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SHORE EXCURSIONS KLAIPEDA, LITHUANIA
KLAIPEDA CITY TOUR
Duration: 2.5 hours
Capacity: Unlimited
Klaipeda is the 3rd biggest city in Lithuania, an important
port and Lithuania’s only
gateway to the Baltic Sea. The city has a long history
starting as a fishing village of
ancient Balts and experiencing the arrival of German
Crusaders in the 13th century.
The Crusaders built their castle there in 1252 and formed
the city, in former times
known as Memel.
During the city tour you will see the old Castle territory
and the Old Town with the
fascinating merchants warehouses in the typical German style
with “fachwerk” (half
timbered) decorations. The tour will take you to the Theatre
Square with the Simon
Dach fountain, which is named after the 17th century German
poet, born in
Klaipeda. The fountain portrays a statue of a girl named
Annehen von Tharau, who
is the subject of a famous German wedding and love song.
PALANGA AND KLAIPEDA
Duration: 6 hours
Capacity: 80 persons
The tour will start with a transfer to Palanga, the most
popular Lithuanian sea resort,
boasting beautiful kilometres-long white sandy beaches,
backed by dunes and pine
woods. There you will visit one of the most beautiful parks
in Lithuania, designed by
the French architect Andre and showing more than 150
different trees and shrubs.
After walking through the park you will reach the 19th
century neo-classical style
palace built by the noble Tiszkewicz family, now housing the
Amber Museum. The
exhibit displays the long history of amber, called also
“Lithuanian gold”, showing
large pieces of amber and pieces containing fossilized
insects from the time of
million years ago. You will have a chance to visit the Amber
studio and watch the
amber processing and jewellery making.
After the studio visit the bus will take you back to
Klaipeda where you will see the
Old Town with the fascinating merchants warehouses in the
typical German style
with “fachwerk” (half timbered) decorations and the old
Castle territory. The tour will
take you to the Theatre Square with the Simon Dach fountain,
which is named after
the 17th century German poet, born in Klaipeda. The fountain
portrays a statue of a
girl named Annehen von Tharau, who is the subject of a
famous German wedding
and love song.
LITHUANIAN VILLAGE LIFE
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: 80 persons
The tour starts with a 30-minute drive to Priekule, a small
town in the western part
of Lithuania, founded in the 16th century. The town has rich
architectural and natural
heritage such as Emanual Kant’s great grandfather F.
Shreder’s grave and
interesting German style buildings - monuments. The guests
will visit Agluonenai
village first mentioned in 1540, housing 650 inhabitants at
present. The visitors will
see old houses as well as buildings from the collective farm
period, visit
ethnographic farmstead museum, intermingle with locals in
the crafts market, taste
herbal tea with cheese and honey as well as enjoy
traditional Lithuanian folk song
and dance performance.
GLIMPSES ON THE CURONIAN SPIT
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: Unlimited
In the year 2000 the Curonian spit was declared a UNESCO
World Heritage Site as
one of the most beautiful and unique landscapes in Europe.
It is a natural wonder
with fishermen's settlements and resorts, golden dunes,
ethnographic architecture
monuments and the summerhouse of Thomas Mann.
The tour starts with a short crossing of the Curonian Lagoon
by ferry. Soon you
reach the Curonian Spit, a sandy stretch of land, 98 km long
and varying in width
from 400 m to just a few kilometres between the waters of
the Curonian Lagoon and
the Baltic Sea. It is a great holiday site, full of the
sweet scent of pines, water and
ozone. Formed some 6000 years ago as sand accumulated in
shallow waters near
the coast, it is an extremely romantic area today with its
fishing villages developed
as resorts.
LITHUANIAN PARADISE - CURONIAN SPIT
Duration: 7 hours
Capacity: 70 persons
In the year 2000 the Curonian spit was declared a UNESCO
World Heritage Site as
one of the most beautiful and unique landscapes in Europe.
It is a natural wonder
with fishermen's settlements and resorts, golden dunes,
ethnographic architecture
monuments and the summerhouse of Thomas Mann.
The tour starts with a short crossing of the Curonian Lagoon
by ferry. Soon you
reach the Curonian Spit, a sandy stretch of land, 98 km long
and varying in width
from 400 m to just a few kilometres, between the waters of
the Curonian Lagoon
and the Baltic Sea. It is a great holiday site, full of the
sweet scent of pines, water
and ozone. Formed some 6000 years ago as sand accumulated in
shallow waters
near the coast, it is an extremely romantic area today with
its fishing villages
developed as resorts.
You will visit Juodkrante, famous for the Hill of Witches
where one can see wooden
statues of legendary heroes in a dense pinewood and Nida,
the resort of serene
beauty. It is noted for its magnificent 50 - 60 metres high
dunes, the Lithuanian
Sahara, attracting visitors since the middle of the 19th
century. The German writer
Thomas Mann had a summer house built here, which now houses
a museum and
has remained a meeting place for writers and intellectuals
ever since. After the
lunch in Nida the bus will take you back to Klaipeda port. |
