Forget trinket shopping and bus tours on your next cruise. Here's a shore excursion you can brag about: soaring 80,000 feet above the earth in a Russian MIG military jet. You can even take the controls and do maneuvers. www.silversea.com offers the high-flying thrills on a three-day excursion from St. Petersburg, Russia. After flying to Moscow for a city tour, you go to Nizhny Novgorod, where, after training, you board the MIG with a test pilot for a one-hour flight. Then it's back to St. Petersburg by train. As souvenirs, you get a flight suit, a film of your big day, lifetime memories — and a lighter wallet. The package price is $29,815.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
MIG over Moscow . . . for $29,815
Forget trinket shopping and bus tours on your next cruise. Here's a shore excursion you can brag about: soaring 80,000 feet above the earth in a Russian MIG military jet. You can even take the controls and do maneuvers. www.silversea.com offers the high-flying thrills on a three-day excursion from St. Petersburg, Russia. After flying to Moscow for a city tour, you go to Nizhny Novgorod, where, after training, you board the MIG with a test pilot for a one-hour flight. Then it's back to St. Petersburg by train. As souvenirs, you get a flight suit, a film of your big day, lifetime memories — and a lighter wallet. The package price is $29,815.
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