Lithuanian Tours

While summer is not over - some impressions from visiting Žemaitija National Park.
Lake Plateliai is one of the largest in Lithuania surrounded by pure nature, forests, meadows and ancient heritage.
Plan your next year trip to Lithuania to explore beauty secrets of our country

Summer impressions from Liepaja
It's Sunday and the town is not so busy but the views are gorgeous

Exploring Lithuania - Vištytis Holy Wellspring
There are still numerous stunning places in Lithuania that vaguely any of foreign tourists have seen.
Holy Wellspring on the shore (almost) of the Lake Vištytis is surrounded by another Hill of Crosses. See some views of this unknown sacred site and consider to visit it when you are crossing Lithuanian - Polish border. It's only 40 minutes drive on Lithuanian side and slightly less on Polish side. Just Polish roads in this area are so narrow and curved that it could be a problem for large tourist bus but also joy and discovery for private car.
Come and discover this spot!

Music at the Castle of Medininkai
New Festival is being born in the suburbs of Vilnius. Series of live music concerts in being organized at the Medininkai Castle.
We participated Polish musicians Maja Babyszka and Adam Golicky concert and enjoyed listening Sephardic songs in modern interpretation plus some new jazzy music.
And the Festival concerts will last through August. Check the dates of you are in Vilnius.
We hope that new tradition will go on next year.
And Medininkai Castle is a site that worth visiting even without music just 30 kilometers from downtown Vilnius.

Lithuania celebrates
July 6th - King Mindaugas Coronation Day
July 6th also the final day of 100 year anniversary Song Festival
Enjoy some views of Song Festival delegates parade

Finally Lithuania is featured on Michelin guide with 4 restaurants awarded one star and 26 restaurants listed! Come and taste!

Lithuania's First MICHELIN Guide Is Unveiled! Discover the first restaurants to be added to the selection, from Michelin Stars and great value Bib Gourmands to sustainable Green Stars

Nice evening beginning of June in Vilnius
Nice sky, nice artists at the Culture Night and nice new terrace on the top of the Energy and Technology Museum. Enjoy visiting Vilnius

Vilnius in May
Our beautiful city in fresh green.
If you didn't make to Vilnius in May there are still 4 more months to enjoy high season in Vilnius
Here's the link to your fun in Vilnius
https://www.lithuaniantours.com/Weekend-in-vilnius

Some impressions from traditional Street Music Day in Vilnius
Singing, playing and dancing - fun for the artists and for the visitors

Blossoming Vilnius
Spring is long this year in Lithuania. From March till May the nature shares with us amazing sights in the city. Plan your trip to Vilnius anytime and you will experience and enjoy the beauty of our city. Views from Vilnius University Botany Gardens, Belmontas, Žvėrynas and city center

Vilnius is filled with events and happenings even low season. Siberian squill blossoming at Bernardines Cemetery in Užupis is one of attractive signs of Spring that draw local people and tourists to enjoy blue coating of the cemetery grounds.
Come to Vilnius any time of the year and you will discover something unexpected.

Easter morning on the 3 Crosses Hill in Vilnius.
Listening sounds of the Holy Mass at the Cathedral; enjoying views of red roof Old Town of Vilnius
Happy Easter everybody!

Palm Sunday in Vilnius. See how different and unique Easter Palms that are made in Lithuania. You can choose taking colorful Vilnius region Easter Palms or traditional rest of Lithuania Juniper Easter Palms.
By the way, we organize Vilnius region Easter Palms making classes. Contact us for details.

Famous Lithuanian traditional St Casimir Fair 2024 have started! 420 year tradition is probably the most impressive this kind of event in Vilnius. If you didn't get to St Casimir Fair (Lithuanian - Kaziukas Fair) plan your trip next year. Sure you will have unforgettable impressions!

Christmas time in Liepaja, Latvia
Third largest Latvian city Liepaja is not so popular among the international tourists. Maybe except Lithuanians:) But it is very beautiful historic city with well equipped long beach, important port, filled with heritage and active cultural life and very nicely decorated for Christmas.
We wish you to come to Liepaja and discover this hidden gem.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024!

Merry Christmas!
Warmest seasonal greetings from Liepaja, Latvia

Beginning of November in Vilnius. Sunset view from one of favorite observation points - Subačiaus. Whenever you come to Vilnius - our city is full of magic.

Enjoy views of Trakai at the end of October. We had warm weather and nice clouds to make some pictures to memorize late autumn trip to Trakai

Vilnius celebrating Autumn Equinox 2023
It was impressive show on the bank of the River Neris. Actually live fire is somehow more impressive thank sophisticated laser shows which are organized quite frequently in Vilnius

Kuldiga Old Town is on UNESCO World Heritage List!
Latvia's town Kuldiga absolutely deserved this recognition. A town with rich history preserved urban structure and spirit of older times. When you walk through Kuldiga you discover yourself in ancient settings enjoying log and brick buildings unexpected street curves and parks and Venta river with one of the widest waterfalls in Europe. Come and discover this unique town still not known for wider public.
Here are some pictures from our latest trip to Kuldiga

Kaunas Modernist Architecture included into World Heritage List during 45th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee!
Kaunas - the interim capital of Lithuania during 1919 - 1939 converted from provincial town into modern capital city with strong economic and cultural growth.
See some examples of the buildings that brought Kaunas international recognition

It took 4 years to implement the project – busy weekend in Tallinn for big VIP group. Our Egle Jakubenaite was recalculating the tour, contacting all the suppliers and the trip was postponed from 2020 to 2021 to 2022 due to the COVID-19, the war and it was made finally – in August 2023. Here’s our client’s impression

Our impressions from Hiiumaa - second largest Estonian island
We made almost 200 kilometers driving all around Hiiumaa. Not so big distance but it was not enough one day to visit all the sites along the route. The main highlight of Hiiumaa - Kopu lighthouse built in 16th century and still operating. After climbing long steep stairs you will see majestic view of pine forest covered island with some incluses of the sights of human presence. All in all Hiiumaa is a discovery for lighthouse lovers. Apart from the main attraction we visited Ristna and Tahkuna lighthouses. Tahkuna is located on the North East edge of Hiiumaa and there Riga Gulf meet Finnish gulf and Baltic sea. Plus there is impressive memorial to the children that died at the ferry MS Estonia sinking in 1994.
At the capital of Hiiumaa - Kardla town - we enjoyed local architecture of private and public houses, fisherman sculpture with the crow reminded us of similar tradition in some arts of Lithuania when local people were catching and eating crows.
2 kind of weird attractions - Hill of crosses and Wooden Eiffel tower and attraction park. Estonian Hill of Crosses has nothing to do with Lithuanian site and it reminds more like pagan installation instead of Christian landmark. You have to see it yourself to mane your own opinion. We went to see wooden Eiffel Tower replica and we found ourselves in creepy attraction park. Maybe somebody would enjoy the experience.
For hikers there are nice nature trails on the island. We walked very picturesque Orjaku strip with juniper and varied bushes fields.
On the departure you will have time waiting for the boat and you can enjoy Ranna Ella and The old man and the goat sculptures
Hiiumaa is featured on our tour
https://www.lithuaniantours.com/estonian-islands-fly-and-drive-tour

Visiting Estonian Women Island - Kihnu
3 by 6 kilometers island situated South East of Saaremaa island and takes a bit more than an hour to get there on a ferry from Munalaiu port. Kihnu is famous for their women. They say that in older days when all men went fishing all land works were in the hands of Kihnu women. They could do everything including digging a grave hole for themselves.
If you are lucky you can see women in folk dress driving ancient motorcycles and showing the island for tourists. We were not so lucky. We were told at the museum that you can enjoy these sights on weekends or ordering sightseeing tour in advance.
Kihnu island is great to explore on a bike that you can rent right at the port. The main attractions are Kihnu lighthouse, local museum, Orthodox church and beautiful Nordic nature with juniper fields, and rocky shore.
The island with some 600 inhabitants has close to the cafeterias (the call it kohvik) offering local food but probably not so many fish dishes as one might expect. We didn't find menu in English but waitresses easily translated it from Estonian.
Is you are looking for a relaxed day on a bike exploring new sights - Kihnu is great for you.

Lithuanian Tours at Destinations Exchange Europe by ETOA

Some impressions from the Pink Soup Fest that was held on June 10th in Vilnius.
The crazy event was dedicated to honor probably the most healthy dish of Lithuanian cuisine - Šaltibarščiai (world known as Lithuanian Pink Soup). You could taste and learn everything about Šaltibaršiai, you could sledge Pink Soup path for fun of you and surrounding people. Nice and educational event for young people enjoying summer time in Vilnius.

Enjoy some romantic views of the sunset in Liepaja, Latvia. Maybe Baltic sea seems too cold for swimming but you can have nice walks along the long beach, bike ride etc

Tired of overcrowded world renown destinations. It's time to discover Baltic countries! And we would like to highlight this time Kuldiga - one of the gems of Latvia.
Kuldiga was mentioned for the first time in 1242. The town was Capital of the Duchy of Courland in 16th-17th centuries.
The town is famous for the second widest waterfalls in Europe. Kuldiga's Rumba (waterfall) is just 2 meter high but 240 meters wide with picturesque banks of the River Venta.
Here were built ships on which Courland sailors established colonies in Tobago (1637) and St Andrews Island on the River Gambia (1651). When looking at the River Venta nobody can believe that this shallow river could be a house of the shipyard producing oceanic ships.
There are much more history facts about this town - come and learn.
Today Kuldiga is a large collection of architectural heritage and nature beauty. Exploring curved cobblestone streets with wooden, brick and even fachwerk houses you will feel like getting back to 18th or 19th century. For your pleasure - delicious Latvian pastries, varied food restaurants will give you enough strength to spend full day in this historical and lively town.
See some of our memories from visiting Kuldiga when lilac blossoms.
Kuldiga is featured on our our tour
https://www.lithuaniantours.com/little-gems-of-latvia-and-lithuania

Some views of UNESCO World Heritage list site Kernave May evening. If you want romantic getaway - visit Kernave - four hill forts a lot of climbing the hills and enjoying views of River Neris valley (Pajauta valley).