Date: 1-2/5/2011
Regional bus: Warsaw - Vilnius (19.30 -06.20); single ticket E$50PLN (E$14)
Hostel: Vilnius Old Town Hostel (33Ltl=E$10 dorm)
Food & groceries: E$2.50
Total expenses incurred in Lithuania: E$26.50
Hostel: Vilnius Old Town Hostel (33Ltl=E$10 dorm)
Food & groceries: E$2.50
Total expenses incurred in Lithuania: E$26.50
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After Warsaw, I took a bus to Vilinius, Lithuania - a 11 hr bus journey ! The hostel I stayed in Vilnius is within walking distance from the Old Town. As I had a full day in Vilnius so this gave me ample time to explore on this Baltic city in northern Europe. I learned that after the WWII, most of the Polish populace who settled in Lithuania prior to the war had moved back to Poland and replaced by new migrants from Belarus, Russia & Ukraine
I had visited Riga (Latvia) & Tallinn (Estonia) in 2009 and realized that Vilnius is a much larger city and more spread out than Riga & Tallinn so walking around the city was quite a challenge !
Some places of interest I visited: the Old Town, Tower & Cathedral Square, Gediminas Castle, National Museum, Palace etc
1) Vilnius, Lithuania
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" Lithuania, a Baltic state in northern Europe (the others are Latvia & Estonia); Soviet & Nazi German control during the last two world wars; Baltic states uprising; Singing Revolution in 1980; Baltic Way revolution - a 2 million human chain stretching for 600km from Talinn to Vilnius; what an extra ordinary way of fighting for independence from Soviet; a new nation was born in 1989 !
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