Alanga Palanga
Neries 14 Palanga, 00134 , Lithuania
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The world’s longest spit
... Chris shared a 1 meter long sausage that was apparently delicious.
The next morning we caught a ferry out to the Curonian Spit, which is a giant sand bank 98km long, half owned by Lithuania and half by Russia and drifting slowly into the Baltic Sea by 4m a year. We met with a local guide and boarded a public bus. We stopped at Witches Hill, a section of forest containing wooden sculptures depicting local legends that were carved around 30 years ago and are ...
Klaipeda
... a backpacker who was in the same dorm room as me in Klaipeda and we went exploring together. We checked out the sand dunes, a massive sun dial, and other things like the local lighthouse.
The next morning I rode right down to the Russian border - only about 3 km away and then headed back to the ferry. Apart from getting caught in a few quick rain storms it was a pretty fun few days and also exhausting.
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Curonian Spit & Computer "Spits" It.
... keep circling back to Riga! Well, we went with the plan and booked, then set out to go and visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Curonian Spit we had come to see.
The Spit is a tiny long strip of land owned in the North by Lithuania and in the South by the Kaliningrad Region of Russia, and is a haven for bird, animal and plant life and has some of the World's most precious sand dunes. A ferry takes people ...
We are sailing...we are sailing
... down would be carrying other cars after us above. This, when discharging, meant we would be last off and last to the Lithuanian customs and immigration. If they were anything like the Poles in Gdansk (Danzig) in 1991 then we might be still at the port for some 4 hours after arriving. You can’t argue with these people and they don’t give a damn about first-on-last-off as I spoke to one of the loading officers. That’s when ...
A Day's R&R
... indeed, last year they weren’t used at all, I don’t think. Still, we were making good progress and by 10:45 or so we had the engine on and were approaching the mouth to the canalised river, the Juru Kanalas. We had to keep to one side, avoiding shallows and a wreck that was reputed to be there, as a large vessel overtook us.
We were soon in the Cruise Terminal Harbour, the only area that is open to visiting yachts now that ...



