CAR TRIP TO THE CURONIAN SPIT

Project Overview

Curonian Spit is a unique peninsula in the center of Europe. It belongs to the most beautiful resort of Baltic sea. In 2000 Curonian Spit was included into UNESCO list of world heritage as an object of cultural landscape.

During your visit to Klaipėda, you must pay a visit and enjoy the unrivalled landscape in the Baltic countries. It is very easy to reach Curonian Spit by a car. Passenger-cargo ferries that constantly navigate here the entire year, ship passengers, as well as cars from Klaipėda to Curonian Spit.
Additional expenses when travelling from Klaipėda to Nida are incurred only because of the ferry ticket for vehicle and passengers, and a local fee for entry into the peninsula.

When travelling to Curonian spit, on your way you can visit Witch hill, where an exhibition of 70 carved wooden sculptures is open, as well as Cormorant colony in Juodkrantė, and Dead dunes near Pervalka. By continuing your trip you will reach Nida, this is the highest spot of Neringa, with the population of about 1200.

Parnidis dune – wind blown sand dune in the South of Nida, Curonian Spit, 52 meters  above sea level. Dune is half green and half wind blown.
There is a viewing site and solar clock built at the top of the dune. This is a unique place, because Curonian Spit is the only place in Lithuania, where sun sets and downs from the surface of the water. You can enjoy the richness of the Spit landscape from the viewing site, from here opens up a view to the chain of large dunes, Valley of death, called Lithuanian “Sahara”, great ridge, covered with pines, and waters of the Curonian lagoon. Parnidis dune is a “walking” dune – it is constantly blown and shifting. 1.8 km Parnidis informational path takes you around the dune, you can have a good time surrounded by exceptional beauty when walking over it.
In Nida Lithuanian border meets the Russian Kaliningrad enclave.
In Nida you can also visit Nida ethnographic fisherman’s house, Nida catholic church, UNESCO commemorative sign, decorative sculpture “Jūratė and Kastytis”, Nida evangelical lutheran church, Amber gallery – museum of V. and K. Mizgiriai, Nida lighthouse and Urbas hill, Curonean spit historical museum, memorial museum of writer Thomas Mann and many other places of interest.