The Baltic cities – Vilnius (Lithuania)

This city trip was the most action-packed trip as we had to walk 1 and a half hour to get to our hostel first. Walking through some narrow streets with old and damaged buildings we did not feel safe at all. That is why, we spontaneously decided to book another hostel in the city centre and spend our time there.

We had been disappointed as the hostel we would have taken before was recommended by tripadvisor.

Even though I had to take a completely icing shower in the second hostel as it took about half an hour to heat up the water, the room was nice and the location more close to the city centre.

The next day we visited the Trakai castle which looks more like a fairy tale castle for a princess. Inside the castle they showed some parts of the castle and how it was built.

The Trakai castle

The chocolate factory in Trakai is also worth a visit and taking some tea or coffee or even a hot chocolate with liquid chocolate. Moreover, they serve quite a lot of different pastries such as cakes.

After the visit in Trakai we did some sightseeing in Vilnius and went up the Gediminas tower where we had a wonderful view over the city.

the tower

view from the tower

In the evening we had dinner in a Lithuanian restaurant in the old town of the city where I had some traditional Raviolis with meat balls. Because of the fact that Vilnius was our last stop on our journey, we travelled back to Tallinn the next day and took the ferry to Helsinki the day after.

The trip to the Baltic was extremely beautiful and informative. I was able to get a lot of new experiences and impressions from those cities and would not have liked to miss them.