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Vilnius Hotels & Sightseeing - Lithuania
Revel in century’s old traditions, crafts, architecture and food in the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The region presents striking scenery, untouched landscapes and grand palaces reflecting the might of empires now past. Journey through Vilnius, one of the largest historical towns in eastern Europe.
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SIGHTSEEING
VILNIUS CITY TOUR
Duration: 3 hrs

During this tour you will travel through the old town where you can feel the atmosphere of the city’s history from the 16th-19th centuries while walking along its narrow winding streets or visiting exciting architectural and historic monuments, including Vilnius Cathedral, and the elegant St Anne’s Church. See Vilnius University – the famous centre of science and enlightenment since its very foundation in 1579, and the Gate of Dawn with a miraculous icon of Virgin Mary. The tour involves a driving section as well as walking in the old part of town.
2 people A$234pp; 1 person A$469pp
TRAKAI
Duration: 4 hrs

A pleasant tour to Trakai, 28 km from Vilnius - the ancient capital of the Lithuanian Grand Principality, famous for its red-brick Gothic castle of the early 15th century, built as a mighty fortress against the Crusaders and later serving as the residence of Lithuanian Dukes. Standing on an island in Lake Galve, the castle now houses an interesting museum relating a history of Lithuania, famous in the times of the Grand Duke Vytautas when the country borders stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Enjoy a small town of Trakai situated mostly on a two km long peninsula with attractive old wooden houses, mostly built by Karaites, a Judaist sect brought by Duke Vytautas from the Crimea.
2 people A$270pp; 1 person A$531pp
KAUNAS
Duration: From 6 up to 8 hrs

Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city, located 100 km from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania between the two World Wars when Vilnius was invaded by Poland. Kaunas city tour shows the main attractions of the Old Town: Kaunas Castle, at the confluence of the two largest Lithuanian rivers - the Nemunas and the Neris where the town was founded, the Town Hall Square with the 15th-16th century merchants’ houses around and the 17th century white Baroque Town Hall dominating in the centre of it, a nearby majestic Kaunas cathedral- the main sanctuary of Kaunas, the Gothic Vytautas Church built in 1400 on the Nemunas riverbank. A further drive will take you to the central part of Kaunas with a linden-tree lined Freedom Avenue, the most popular street of the city and to Unity Square with Eternal Flame and monuments to Lithuania’ s independence. Chiurlionis Art Museum housing the paintings of the outstanding Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Chiurlionis, a philosopher-in-art who painted and composed music at the turn of the 19th-20th century. Devils’ Museum with a large collection of devils’ art, which was started by the painter Zmuidzinavicius as a hobby from the gifts – devils’ statuettes, people gave him. In Lithuanian folklore the devil is a ridiculous and awkward figure, very popular, so the museum’s devils collection is constantly growing and always welcome.
2 people A$384pp; 1 person A$749pp
RUMSISKES OPEN AIR MUSEUM
Duration: 5 hrs

Situated between Vilnius to Kaunas (about 30 km from Kaunas), lies a vast area of an impressive ethnographic open-air museum of 18th-20th century Lithuanian peasant life. As Lithuania itself, it is divided into 4 ethnographic regions, each with distinct traditions of its own in architecture and customs. Rumsiskes farmsteads, furniture, farm tools, colours and patterns of woven fabrics inside the houses create a perfect picture of the country’s rural life of many centuries ago.
2 people A$326pp; 1 person A$643pp
 
PRICES & DATES
Barbacan Palace Hotel***
from $81
Comfort Vilnius***
from $58
Radisson BLU Astorija****
from $124
Ramada Hotel****
from $109

All prices above are per person based on standard twin share rooms inclusive of breakfast and private facilities. For single and triple share, please contact us.

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