Vilnius
Bizarre, beautiful and bewitching, Lithuania's capital seduces visitors with its astonishing Old Town charm.
Bizarre, beautiful and bewitching, Lithuania's capital seduces visitors with its astonishing Old Town charm.
Lithuania's coastline is magical.
Central Lithuania is a strange brew.
Kaunas has a reputation as a sprawling urban city and a hotbed of post-Soviet mafia.
Sea port Klaipėda, 315km west of Vilnius, is the springboard to the natural beauty of the Curonian Spit.
The deep, magical forests of Lithuania's eastern and southern corners are a tree-hugger's paradise.
Palanga is a seaside resort with a split personality - peaceful pensioner paradise in winter, pounding party spot in summer.
Nineteenth-century spa town Druskininkai on the Nemunas River is Lithuania's oldest and most chic.
Lithuania's fourth-largest city is overshadowed by the incredible Hill of Crosses 10km north.
Lakeside Trakai, with its red-brick fairy-tale castle and blushing brides in meringue dresses who flock here on Saturdays to have their pic taken, is the quintessential day trip from Vilnius.
The low-lying, marsh-dotted eastern side of the Curonian Lagoon (Kursių marios) could be the end of the world.
In beloved Aukštaitija National Park it's clear where Lithuania's love for nature arose.
Southwestern Lithuania is a rural pocket few venture into bar Poland-bound travellers who drive through Lazdijai, 43km northwest of Druskininkai, or rattle by train through Šeštokai, 18km north of Lazdijai, en route to Suwałki (Poland).
Doomed Visaginas is a town without a future: built in 1975 for workers of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, the unlucky lakeside frontier was designed by the USSR for energy specialists seconded from the Soviet Union to oversee the plant's...
Here Lithuania's brutal history is starkly portrayed.
This magical pigtail of land dangling off the western rump of Lithuania hosts some of the worlds’ most precious sand dunes and a menagerie of elk, deer and avian wildlife.
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