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Explore the island of Gozo by Jeep and see the most beautiful sights in a day. This full day Jeep Tour on the island of Gozo, the one of the best possible ways to discover the most beautiful hidden charms and gives you the opportunity of taking dramatic photos of the breathtaking scenery plus all the highlights.

Jeep tour description.

After the pick up in the morning, you will aboard a private boat to Gozo to avoid queuing. It is weather permitting, otherwise you will aboard the communal ferry. On Gozo island, a Jeep tour leader will meet you on arrival.

Gozo Jeep Tour:

• Firstly, you will visit Qala Belvedere for panoramic views across the sea.
• Secondly, you will get back to nature in the Simar Valley and visit the pretty resort town of Ramla Bay.
• Followed by Ggantija Temples complex. You will have free time to see it. The entrance fee not included.
• After that you will discover the typical fishing village of Xlendi Bay and one of the island’s oldest settlements at Kercem Heights.
• At Gozo Craft Centre you will have time for shopping and tasting.
• Limestone Quarries
• The rock formations of Gozo – Dwejra, where the popular Inland Sea & Fungus Rock are. You will have time for a short boat ride on the Inland Sea – this ticket is not included, and it is weather permitted.
• Also, The Salt Pans on the north coast near the popular beach resort of Marsalforn Bay which are  very picturesque. 
• Above all is The Citadel, rising steeply above the surrounding countryside in Victoria, the Capital City.
• At the end of the jeep tour, you will have a boat ride back to Malta via the Blue Lagoon and Comino Caves.(weather permitting)

All  Jeeps come with a full qualified licensed driver that is conversant in several languages.

During summer time all tours will have a swim stop. Do not forget your swimwear and sun protection.

All participants are covered by third party liability insurance whilst taking part in any of the tours.

Bookings are accepted till 24 hours before the tour departure or until it is fully booked !

Enjoy Gozo 🙂

Price Includes

• Full day tour to Gozo island
• 20 minutes boat ride (weather permitting) via the Blue Lagoon and Comino Caves
• Lunch - Pasta or Vegetable soup Roast chicken with potatoes and vegetables Dessert Drinks: water, coffee, wine
• Pick up and drop off close to your hotel

Price Excludes

• Boat trip ticket in The Inland Sea
• Entrance fee to the Ġgantija temple complex

Departure Time

• Mellieha area from 09:10 hrs
• Xemxija & Golden Bay area from 09:10 hrs
• St.Paul’s Bay area from 08:45 hrs
• Bugibba area from 08:45 hrs
• Qawra area from 08:45 hrs
• St.Julian’s area from 08:30 hrs
• Sliema area from 08:15 hrs
• Gzira area from 08:10 hrs
• Valletta area from 07:45 hrs

Gozo island from 09:30 hrs

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A beautiful day spent in Gozo, chilling out in the back of the jeep with wind in my hair! Legendary!

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Full Day Private and Customisable Jeep Safari Tour

Note: This tour is available all year round.

Want an exclusive Jeep Tour with total freedom and flexibility, designed around you, your interests and timings? Book our FULL DAY PRIVATE + CUSTOMISABLE JEEP TOUR and get a Jeep and multilingual driver/ guide for your exclusive use, together with access to more of Gozo’s impressive landmarks. Private Jeep Tour clients visit a wider range of attractions, like: Wied l-Għasri, Wied il-Mielaħ and Tal-Mixta Cave which are not part of our Full-Day Jeep Tour.

Duration Times

• 6 hours in Gozo from 10.30 am until 16.30hrs (later start/ tour timings can be arranged)

What’s Included

• Transport from / to your hotel (or closest customer pick-up point) + drive to Cirkewwa.
• A private powerboat sailing to Gozo, avoiding ferry queues.
• 3 course light lunch (vegetarian/ vegan/ halal options available upon request).
• On the return sea crossing to Malta, guests can enjoy a sight-seeing sail of Comino’s Caves and The Blue Lagoon, weather permitting.

Terms and Conditions

• Full-Day Private and Customisable Jeep Tours are available Monday to Sunday, all year round (public holidays included)
• Tours are led by a fully qualified licensed driver, conversant in many languages.
• Throughout the Summer all tours include a Gozo swim-stop. Please remember to bring swimwear and sun protection.
• In cases of extreme bad weather or rough seas, guests travelling to Gozo may be diverted onto the larger public ferry, Gozo Channel Ferry (ferry tickets issued at no extra cost)
• All customers are covered by third party liability insurance while participating in any of our tours.

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I really, really liked Perm. If you’re looking for reasons to visit Perm – or maybe even for things to do in Perm, then look no further. I visited on my Trans-Siberian journey and was so happy I did. Let me try and convince you why!

I’m going to say it again: I really, really liked Perm . The city was somewhere I’d always been curious about – mostly because I wanted to visit Perm-36 , the only former Soviet detention camp that has been preserved and is open to the public. But the more I read about the city, the more I was convinced I would like it ( despite its less-than-stellar reputation throughout the rest of Russia ), but even I have to say I’m surprised by how much I liked the city. In fact, Perm was easily my favourite city I visited on the Trans-Siberian.

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Perm is the last city in Europe, travelling east

Perm has the right to officially call itself the last city in Europe , thanks to its location just to the West of the Ural mountains. Traditionally, Perm was the last big stop that traders would make before heading into Siberia via the Kama River and traversing Siberia’s extensive river network.

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Dr. Zhivago

Gribushin House

If you’re a fan of Russian literature, you might also be familiar with Perm for its connection to the novel Dr. Zhivago . I haven’t read it personally, but the author, Boris Pasternak, set the novel in a town based on Perm; on the city’s tourist trail, you can visit several buildings that were the inspiration for locations in the novel. House Gribushin is a great example.

Natural beauty of Perm Krai

En route to Perm-36 – less than an hour outside of Perm

The city of Perm is found in the Perm Krai (the Perm region), which is roughly two-thirds the size of the UK, with a population of less than three million. We drove through just a tiny portion of the area to reach Perm-36, but even on this short drive, I was taken by just how beautiful and green Perm Krai is . As I mentioned in my blog post about Ulan-Ude , I didn’t manage to take as many day trips out of cities and I wanted, but it looks like there are a lot of possibilities to get out and see more of Perm Krai, if you have the time. Tour companies like Evrasia Tours have some amazing options if you are looking for day trips from Perm. I would have loved to explore more and maybe done some hiking in the north of the region.

Perm architecture

One of the beautiful riverside mansions in Perm

Perm is genuinely a really pretty city in my opinion: walking around and appreciating some of the city’s architecture is one of the nicest things to do in Perm. The main streets in the city centre have some beautiful buildings, typical of the more European-style from the Russian empire. (Of course there are plenty of Soviet high-rises, too.) If you follow the green tourist trail, you’ll be led around some of the city’s nicest buildings, but those along ul. Lenina are particularly picturesque. The old train station (Perm I) and the mansions along the river are other standouts.

PERMM – The Museum of Modern Art

Getting interactive at PERMM

Chances are, if you’re thinking of visiting Perm, you’ll have already read about PERMM , an art gallery which Lonely Planet touts as one of the few subversive spaces in Russia. I have to admit, I’m not the biggest fan of art (modern or classical), but I would say that this impressive space is probably worth checking out. The exhibition when I visited was fairly out-there , but still something that I could enjoy . And while the museum is probably a lot less controversial than it might have been (PERMM’s founder and curator was removed in 2013 for poking fun at the Sochi Winter Olympics), it’s still a very cool, independent museum of art and one of the best things to do in Perm.

On my way to my amazing meal at Ris-Lapsha (see above), I stumbled upon a really cool area that was full of street art, which isn’t the most common sight in Russia. I’m not sure if this was a designated graffiti zone or something, but the art looked VERY professional ( and very instagrammable ). The area was the short, pedestrianised stretch of ul. Permskaya, roughly from number 55-67.

Cologne meets Perm

Now one of the weirdest moments of my trip – or quite possibly my life – was when I happened to glance up from my phone on the tram, just as we travelled past a Kölsch bar. Now, for those of you who don’t know, Kölsch is a special type of beer native to the city of Cologne (where I live). I had genuinely no idea this bar existed and found it by pure chance.

I went back later to find that not only was the bar dedicated to the beer, but all things Cologne. The inside was decked out in red and white (the city colours), there were prints of Cologne cathedral on the walls and emblems for the local football team FC Köln everywhere. I was in heaven. A home away from home.

‘Happiness is not behind the mountains’

“Happiness is not far away”: the new symbol of Perm

Everybody loves a good local landmark. Even better when that landmark can easily and frequently be instagrammed. Luckily, Perm has just that; a sign on the banks of the Kama river, which means ‘ Happiness is not far away ,’ (but more literally translates to: ‘ Happiness is not behind the mountains’ ) has become the new landmark of the city. The sign is pretty popular for Instagrammers, particularly when the river floods and the letters appear to be floating on the surface of the water. I don’t mind saying I grew very fond of this landmark and must have revisited at least three times to take about one million photos .

Perm was historically the last stop before crossing the Ural mountains into Siberia, the saying has a lot of relevance here. (It also doesn’t hurt that Perm’s rival, Yekaterinburg, is found on the other side of those mountains.)

The friendly bear

It’s good luck to rub the nose of the Perm bear.

However, the official symbol of the city is actually quite different – it’s a friendly walking bear and is found on the city’s crest. (Big emphasis on the ‘ friendly’ – the bear isn’t a show of strength or aggression but friendship and curiosity.)

The new friendly walking bear: in magnet form

Now one thing that really appealed to me about Perm was the region’s new branding – including a very artistic take on the friendly, walking bear. In fact, it’s fair to say that the Perm Tourism Board where pretty confused when I rocked up asking if I could buy anything with the bear on it. Instead, they gave me a load of stuff for free, including a very nice magnet, a t-shirt and more leaflets than you could shake a stick at. I am a sucker for nice branding .

The Kama Riverfront

Within the city itself, the Kama river is a great place to spend some time when the sun is shining. One thing that really left a last impression on me from this journey was just the sheer size of Russia’s rivers – the Kama is a relatively short river, but it is huge! The promenade which runs along the river is really well kept – I would recommend taking a leisurely stroll if you are looking for things to do in Perm.

The idea of visiting Perm-36 is what put Perm on my Trans-Siberian itinerary. And I’m sure it’s the same for many other visitors passing through: visiting the former GULAG is probably the #1 thing to do in Perm. Perm-36 is the only preserved GULAG in the entire of Russia and today functions as a museum and memorial site that can be visited on a guide tour from the city.

However, it’s fair to say that if you’ve read A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , Perm-36 will probably feel quite tame. Despite being a forced-labour camp, the political prisoners here were entitled to certain luxuries not permitted elsewhere, allowing for trees and gardens to be grown in the barracks, for example. You can read more about the daily life of prisoners here .

A cleaner at the Perm railway station did this to a photo of Stalin in frustration of not getting a new uniform. She was sentenced to 10 years’ hard labour. Afterwards, she had restrictions on where she could live and work for a further five years.

Visiting is a fascinating look into the Soviet system of punishment – the on-site museum to the Stalinist purges is fascinating and tragic and shows just how casually the deaths of thousands were authorised by one man and his signature. If you are interested in Soviet history, do not miss the chance to visit.

More on the Trans-Siberian:

Heading East: Yekaterinburg: 36 hours in Yekaterinburg: what to see and do

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I seriously had no idea this city was such a gem!

It was such a great place to spend some time in! I expected to like it, but I was still really surprised how much. I would happily re-visit and spend some time exploring the Krai. Would fully recommend it for a weekend.

They also play metal in public

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