagans, also live here. So it is twice as exotic and twice as fun. The castle is situated in a very large anchient Russian village. Because the village it sprang up at the same time with the castle, it is a historical place. You will visit old houses and observe the life of Russian village from within. A very rich entertaining program is provided; riding in a Russian troikas and enjoying an absolutely magnificent landscape of winter Russian forest. Warm clothes will be provided.

6-th day, 15 p.m. - leaving for Yoshkar-Ola. Resting in families.

7-th day - 11a.m. Excursion about Yoshkar-Ola (the town was founded in the 16 century). Having volley-ball, badminton or tennis competitions with our students. They will not to be serious. Russian fairy tale personages will make it all a performance actually rather than a competition. But if a group wishes, it'll have an actual competition.

8 day - visiting Kozmodemyansk, the city on the Volga, famous for its fretwork.

9 day - visiting a country house on the very bank of the Volga.
In the program: dances, attractions of all kinds, competitions for the best hunter's story and the like.

10 day - visiting another exotic village and riding troikas again; a concert, Russian bath again.

11 day - departure for Moscow and home.

12 day - flight to the States.