Lithuania Travel

It’s not a secret that there are a lot of opportunities for recreation for any taste in Lithuania. It has never been a revelation for the countries of the former social camp (first of all for the republics of the former USSR). Even being a part of the Soviet Union Lithuanian SSR had quiet a good income from tourism. Western tourists started to visit this country comparatively not a long time ago. Basically, the Germans, the Scandinavians and the Dutch tend to have rest in Lithuania. Their favorite resorts are situated on the Baltic Sea: Palanga, Nida and Klaipeda. You can often meet the English here. Frankly speaking for many of them Lithuania is first of all a good ground to have a business trip. It’s considered profitable to invest money into the Lithuanian industry in England.

Traditionally Lithuania is famous for three kinds of tourism: seaside tourism, health or spa-tourism and agri-tourism, which is becoming more and more popular. So, Lithuanian spa-resort Druskininkai gathered an entire collection of Prizes of all possible European tourist associations for the quality of its health service and the recently opened water park is declared as one of the biggest in Europe. Marine Palanga and continental Birshtonas also tend not to lag behind the “trendsetter” so they create multi-functional spa-centers. Klaipeda is considered to be one of the centers of yachting on the Baltic Sea, where regattas are annually organized.

Numerous farmsteads and cottages along the Neman channel and on the outskirts of the cities offer traditional Lithuania to all the guests where except for the “full immersion in a Lithuanian way of life” a tourist is offered horse-riding, fishing and cycling excursions.

It goes without saying that the city tourism and weekend trips can’t be left without attention. The leaders here are Vilnius and Kaunas. Although it can be strange but weekend tours are popular during the whole year and it is in the highest demand on the New Year’s Eve and Christmas. Kaunas attracts sports fans’ attention and first of all basketball amateurs. It’s Kaunas that has a Lithuanian national property – basketball club “Zhalgiris”.