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By MB Tour Lithuania

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Free cancellation available
Price is AU$207 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
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Overview

    • Discover Trakai and the medieval expansion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
    • Explore the historic interwar capital of Kaunas and the harrowing Nazi history
    • Enter Kernavė, a UNESCO Archaeological Heritage site and ancient seat of power

Activity location

    • Vilnius
    • Vilnius, Vilniaus apskritis, Lithuania

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Odminių skveras, Odminių g., 01103 Vilnius, Lithuania | Meet at Odminių Skveras opposite the cathedral entrance. There is a bus stop for City Tours, also marked on Google Maps as City Tours-Bus Stop.
    • Vilnius, Vilniaus apskritis, Lithuania

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Jim's 4x Capital Fridays Vilnius, Trakai, Kaunas and Kernavė

  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h
    9h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 9:50 AM
Price details
AU$206.98 x 2 AdultsAU$413.96
Total
Price is AU$413.96
Until Thu, 29 Oct

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Includes water during the course of the day, coffee at Baltic Brew in Vilnius Soviet neighbourhood, Kibinai pastry in Trakai, guiding and our transport throughout the day
  • Exclusions
    Does not include meals or entrances to museums or castles should you wish to go inside. Kernavė mounds are free and in Trakai you can go out to castle island and around the exterior also for free

Know before you book

    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

What you can expect

  • A historical small-group tour from Vilnius to Trakai, Kaunas & Kernavė. Each served as a capital, however briefly (Trakai is said to have done so for less than a decade), and has a storey to tell—from the ancient hill fort of Kernavė to the interwar capital of Kaunas.

    Throughout this journey I will share the broad brush as well as pivotal moments which have shaped the beloved nation of Lithuania I now call home with my wife and son. I will also be playing songs, from Eurovision to chants of the forest by the fire.

    With the music and stories of everyday folk, I hope to bring you back in time to the medieval, Soviet and even prehistoric ways of life.

    The itinerary will include:

    09:50 - 10:30 Drive through the melting pot of Vilnius, first the UNESCO World-Heritage site Old Town and then the towering steel of the Central Business District.

    10:30 Short 20-minute coffee stop at Baltic Brew in the heart of the Karoliniškės Soviet blocks.

    10:50 - 11:30 Drive to Trakai covering the medieval history of Lithuania, the Grand Duchy, Crusades and a Union with Poland.

    Short stop at Hill of Angels

    11:30 - 12:30 Explore the Karaim heritage in Trakai, visit the castle island and try a Kibinai!

    12:30 - 13:45 Drive to Kaunas, and fast forward to the 20th century as we head to the interwar capital.

    13:45 - 15:45 Enjoy 2 hours in Kaunas at your own pace. We will park just outside the castle and you will have the option to meet again for lunch with me after 1 hour or to simply rendezvous back at the vehicle. Recommendations made.

    15:45 - 16:45 Short drive and stop at the Monument to Commemorate the Victims of Nazism. Brutalist style and unveiled in 1984.

    16:45 - 17:45 Drive to Kernavė and teleport back to the prehistoric times when Lithuania was but dense forests, rivers and swamps.

    17:45 - 18:45 Explore the hillforts of Kernavė UNESCO Archaeological site and the open air museum of medieval homesteads.

    18:45 - 19:30 Try not to fall asleep on the journey home.

Location

Activity location

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    • Vilnius
    • Vilnius, Vilniaus apskritis, Lithuania

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Odminių skveras, Odminių g., 01103 Vilnius, Lithuania | Meet at Odminių Skveras opposite the cathedral entrance. There is a bus stop for City Tours, also marked on Google Maps as City Tours-Bus Stop.
    • Vilnius, Vilniaus apskritis, Lithuania