Lithuania Travel Blogs

Stalin World
May 20, 2009 (10 photos)

... were deported via cattle cargo train as free slave labor in Siberia to help develope the infrastructures. Military personel of Lithuania were killed to prevent any chance of rebellion. All the people in Lithuania were stripped of their freedom of speech ...

Warsaw to Vilnius
May 27, 2004

... Augustow a tourist destination. It feels like a tourist destination with a large square and outdoor cafes. I crossed the border into Lithuania on Monday. The Polish police nodded at me through the window and I was meet at the Lithuanian border by a ...

Trakai National Park
May 21, 2009 (15 photos)

... a glimps into the prison slife under KGB. The KGB used bugging devise to eavdrop on foreign tourists and citizens of Lithuania SSR to prevent any negative comment against the Soviets. The prisons shows confinement room, tourture room with padded walls the ...

I dreamt of tractors and donkey carts...
Dec 8, 2006 (17 photos)

Out of the three capitals we visited during this trip, I probably expected the least from Vilnius. In fact I think I dreamt of no more than tractors and donkey carts roaming the streets on a grey snowless December day. That just shows how ignorant I can ...

Baroque Old Town
May 19, 2009 (15 photos)

     I have arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania since last night. Didn't really have too much time for sightseeing before sunset. So I checked into my hostel and had a nice chat with several fellow travellers from around the world and shared ...

Warsaw to Vilnius
May 27, 2004

... Augustow a tourist destination. It feels like a tourist destination with a large square and outdoor cafes. I crossed the border into Lithuania on Monday. The Polish police nodded at me through the window and I was meet at the Lithuanian border by a ...

5 long nights in Lithuania
Aug 28, 2005 (5 photos)

... pleasant but probably would have been better if I'd been feeling abit sharper. Klaipeda was promptly followed through with Vilnius, Lithuania's capital and home to the turbulence in the early 90's. Being the only city in the Baltic states (Estonia, ...

The 'New Prague'.. There goes the neighbourhood..
Jun 4, 2006 (10 photos)

The 'New Prague'? Vilnius Vilnius, well another day and another Baltic Country's capital. And it's another pearler. Without wanting to sound like a broken record, what are the good folk of these three Baltic countries doing right ? It's another city ...

Walking in a winter wonderland
Mar 4, 2006 (9 photos)

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost - J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings · Trakai, Lithuania · Prague time +1hr · Days to get to Prague - 4 Lakes, castles and snow. Loads of snow We wanted to do a side trip ...

East Still
Oct 11, 2008 (92 photos)

And then we attempted to drive to Vilnius. We opened the GPS up, it new Vilnius, but not via the way we wanted to go, so we gave it the flick, pulled out the map, and away we went. A couple hours later, we were fighting the traffic in Vilnius, and ...

Holy holy Vilnius (Old Town 3 of 6)
Mar 4, 2006 (10 photos)

... to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home - Dagobert D. Runes, US writer · Vilinus, Lithuania. · Prague time +1hr · Days to get to Prague - 4 The difference of Vilnius So here's a question for ya. It's a ...

Lock in
Aug 24, 1999 (4 photos)

I had to get up at three bloody o'clock to catch my bus to Lithuania. I panicked a bit when I discovered that the doors to the hotel were locked solid shut with no one at reception. Luckily I managed to wake someone up and then was rushing in the dark past ...

Crosses
Oct 10, 2008 (78 photos)

... trying at least to see the capitals, and as we had earlier in the year compared Riga to Ukraine, it was time to see what Lithuania had to offer. My friends who had been said that it was the Jewboy price that you like, and luckily for us, Flyandscare fly to ...

The Cornerstones Of Hock / Cat Travel
Sep 24, 2006 (5 photos)

Well in three days Chris and I have managed only one of the six reccomended sights of Vilnius, a pretty poor sculpture of some rocker called Frank Zappa. We did manage to stop at the "Hill of Crosses" a few kilometres out of Siauliai on the way down from ...

Stalin World
Oct 12, 2008 (76 photos)

After leaving Trakai, we headed off South. We had 115 K's to reach what could possibly be Liths best kept secret. Some know it as Gruto Parkas, but I only knew of it as Stalin World !!!   Stalin World   Think of Stalin, and you think of how ...

Another Castle
Oct 13, 2008 (64 photos)

As usual we were driving blind, but before we went, Lucy was told by a local Lith girl who she works with, "if you are in Liths, make sure you go to Trakai Castle". And being the tourists that we both are, how could we resist !!!   Trakai Castle & ...

Lithuania
Dec 16, 2000 (4 photos)

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Student central
Nov 14, 2006 (1 photos)

It was from Vilnius to Kaunas that I embarked on a maiden voyage. The important thing about going to Kaunas was that I would be hitchhiking for the first time. I was always a little wary about hitchhiking (HH), not because I was scared of meeting a psycho ...

HC party central
Nov 17, 2006 (9 photos)

... the north of the city that looks like it is twisted, but it is meant to be like that obviously. The genocide museum of Lithuania is situated in Vilnius and I went there alone which turned out to be quite a creepy experience. The top was like many of ...

Siauliai And The Hill Of Crosses
Jul 15, 2006 (6 photos)

... bus to Siauliai - a town famous for its nearby Hill of Crosses. Our guidebook described Siauliai as the fourth largest city in Lithuania - which we were surprised at - it felt like a small country town! We wanted to put our luggage into storage at the ...

Klaipeda
Jul 15, 2006

... smaller feel to it and was much quieter than we had expected. This was, after all the third largest city in Lithuania. We passed parks filled with statues and people out enjoying the outdoors. The main pedestrian street was under going construction work, ...

The Curonian Spit
Jul 17, 2006 (21 photos)

We woke early and packed our daypacks for a night on the Curonian Spit. We had organised to leave our big packs at the hostel, but when we were ready to leave the hostess was still fast asleep... Glenn had to wake her to drop our stuff off! Oops. Our ...

Het Magische Vilnius
Jul 1, 2006 (15 photos)

Na een hellelange busrit waar we gekraakt van afstapten, arriveerden we al snel in onze muffige guesthouse. Hier kregen we geen kamer, maar zowaar een mini appartementje. Tijdens ons kleine ontbijt (koffie en crackers) in de gemeenschappelijke ruimte ...

Intro
Feb 28, 2007

Įvadas Pasakojimas apie tai, kaip 6 turistams is Lietuvos pavyko bandymas sturmuoti Prancūzijos Rivieros didmiesčius ir virsukalnes. Sis pasakojimas yra daugiau prisiminimai nei tikras pasakojimas. Data 2007 07 20 - 2007 07 30 ...

Its Spitting
Sep 10, 2006

... to the Curonian Spit, a thin strip of land that covers the Lithuanian coast. Although it is not actually connected to Lithuania, the segment adjacent to it belongs to Lithuania and the rest, including the base belongs to the Russian province of Kaliningrad ...

Kaunas, Lithuania
Aug 12, 2006 (2 photos)

... really good, especially all the info boards telling the folk tales and a sculpture of stalin and hitler as devils on a graveyard representing lithuania. i took a photo of it which i'll try and put up later today if i do creep back to the apartment to get ...

Hill of crosses
May 31, 2008

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Changing plans
Jun 1, 2008 (12 photos)

Our first point of call in Lithuania was The Hill of Crosses, near the town of Siauliai. This is a strange little place where Lithuanians have been putting crosses on a hill as memorials to loved ones who have either died or back during the soviet reign ...

Soviet Land
Jun 2, 2008 (8 photos)

1/6 We left that afternoon to go to a little spa town called Druskininkai, not for the spas, but for a place called Gruto Parkas. A man who had made his fortune by farming mushrooms had decided to go around the whole country and buy Soviet memorabilia ...