Train tour in Lithuania

CULTURE & RAIL TOUR

Exploring culture and railway traditions in the Baltic States

660€ (per person)
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CULTURE & RAIL TOUR

Exploring culture and railway traditions in the Baltic States

You will get:

  • 5 overnights in central located hotels;
  • 5 Breakfasts;
  • 4 Lunches (3 course with water + coffee or tea);
  • 2 Dinners (3 course with water + coffee or tea);
  • English/German/French-speaking group leader escort during the whole tour;
  • Air-conditioned coach (with two doors and toilet) for the entire stay
  • Train tickets: Vilnius – Trakai – Vilnius, Vilnius – Kaunas, Kaunas – Zaliakalnis (funicular), Kaunas – Aleksotas (funicular)
  • Sightseeing tours and excursions with English speaking guide: Vilnius, Trakai, Kaunas, Anyksciai; 
  • Entrance fees: Trakai castle, Pazaislis Monastery, Railway museum in Anyksciai and Panevezys 
  • Private train trip with “Siaurukas” ;
  • Visit to “Siaurukas” museum in Panevezys
  • Boat ride on Trakai lake.
 
 

Itinerary

  • Arrival to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
  • Meeting by local group leader at the airport
  • Bus transfer to your centrally located hotel. Check-in.
  • Overnight in Vilnius.
  • Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Vilnius city tour by bus and walking to see most interesting sights: the Old Town, listed by UNESCO’s World Heritage Lists and its main churches, historical and architectural monuments, the Gates of Dawn with a splendid icon of Virgin Mary, Vilnius University and Cathedral Square.
  • Departure to Vilnius train station for rain: Vilnius – Trakai
  • 12:30 train to Trakai (28 km from Vilnius), the former capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania with it’s beautiful insular castle of 14th century, erected on the amazingly situated island in the middle of a lake. Trakai castle is about 20 – 25 minutes’ walk from Trakai train station.
  • Lunch on your own
  • Visit to the castle
  • A lake cruise
  • Return by train to Vilnius.
  • Welcome dinner at restaurant close to hotel.
  • Overnight in Vilnius.

VILNIUS – KAUNAS – VILNIUS

  • Breakfast at hotel
  • Departure by train to Kaunas. Travel distance – 100 km, time 1:15 h.
  • Kaunas city tour includess funiculars in Kaunas. Kaunas is the only city in Lithuania with this type of transport since 1931. In the residential districts of Žaliakalnis and Aleksotas these “climbing cars” serve both as a means of transport and entertainment. The Aleksotas funicular links the old part of the city with the slopes of Aleksotas hill, offering a marvelous panoramic view of the city. The Žaliakalnis funicular provides an easy way of reaching the Resurrection Church from the city center.
  • Lunch in a traditional Lithuanian restaurant
  • Visit to the church and monastery of Pazaislis
  • Overnight in Kaunas.
  • Breakfast at hotel.
  • Transfer by bus to Anykščiai.
  • Arrival to Anykščiai and visit railway museum.
  • Private trip with Siaurukas online Anykščiai – Rubikiai with narrow gauge railway of Aukštaitija, otherwise Siaurukas, – a unique train heritage.  A narrow-gauge railway line Panevėžys – Anykščiai – Rubikiai was built in 1899. This was the time of black engines and wooden carriages. At the beginning of the 20th-century Siaurukas was the main mechanical means of transport in the region of Aukštaitija (north-eastern Lithuania) for carrying people and goods such as flax, bacons, sugar-beet, flour, butter, flax-seed, wood and sand.
    From the year 2001, the narrow-gauge railway is used only for carrying passengers. Now it is a unique object of engineering heritage.
  • Barbecue lunch at small café located right on the bank of Rubikiai lake.
  • Afternoon Continue by bus to Riga, during the trip stop in Panevezys to visit the narrow-gauge railway museum.
  • Late arrival to Panevezys.
  • Overnight in Panevezys.
  • Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Transfer by bus to Vilnius.
  • Free time
  • Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Transfer to airport.

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