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Curonian Spit

📷 Lithuania Juodkrante sand dunes.jpg : Wojsyl derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

A ninety-kilometre sandbar of migrating dunes, pine forest and fishing villages.

The Curonian Spit is a strip of sand barely a few hundred metres wide in places, with the Baltic on one side and a lagoon on the other. Its dunes once swallowed fourteen villages, and the forest planted to stop them is why anything stands here at all; the Parnidis dune still moves. Nida keeps its blue-and-red fishermen’s cottages and the house Thomas Mann built in 1930. Millions of birds funnel down the spit on migration, and a ringing station has counted them since 1929.

Known for

  • Coastal
  • Nature
  • Beach
  • Cycling
Travel guide on Wikivoyage ↗

Best time to visit

The best months for Curonian Spit are June, July, August and September.

Suggested route

7 nights across 3 stops. Jourimo adjusts it to the length of your trip.

  1. 1Nida · 3 nights
  2. 2Juodkrantė · 2 nights
  3. 3Klaipėda · 2 nights