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Unlike some other western countries, in Lithuania if you'll be invited to home, you will get many meals and drinks there and if you won't eat or drink it might be though that those meals/drinks were bad. Ussually, hosts will try to keep you at home every time you will try to leave. This is especially true in small towns and villages.
Lithuanian religion is Roman Catholicism, and it is the most religious former-Soviet country. Churhc has quite much importance, holidays like christmas or easter are very celebrated. In Vilnius old city there is no open place from which you couldn't see at least one church spire.
One of the most comon Lithuanian suvenier is amber.not just amber but so many things made of it.to find more pictures & info please visit these pages--->http://www.excite.co.uk/directory/Science/Earth_Sciences/Paleontology/Amberhttp://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/amber/welcome.htmlhttp://www.gplatt.demon.co.uk/map.htm#THE INDEXhttp://www.biggles.co.uk/Columbus/data/ltu/ltuMiniguide.htm(more info from me will be later:)
One my friend, who lives in 1000 km from Vilnius tried to prove me that our grannies paint Easter eggs using template! What an insult!It’s really difficult to decorate an egg as in the picture right and not every granny will do it. If she can do it, we start calling her a master. The shell is carved with razor creating various Lithuanian symbols of nature revival: suns, leaves, birds, firs, etc.The other, easer way is to paint the egg with wax and to soak into dye.But the easiest way is to wrap up the egg into onion peel, add some herbs that will leave their print on the shell and to boil the egg in the dyes of different colours.
Wet saunas are very popular in Lithuania, especially handmade ones in "Sodyba," something Americans would call country homes. These differ from dry or Scandinavian saunas in that they are normally made of wood, and water is poured on heated rocks to create a sweating effect.One very healthy practice in these saunas is taking young juniper branches, dipping them in water and hitting them on the back of someone laying in the sauna. It is supposed to be supreme when it comes to relaxing your muscles and opening your pores.One trick Lithuanians like to play (and I've seen this happen more than once) is to hit you with the juniper branches until you can't bear it any longer due to the extreme heat. While you're suffering away, someone else in the sauna fetches a cold bucket of water and dumps it on your back at the moment of the most excrutiating heat. Very funny!
Here are some basic words in Lithuanian. Yes = Taip No = Ne Thank you = Aciu Thank you very much = Labai aciu Excuse me = Atsiprasau Hello = Labas Goodbye = Viso gero So long = Iki Good morning = Labas rytas Good afternoon = Laba diena Good evening = Labas vakaras Do you speak ... = Ar jus kalbate English = angliskai French = prancuziskai German = vokiskai Spanish = ispaniskai Nice to meet you. = Malonu Jus matyti How are you? = Kaip laikotes? Good = Gerai Bad = Blogai So so = Siaip sau Friend = Draugas . If you are interested about any question of Lithuanian- English languages, try this site: http://www.travellithuania.com/country/language_hear.php
7 weeks before Easter, in Lithuania, especcialy in Vilnius, we have Kaziukas Market. There you can find folk art : nice wooden flowers, basketry, etc.The festival lasts all the weekend, even more. There are a lot of musicions in the streets, and all oldtown is intended to this fetival !!
Try lithuanian kind of alcoholic drink 'BOBELINE'. Is is quite strong drink with taste of cranberry, but it is really good, if you here in winter, and it is cold ! So with Bobeline you will not freeze !!
If you see two Lithuanians singing, do not ask them what a song is this. They just talk:). Lithuanian language is very melodious.While other Indo-European languages underwent rapid transformations, the languages in the Baltic branch, and Lithuanian in particular, remained relatively unchanged. Out of all of the living Indo-European languages, it has best retained archaic sound systems, many morphologies and lexical features. For this reason, it is difficult for researchers to fully comprehend Indo-European languages without knowledge of Lithuanian. Sanskrit and the Baltic languages constitute two poles between which are sought the origins of the Indo-European languages. There are in fact many similarities between these two tongues.
AUTUMN-TIME FOR WEDDINGS!!! But everybody prefers doing it in summer.Weddings are a very important cultural tip because they indicate prolongation of family line and consequently - survival of the nation. Therefore weddings in Lithuania is not a business of two people. It is a duty of two families and a feast for all relatives, friends, neighbours, and all villagers! Normally it lasts two days, sometimes three days. There are a lot of traditional elements of weddings, but at present one of the funniest moments during a wedding party is the execution of the match-maker (a person who introduced the bride and the groom). Toward the end of the wedding party the bride's relatives come to realise that their sister has been taken in by the promises of the match-maker. Having proved that his description of the groom's possessions was highly exaggerated they decide to hang the match-maker....
Radisson SAS Astorija Hotel Vilnius Vilnius
8 Reviews and 104 Opinions The Radisson Sas is one very nice hotel here in the old city. Good location where you can walk to...
Park Inn Kaunas Kaunas
5 Reviews and 115 Opinions New modern hotel. Now name Reval hotel Neris. I work in Reval hotel so i know how everything is...
Promenada Klaipeda
4 Reviews and 8 Opinions I didn't stay in the hotel myself, but I know from my guests, that there is a good breakfast and...
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Q: How would somebody describe a road Trakai – Alytaus – Lazdiai – Augustow (Poland). If do it, than via Dirvoniskes or not? I am...
A: hi It depends what you want. If you are just driving then it's ordinary road, going mostly through forest, fields and small villages. Road quality is quite o.k. If you...
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