This full day excursion is built for guests who want the region's three signature stops covered in one outing: the amber coast at Palanga, the restored heart of Klaipeda, and the dunes of the Curonian Spit at Nida.
The day begins in Palanga, the 19th century resort town that grew up around Lithuania's amber-rich shoreline, its sandy beaches, and its pine forests. You walk through a park to the town's Amber Museum, set inside the former palace of the noble Tyszkiewicz family, and its surrounding botanical gardens, before a short stop at the beach to try your luck searching for a piece of amber yourself.
From Palanga you drive to Klaipeda for a driving tour of the city's old quarter, shaped for centuries by German speaking rule and left largely in ruins after serving as a German submarine base in the Second World War. The buildings you see today have been carefully restored to their earlier character. You then have a stop in town with free time for lunch on your own before the afternoon leg of the tour begins.
In the afternoon, you cross by ferry from Klaipeda to Smiltyne to reach the Curonian Spit, a 60 mile UNESCO listed sandbank separating the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon and home to the tallest drifting sand dunes in Europe. From Smiltyne you continue by vehicle through Neringa to the resort town of Nida, near the Russian border, passing lagoons, dune fields, and small fishing villages along the way. In Nida, you visit the Summer Cottage of Thomas Mann, the German novelist who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature for Buddenbrooks and is equally well known for Death in Venice, before returning to Klaipeda and the ship later in the afternoon.
Review Location- Klaipeda 
