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Combined for those bored of traditional sightseeings. For nature lovers or people with other special interests. We will arrange any tour to please your interests and will give you many ideas. Of course you will meet less tourists wandering around at these spots...
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Visit to Kretinga – spiritual and cultural center of the northwestern part of Lithuania. The tour includes a visit to the Kretinga Museum, which was found in the former Kretinga estate of Count Tiskevicius. Kretinga Museum exhibits the history, traditions, crafts, and lifestyle of this part of Lithuania. In addition, the tours will include a visit to an exotic winter garden of the former palace with an all year flourishing plants and nice water cascades, housing a cozy café. Also, a visit to the most notable architectural monument of the town – Church ensemble and functioning Franciscan monastery, which are surrounded by a nice botanical garden.
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This is one tour feturing two unusual places: Rock museum open air exposition resembles a natural rock field. Here you will find virtually every kind of rock that one can find on the territory of Lithuania (altogether 103 kinds).At Orvydas family homestead, described by many as an unforgettable experience, you will see strange ensembles of stone sculptures – large rocks and boulders, household utensils from this and previous centuries, wooden icons and other details.
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Molėtai Astronomy Observatory is one of the most important observatpry in Lithuania, exploring sky and it's bodies. At Astronomy observatory visitors get information about achievements of the world and Lithuanian astronomy, take a look at the telescopes and their equipment. They also have a lecture, illustrated by wonderful photographs of various sky objects: planets, stars, nebulas, star clusters and galaxies, accompanied by space music. On the southern wall of the observatory a sundial is mounted. Near the telescope domes an exhibition of the sacred mythological stones is presented.
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Located in Southern part of Lithuania, Dzūkija National park is famous for wild forests, mushrooms and berries, authentic villages and friendliness of local people. In the Park thera are many etnographical villages and many attractions like Merkinė mound with superb view, Liškiava with its Chuch, Perloja - historic site, Pirčiupiai, Valkininkai and many other small villages with their histories. Near Dzūkija national park is famous Lithuanian resort - Druskininkai.
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Lenin, Stalin, Dzerzhinsky. They once stood proudly in town hall squares. Now they have a new home in the Grutas forest near Lithuanian spa resort Druskininkai where the memorial Soviet Sculptures Park is established. The exposition of the park consists of over 50 ideological sculptures. The Grūtas Park exposition discloses the negative content of the Soviet ideology and its impact on the value system. The aim of this exposition is to provide an opportunity for Lithuanian people, visitors coming to our country as well as future generations to see the naked Soviet ideology which suppressed and hurt the spirit of our nation for many decades.
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Aukštaitija National Park is the bigest and the most popular National park in Lithuania, covering an area of 30 thousand hectare and famous for its numerous lakes and unspoiled nature. Solitary findings indicate, that in a present territory of the Aukštaitija National Park people lived already in 9-8 century B.C. Human activities for longer than ten thousand years left many traces, and cultural heritage of many generations is one of the most valuable in the park today. Here one can learn about life of ancestors starting from the Stone Age in centre of National Park - Palušė, about their fights with crusaders from Livonia Order during medieval ages and about customs of Aukštaitija ethnic region in 18th -20th centuries. Many historical, archaeological and architecture monuments reminds about the old times and the great past of human kind in this region.
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