New  September In 2010 passengers can choose:
Mennonite villages in Crimea
MEDA projects in Crimea    please see a 5 minute youtube explanation
or Crimea War Sites 
(this page will be posted shortly)

Passengers will have three days to make choices when we are docked in Zaporizhia
There will be three different Molochna routes on various days
One Khortitsa Settlment route, repeated as needed
One Yazykovo Settlement, repeated as needed
Three Mennonite Return and Outreach trips, to include MEDA projects in Molochna

(on the third day in Zaporizhia, Sunday Oct 10 - not the fourth day as in other years - we all visit the founding villages of Khortitsa and Rosenthal in rotation. In Dnepropetrovsk on Oct 12 we all have a morning city tour of Mennonite urban sites in rotation. Some passengers will have private trips from Dnepropetrovsk in the afternoon to nearby Kronsgarten,  Priyut and the two different Wiesenfelds).

MOLOCHNA  NORTH 
Possible village visits depending on requests:
Tokmak, Fuerstenau, Schoensee, Liebenau, Wernersdof, Hamburg, Klippenfeld, Waldheim, Hierschau, Landskrone*, Friedensdorf, Gnadenheim, Alexanderwohl, Fuerstenwerder, Rueckenau, Tiegerweide, Muntau, Neu-Halbstadt, Halbstadt, Petereshagen, Ladekopp

MOLOCHNA WEST AND SOUTH
Possible village visits depending on requests:
Tokmak, Ladekopp, Petershagen, Halbstadt, Neu Halbstadt, Muntau, Tiegenhagen, Schoenau, Fischau, Lindenau, Lichtenau, Lichtfelde, Blumstein, Muensterberg, Rosenort, Blumenort, Tiege, Ohrloff, Tiegerweide, Rueckenau, Lichtefeld, Alexanderkrone, Steinfeld*, Prangenau*, Neukirch, Friedensruh, Kleefeld*, Juschanlee, Altonau
* doesn’t exist

MOLOCHNA  EAST AND  SOUTH 
Possible village visits depending on requests:
Tokmak, Fuerstenau, Gnadenheim, Gnadenthal, Margenau*, Nikolaidorf, Mariawohl, Paulsheim, Gnadenfeld, Konteniusfeld, Sparrau, Grossweide, Pastwa, Franzthal, Rudnerweide, Schardau, Pordenau, Marienthal, Alexanderthal, Elisabetthal, Steinbach

KHORTITSA 
Possible village visits depending on requests:
Rosengart, Burwalde, Nieder Chortitsa, Blumengart, Schoeneberg, Osterwick/Kronstal, Schoenhorst, Neuhorst, Neuendorf, Neuenburg, Kronsweide, Einlage *(mostlly under water)

YAZYKOVO
Possible village visits depending on requests:
Eichenfeld, Adelsheim, Franzfeld, Nikolaipol, Hochfeld, Paulsheim, Petersdorf, Bergmannstal (former mansion of Bergmann clan)

MENNONITE RETURN AND OUTREACH - theme tour visiting parts of western Molochna 
Route: key town is Halbstdt/Molochansk, plus also significantly Lichtenau, Petershagen, Muntau, Schoenau. The tour interacts with Ukrainian schools, leaders, institutions and The Mennonite Centre in Ukraine. This has been one of the most popular bus routes of the past three years.

The above bus routes are all included at no extra cost in your basic cruise package.

In addition you are welcome to book private trips, NOT covered in cruise costs, to outlying settlements, private estates, etc.
The cost is normally $65 US dollars per hour for van, driver and English speaking guide. This cost is shared by the number of people on the trip. You pay in cash on the ship

If you have any questions, please message Walter Unger, the DorfMeister, at walterunger@ica.net

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