Vila Ramybe Palanga
Vytauto 54 Palanga, 5720 , 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.
... back to our hotel to see if we could extend one night, then back to the travel agent only to find the ferry tickets had been sold!
Now we had extended our hotel and we needed a plan B. Sonata from Krantis Travel offered another idea. We take a different ferry with cabins from Riga in Latvia and catch a bus there the next day, in time for the sailing. Back to Riga??. If you have been following our stories you will ...
We are sailing...we are sailing
... what a prelude Kaunas was to be. Kaunas was the capital of this tiny ( but the biggest of three) Baltic States from 1920-39 when Vilnius was under the poles and with the Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact the country came under the control of either the Soviets or the Nazis. The history of the country is one of a 'waif' never able to defend itself (though fiercely trying at great cost of human life) and being brutally abused and tortured by ...
A Day's R&R
... done. One of the main features of the town are the significant ramparts that stretch in all directions, the fortifications were very extensive and due to the efforts of the Teutonic Knights in 1404, when they took over the town and called it Memel. This name was retained until it became part of Lithuania in 1923. After the war and being part of the USSR and with access to the ice free Baltic, the port area was massively developed and the evidence of this ...


