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The world’s longest spit

A travel blog entry by bethandanthony

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... 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 ...

Cycling the Curonian Spit

A travel blog entry by alexjasonworld

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... have), so that meant retracing our tracks to where we started, but that didn't matter, it's incredibly beautiful to ride through and we'd gladly do it over and over again. Our obsession with the forest is growing and there is something quite magical about moving through it at bike speed. The perfectly straight trees flicker in ...

Hiding in the woods

A travel blog entry by cariverga

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... 1071;-то к север 85;ой приро 76;е отнош 91;сь без восто 88;га, и с задач 77;й "Let the curonian spit soothe your soul" – как обеща 85;о ...

Klaipeda

A travel blog entry by jameslawler

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... before and ended up in one of their spare bedrooms in the beach side apartment at a fairly reasonable price. The old lady that owned the apartment couldn't speak English, but could speak Lithuanian, Russian and German. Using some basic German (with help from my Europe phrasebook) we were able to communicate.



I didn't stay in the apartment long as I only had one afternoon to explore the small town. I ...

Curonian Spit & Computer "Spits" It.

A travel blog entry by heatheravan

This is a top pick!
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... this was going to create difficulties as we were heading to expensive Sweden. Oh well, bite the bullet and see what can be done on arrival.

Footnote: Curonian Spit is UNESCO World Heritage Listed.

Travel Recommendation: Sonata of Krantas Travel, Tel 8 46 395111 www.krantis.lt or, travel@krantis.lt . Sonata was very helpful and went the second mile to help us find a way to Sweden, when all the ferries were ...

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