Vilnius, Lithuania Travel Blogs

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 be ...

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)

... quiet 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 ( ...

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

... city including one day that was possibly the wettest we'd encountered yet. There's some nice sights to see in Vilnius - Cathederal Square (complete with a Greek temple looking catholic church), Gedimas Castle, Gates of Dawn (sounds like a Schwazenegger ...

East Still
Oct 11, 2008 (92 photos)

...   Pre-concieved Ideas   Before I went, I was told that beer was cheap and all the women were beautiful   Vilnius   We took a walk in the evening of arrival. I was expecting to see pissed up Poms everywhere, just like Riga, but ...

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

... travel 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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Nov 12, 2006

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HC party central
Nov 17, 2006 (9 photos)

... 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 the museums of ...

Het Magische Vilnius
Jul 1, 2006 (15 photos)

... , maten en kleuren. De ene nog mooier dan de andere! Deze, samen met de vele andere architecturale meesterwerkjes maken van Vilnius een betoverende stad, die ons zachtjes deed wegdromen. We werden al gauw weer wakker geschud toen we het genocide museum ...

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 ...

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 ...

Namai namuciai
Jul 30, 2007

Issikrovę daiktus ir po greito sluoja-valo-plauna seanso vezam kemperį pas savininką, dar pries tai pagal nuomos sutartį pripildę pilną baką kuro uz paskutinius turimus litus. Savininkas apziūri grązinam&# ...

Isvaziuojam
Aug 3, 2004

Keliamės anksti ir isvaziuojam apie 5 valandą ryto Lenkijos pusėn. Ankstų rytą masinų visiskai nėra, todėl Lietuvą paliekam greitai ir po pusantros valandos mes jau kaimyninės Lenkijos zemėse. ...

Lithuania
Feb 23, 2007 (3 photos)

We caught the Warsaw to Vilnius Train, which took approx 10 hours.   We were almost left stranded on an empty train in the middle of frozen Poland before a kind little old lady told us we needed to be in the  ...

Old Town
Sep 27, 2005 (15 photos)

After arriving in Vilnius in Lithuania, it was mostly a day or two of walking about and discovering the delights of walking through nooks and crannies of the Old Town...small stone streets and old castle walls, etc. I climbed up the old castle hill and ...

Lithuania - good times and bad times
Jun 14, 2006 (6 photos)

... cheap, I will miss that in Germany Going out for Bowling Double Cafe The old town Kaunas The north of Lithuania (coming from Daugavpils, Latvia and crossing the border the road leads you through an amazing landscape with many lakes Trakai ...

The cold that never seems to die...
Feb 11, 2007 (10 photos)

Hey, Alright I'm in Vilnius!  For those of you who are uninclined geographically, Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania...the third and final Baltic country on our tour... The currency here is the lita, one lita is about $2.50 Canadian and prices ...

Vilnius-The day that felt like a week
May 26, 2007

Lithuania! So we are officially in Lithuania! So far I really haven't seen a lot of the country except our hotel. The hotel is amazing. It is so much nicer than I had expected. I got the room assignment with Jessica, from Olivet, and Tamarine from ...

Vilnius
Jul 26, 2007

... amoung other things. Then a club 'Mojito Natskaya' (v. trendy young clientele) then a bar with outdoor seats made from tyres where we were accosted by a crazy drunk young Russian. So Vilnius was very entertaining - would have liked to stay longer.

Vilnius, Beauty and Horror
Aug 17, 2008 (5 photos)

... was being held in the churches. The particular one from which the singing was coming was above the gates itself. This contains Lithuania's most famous icon, The Black Madonna. We could see this from the street through the open window. As we walked along ...

The last of the Baltics
Jul 14, 2009

Next stop after a 5-hour coach ride was the capital of Lithuania. We found our hostel, Vilnius old town hostel, close to the bus and train station. Vilnius old town has many points of interest, but I think it's safe to say we were both suffering a little ...

home
Jun 11, 2005

back home... away from mosquitos at last:)

back home again
Jun 28, 2005

back home for about a week for the expected-to-be-boring school graduation party...

Vilnius
Jul 20, 2006 (24 photos)

... main square and saw the "Stebuklas" (miracle) tile that marks the spot where the human protest chain ended from Tallinn (Estonia) to Vilnius (Lithuania) in 1989. The tile itself did not do a lot for us, but imagining a human chain from here all the way to ...

Vilnius
Aug 18, 2007 (8 photos)

... and potential of the place, which seemed to have completely eluded us in the early evening the day before.   In 2009, Vilnius will become one of the European Capitals of Culture. Preparations are already well under way for this event: roads in the ...