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Take the wooden boardwalk across the dunes from Vasaros Ambasada to reach this beach. The drinks are pretty standard – Aperol and melon spritzes, Švyturys beers, some sparkling wine – but there are few better places for digging your toes into the sand and toasting the Baltic sunset.


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Nearby Lithuania attractions

1. Antanas Mončys House Museum

0.38 MILES

This museum displays large wooden sculptures, collages and masks by Lithuanian émigré artist Antanas Mončys (1921–93). The sculptor was very tactile and…

2. Exile & Resistance Museum

0.43 MILES

A modest permanent exhibition detailing resistance to foreign (particularly Soviet) occupation in Lithuania's troubled 20th century with personal stories…

3. Amber Processing Gallery

0.56 MILES

This is the last of the dozen or so original amber shops Palanga boasted in the late 19th century, when it was one of the largest amber-processing centres…

4. Dr Jono Šliūpas Memorial House

0.56 MILES

Fascinating black-and-white photos of old Palanga fill this house, the former home of the town’s first mayor. Closed on Sunday between September and May.

5. Amber Museum

0.66 MILES

Housed in a neoclassical palace built by Count Feliksas Tiskevicius in 1897, this revamped museum showcases what is reputedly the world’s sixth-largest…

6. Botanical Park

0.84 MILES

The 1-sq-km park includes a rose garden, 18km of footpaths and Birutė Hill (Birutēs kalnas), once a pagan shrine. According to legend, it was tended by…

7. Kretinga Museum

7.8 MILES

A crumbling winter garden attached to the Kretinga Museum houses a tropical mirage of 850 species of exotic plants. The museum itself is located in one of…

8. Lithuania Sea Museum

13.9 MILES

This popular museum, set in a 19th-century fort, has some fascinating stuffed sea animals, as well as aquariums showcasing the marine life of the Curonian…