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Just wanted to say "Thank you" for all the arrangements that you made for us.  We had a wonderful (short) visit to Vilnius.  The hotel staff at Barbacan Palace were very helpful and our accomodations were very nice.  Olga, our tour guide was excellent and gave us a wonderful day of history, information and beautiful sights. 
Thank you!
Suzanne Carroll
Agoura Hills, CA USA
2003.07.10

Sightseeing in Lithuania - highlights

 

Classical "must see" sights. Most popular among tourists, introducing to main historic and cultural locations and objects in Lithuania.

VISIT LITHUANIA offers :



Sculpture park of the Centre Europe (3 hours) Print E-mail

The park is located 20 km from Vilnius in picturesque surroundings of Vilnius outskirts. Every year since 1993 artists from Lithuania all over the world (Japan, USA, Ireland, Greece, UK, Hungary, etc) have come here to create this park. The result is a collection of over 50 sculptures including the ones created by M.Abakonowitz, D.Oppenheim, and Sol de Witt. The sculptures are permanently exhibited amidst rolling hills and woodlands dotted with natural springs.

Europos Parkas (European Park) is a meeting place with an intense and international atmosphere. Europos Parkas – the open-air art museum in the geographic centre of the European continent offers excellent facilities for conferences, workshops, meetings and other events. The unique Education Centre integrated into the landscape by being built partially into a man-made hill with a roof covered with grass. The huge windows eliminate boundary between the nature outside and inside space of the building. In connections with an event at Europos Parkas, the museum can offer a range of advantages indoors as well as outdoors.

 
Visit to the Hill of Crosses Print E-mail

Located 12 km from Siauliai, by Vilnius - Riga highway the hill with more than 50 000 crosses stands as a memorial to the spirit of the Lithuanian people.

 

 
Tour to Nida Print E-mail

A walk on the Hill of Witches located in Juodkrante village, 19 km away from Klaipeda, and decorated with numerous wooden sculptures based on Lithuanian legends and folk tales. Further drive to Nida (30 km), a small old fishermen village famous for its majestic sea-shore sand dunes, Thomas Mann's summer house, neo-gothic church and old ethnographic cemetery.

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Tour to Palanga Print E-mail

Palanga is an international seacoast resort for active recreation and rehabilitation treatment oriented towards an industry of wide range of entertainment with a developed modern social and service infrastructure.

Vacationers come here to escape their daily urbanized routines and gain strength from natural resources: the sun, sea water and fresh pine-forests' air.

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Klaipeda city tour (2 hours) Print E-mail


Lithuania's third biggest city - a historic seaport and resort.
Old Town of Klaipeda with the Theatre square and the statue of a girl Ann from Tharau, numerous old streets and buildings, Linden street with the old post-office, Mazvydas Sculpture Park.

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Tour to Kernave – ancient capital of Lithuania ( 4 hours ) Print E-mail

The village located on the banks of the river Neris(35 km from Vilnius) has been known as the capital of Lithuania before Trakai and Vilnius. Archeological excavations uncovered a medieval settlement dating back to the 12th century. Kernave’s Archaeological and Historical Museum/ Reserve contains several precious exhibits. In Kernave you will be able to climb 5 mounds and enjoy a superb breath- taking view of the river valley graced by the bends of the river Neris. Few great traditional events are held in Kernave every year: on 23d of June - ‘Midsummer’s day’ - with the night-fires on the mounds, traditional dances and songs, and on the 5th – 7th of July - ‘Days of live archeology’ - showing re-created handicrafts, life style, heritage of a spiritual culture of the early middle ages.

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Country life museum in Rumsiskes (6 hours) Print E-mail

Located 80 km from Vilnius the open-air museum offers acquaintance with the 18-19th century architecture, traditions, crafts and the way of life of different ethnographic regions of the country.

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Full day tour to Kaunas Print E-mail

The second largest city and the capital of Lithuania between the World Wars.
The tour includes: the Old Town of Kaunas with its St George's church, castle ruins, Theological seminary, the Town Hall Square, the Jesuit church, the Cathedral, the Church of Vytautas and the Perkunas House (no inside visits); a walk on the central street- Freedom avenue - bustling with street vendors, musicians, full of cafes and souvenir shops;

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Half-day tour to Trakai (4 hours) Print E-mail

Located 28 km from Vilnius, the former capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania is now famous for its 15th century insular castle housing an exhibition on prehistoric findings and the 17-18th century applied art, the way of life of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes, and the Karaites, brought to Lithuania from the Crimea.

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Visit to Ponar (Paneriai) Print E-mail

Now the site of mass executions is commemorated by the memorial to the victims of the Lithuanian holocaust and a small museum displaying the tragedy of Paneriai.

Located six miles outside the city of Vilnius. Here in the Paneriai Forest, close to the railroad tracks, the Nazis killed and burried in the pits over 100,000 civilians, 70,000 of them Jews. Now the site of mass executions is commemorated by the memorial to the victims of the Lithuanian holocaust and a small museum displaying the tragedy of Paneriai.


Rates of all tours, in EURO, include guide service and vehicle, per group.

Guide & Car
(1-2 persons)

Guide & Minibus
(3-5 persons)
Guide & Minibus
(6-12 persons)
Entrance fees
(per person)
100 110 145 1.5
 
Vilnius - Jerusalem of Lithuania ( 3 hours ) Print E-mail
Jewish Heritage sightseeing of the famous city of Vilnius once called Jerusalem of Lithuania. The tour takes to the streets of the former Ghetto area with its monuments to the victims of the Holocaust, the Jewish Cemetery with the mausoleum of the world renowned Gaon Rav Eliyahu and the tombs of the last Vilna rabbis alongside the victims of the ghetto. The tour includes a visit to the Choral Synagogue, the only remaining synagogue that was left intact.
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Half-day tour of Vilnius (3 hours) Print E-mail

Tour of Historical Old Town of Vilnius by car and on foot: Vilnius Cathedral and its square, the University campus, Pilies street with the 16-18th century historical and architectural monuments, Gothic corner of Vilnius with St Anne's and Bernardine churches, the former Town Hall square, the Dawn Gate with a miraculous icon of Virgin Mary, the 17th century Baroque church of St Peter and Paul.

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Prepaid Individual Transfer: AVIS - MOST FAVOURABLE MINILEASE CONDITIONS & PRICES
  no trouble with money exchange upon arrival,
 
no need to take care of taxi  search, no language problems
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The driver will wait for you at arrival hall with your name on the card, will help you with luggage and will safely transfer you to agreed place.
One way transfer price 25 Euro per car only! Please fill in the  Transfer Reservation Form and we will contact you within 24 business hours with confirmation.

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