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Recently it really became popular to tour the Baltics and the most often question I get is "I have little time, what are the must-sees?". So here's what I recommend if you have from 1 week to 14-15 days.

extended and my personal recommendable menu for ~14days:

Vilnius www.vilnius.lt capital with a very nice old town, discos and other stuff., Trakai (www.trakai.lt)- a beautiful castle on the island of the lake and Kernave with mounds and the river (Trakai and Kernave are both near, beautiful nature scenes on the way), Kaunas www.kaunas.lt (center, old town, Pazaislis Cloister at Kaunas Lagoon and a day in Rumsiskes open air museum with traditional ethnographical villages in summer you can go there by ferry too), Siauliai and Hill of Crosses, Palanga with amber museum and seaside for active rest (you can make also a half day trips to close small towns like Kretinga or Sventoji by minibus ~20 mins) from there to Klaipeda to see the old town and to take a ferry to Curorian Spit www.nerija.lt (it's a part between the sea and Kurshiu Lagoon, fantastic nature and places, high dunes lot's of relaxation, written into UNESCO's nature heritage there must sees are: Nida, Juodkrante). Most of these places you can find on my pages (palanga, trakai, siauliai -hill of crosses, kaunas).

percentually I'd leave more time to the Curorian Lagoon ~30/40 %. If you're by car and then you have to go to Latvia, from Palanga take direction of Liepaja and soon you are there.

Short standart tourist menu:

Vilnius-Trakai- Kaunas [not always]- hill of crosses- curorian spit

per italiani. Spesso ricivo le domande quali sono i posti "da non perdere" in Lituania avendo circa 14 giorni, eccovi la risposta:
Vilnius (capitale, con citta vecchia, discos, ecc.), castello di Trakai (http://www.trakai.lt/) tra tanti laghi anche Kernave (vicino li, alla fiume), Kaunas - centro, citta vecchia, monasterio di Pazaislis alla laguna,
Rumsiskes, Siauliai con Hill of crosses, Palanga - museo di ambra, riviera per divertimento e riposo attivo (con voglia giretti a Kretinga o Sventoji), da li Klaipeda - visitare la citta vecchia poi prendere traghetto e andare a Kursiu Nerija/Curorian Spit (Nida,Juodkrante, Nerija)- parte tra mare e laguna , posti stupendi, bellissimi, pinette, mare, dune, da non perdere, piu tranquilli
(www.nerija.lt). Quasi tutti li trovate nelle mie pagine di Lituania (spec.Trakai, Palanga, Siauliai - hill of crosses, Kaunas). Per andare in Lettonia con macchina dovete tornare a Palanga e prendere direzione di Liepaja, tra poco siete in Lettonia.

Sicuramente c'e' molto di piu da vedere e potete modificare il viaggio mentre lo fate. cmq, avendo circa 14 giorni io farrei cosi. in breve: Vilnius-Kernave+Trakai-Kaunas (solo prego non solo centro- monosterio di Pazaislis e' uno da non perdere) -Siauliai (hill of crosses)- Palanga (piccolli giretti a Kretinga, Sventoji, se interessano) - Klaipeda - curorian spit (Nida, Juodkrante, Nerija). Piu tempo in estate lascerei per mare ~40%.

Avendo pochi giorni giro standarte turistico sarebbe:

Vilnius-Trakai- Kaunas [non sempre]- collina di croci (siauliai)- curorian spit.

I oblige you to ;-)

black bread, curd cheese with natural lincquid honey, fresh strawberries from the local market, black baked bread with garlic and cold good lithuanian beer, saltibarksciai - cold beet soup, one of the following: kugelis/plokstainis, cepelinai/didzkukuliai, at the seaside - fresh smoked fish. In winter additional things: traditional "kopustiene" soup (cabbage soup) with hot potatoes, and traditional lithuanian mead "suktinis". Check the travelogue "traditional lithuanian food" for more detailed food information.