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Self-guided bike tour: EXPLORE LITHUANIA, ŽEMAITIJA NATIONAL PARK with SEA SIDE and the CURONIAN SPIT

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Duration

7 days

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Tour Type

Bike tours in Lithuania

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Group Size

Unlimited

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Languages

English, On request

Overview

This is a 7-day self-guided bike tour to Žemaitija. The total distance by bike is 340 km. The route includes non-busy roads, bicycle roads, paved roads, forest paths, and gravel paths.

Plan of the trip:

On the 1st day, you will arrive in Vilnius and stay overnight.

On the 2nd day, you will explore Vilnius region (distance by bike – 50 km.).

On the 3rd day, you will jump to the train and go to Kaunas, from there ride to Kačerginė, Zapyškis, Kulautuva, come back to Kaunas, and at the end of the day take the bus to Nida (distance by bike – 50 km.).

On the 4th day you will take a long ride: from Nida to Klaipėda, then to Palanga (distance by bike – 90 km.).

On the 5th day, you will ride from Palanga to Kretinga, Plungė, Plateliai and stay there overnight (distance by bike – 90 km.).

On the 6th day, you will leave Plateliai to go to Telšiai and at the end of the day take the bus to Vilnius (distance by bike – 60 km.).

On the 7th day – a departure from Vilnius.

Žemaitija National Park is a park that boasts over 200 cultural heritage sites, of which more than 30 are archaeological monuments: traces of Stone Age settlements, mounds, altar hills, and old burial grounds.

Deep dive into Žemaitija National Park and Lithuania’s seaside by bike. The self-drive tour itinerary is combined with using trains and bikes this way making your trip friendly to our lovely nature. In this route, you will explore Žemaitija National Park including authentic villages, main cities of the region, and different kinds of natural pearls from the rivers and lakes to the Baltic Sea. The tour is combined of the most popular Žemaitija National Park and seaside sites with undiscovered unique spots. Together with Lithuania’s seaside, you will visit the capital of Lithuania- Vilnius.

Price: from 162 EUR per person.

The package includes train and bus tickets, 7-day rent of the bike equipped with a helmet and locker, maps, additional information about the region, and the most interesting places in the area.

We can also provide accommodation for an additional price.

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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Vilnius - the capital of Lithuania, located in the centre of Europe. The city is both contemporary and ancient, rich in architecture with historical monuments, cultural heritage, and has to offer various thematic festivals and entertainments. It is considered that Vilnius is one of the greenest European capitals - a compact city filled with parks and squares.
  • Trakai- picturesque Trakai national park with pine forests and lakes, and the ancient Lithuanian capital - the residence of Grand Dukes of the country.
  • Kačerginė, Kulautuva, and Zapyškis - three little towns located by the Nemunas riverside. Together they make a resort area of Kaunas District, which was famous during the interwar period for the pristine beauty of nature and the curative powers of the health resources they can offer. Today it is an area with exceptional tranquillity, silence, and coziness.
  • Curonian Spit - a pearl of the Baltics, an adornment of the seacoast. The Curonian Spit is a narrow peninsula with sand dunes, separating the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. By the end of 2000, the Curonian Spit territory was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a cultural landscape object.
  • Nida - one of Lithuania’s representatives of the cultural sites and is included in Neringa’s administrative center. Most famous places in Nida: Parnidis dune, Thomas Mann museum, Amber Gallery, Ben sculpture, Fisherman museum, Nida lighthouse, Nida promenade, Wecekrug dune.
  • Palanga - the largest and most famous Lithuanian seaside resort on the Baltic shore, 25 km north from Klaipėda. The resort is very popular because of the broad and spacious bar of clean sand with a long chain of undulating dunes which makes it ideal for sunbathing. The temperature here is higher than the annual average in Lithuania, the clouds here are clearer and the sun's radiation is greater. The amounts of ozone and iodine in the air are relatively high. The town is surrounded by pine forests and stands between two hills that are associated with many legends.
  • Žemaitija National Park including Lake Plateliai - the center of the national park is the Lake Plateliai, which is the deepest, the largest, and most picturesque lake in Samogitia. Wonderful nature, rich history, and distinctive cultural property reveal the uniqueness of the ethnographic region of Samogitia.
  • Cold war museum - located in the former Soviet Union`s complex of ballistic missile silo launch. From 1963 to 1978, four medium-range ballistic missiles SS-4, armed with 2- megaton power thermonuclear warheads here been deployed there.

Included

  • Bike rent for 7 days
  • Information material
  • Maps
  • Train tickets

Excluded

  • Insurance
  • Accommodation
  • Catering
  • Guide
  • Transportation

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    Ieva

    09/11/2020

    Spectacular experience

    All trip was very interesting, but the biggest impression was in Curonian Spit the place and sand dunes looks like from the movie.
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