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At 25 square miles, the national park in the Kaliningrad region, is one-sixteenth the size of Russia's capital. The sword-shaped Curonian Spit runs from Kaliningrad, Russia to Klaipeda, Lithuania. The ...

Standing next to one of the largest, most mathematically correct sundials in the world, I have no idea what time it is. I can’t read the Lithuanian instructions, the order and spacing of numbered ...

Europe's highest sand dunes are located in Russia’s smallest national park, the Curonian Spit, where you can spend up to three days without a Russian visa if you’re on a cruise ship. Dunes the size of ...

At the edge of the Valley of Silence, the landscape changes so suddenly it’s like strolling to another continent — from a placid, fragrant pine forest to a soaring wall of brown sand. A short but ...

The Curonian Spit in Lithuania is a nature lover's haven There is a place on the Curonian Spit where fish fall out of the sky. No, really, my guide assured me — but by then, I would not have been ...

The Curonian Spit, named after one of the early Baltic tribes that inhabited the region, is a curious place, a 60 mile-long finger of sand that stretches upwards from Russian Kaliningrad to within a ...

The Curonian Spit in Lithuania contains six main villages: Smiltynė, Alksnynė, Juodkrantė, Pervalka, Preila and Nida, all connected by a single narrow road surrounded by water on both sides. As such, ...

THE CURONIAN Spit, a piece of land which curls southwest from Lithuania’s coast like a stray hair, looks as curious on the map as it feels on the ground. In a country with few hills let alone ...

2018 42COM 7B.25 - Curonian Spit (Lithuania, Russian Federation) (C 994) 2016 40COM 7B.53 - Curonian Spit (Lithuania / Russian Federation) (C 994) 2014 38COM 7B.28 - Curonian Spit (Lithuania / Russian ...

Curonian Spit is a 98 km long, thin, curved sand-dune spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea coast. It stretches from the Sambian Peninsula on the south to its northern tip next ...