Thursday 1 December 2011

Travelling to Visaginas, Lithuania.

Lithuania on the map.
Driving directions to Visaginas from Kaunas.
Bus stop in Vilnius.

So...
You must be brave!
At the beginning- buy a ticket via Ryanair (find the cheapest via skyscanner.net).
The cheapest flight from Bristol to Kaunas - aprroximate £100.
Remember (!)- check in online and print Your boarding pass before You leave home!
The flight is at 9.15AM. So...You start Your journey to Bristol at 4.30AM.
You must be willing to go a long way (2.5 hour drive) to Bristol Airport.
Leave the car in the parking lot. (cost aprroximate £4 a day)
You will be on long plane flight of 2.5 hours to Kaunas in Lithuania.

Then the bus ride from Kaunas Airport to Vilnius duration of 1.5 hours (buying a ticket in advance via the Internet - from here - ollex.lt) to travel to Vilnius (55 Lt (16 €) return).
...alternatively you can rent a car from the same ollex.lt.
Or you can book bus tickets online for a direct route Kaunas-Visaginas Return here.

In Vilnius You making a transfer to another bus in the same square to ride from Vilnius to Visaginas duration 2.5 hours. (Ticket from bus station or bus driver - 25 Lt (8 €).
And You are here, in Visaginas! ...aprroximate at 19.00PM.
...a looong journey!

Be prepared to step back in time, it may not be as you have imagined.
In winter it is a healthy dry cold, and the weather can change from rain to snow in the blink of an eye, in snowy conditions Trains,Buses and people still work so travel is no problem.

In summer it is like a tropical climate where you can swim in the many warm lakes and walk or ride bicycles through the woods and gather mushrooms or berries.
...a lot of pictures of my vacation at different times during the winter and summer here.

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