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First of all I must admit all roads in Lithuania are under excellent conditions except this one road near Mazeikiai. For the first 10 kilometers the road was paved with not even one pothole but suddenly, after a curve this paved road ended in an unpaved gravel roads. Rain occured corrugation in that road which made it impossible for my tiny car to go on. We had to turn and took another road.
This country is not especially dangerous, but problems with car stolen are frequent mainly in the tourist places. If you are in Lithuania with your own car (that means, a foreign car) you have lots of possibilities to be robbed. So keep it in a parking, anyway it's not 100% secure. Even with a lithuanian car (from a rent-a-car) you must be careful and don't let any personal object inside it or you will be stolen, at same way!
THE BORDER - as you can see it is pretty serious: do not try to cross it somewhere in the woods. From the Polish side everything looks so innocent, but the nice fence is about 1/2 km further on the Lithuanian territory.
I would like to warn everybody traveling to Lithuania about one thing. Don't leave any belongings in the car, even if you park just for a minute. Believe me, those that have 'long' fingers do it very quickly. I'm sure this isn't a problem only in Lithuania,other places have same problem, but just be very careful. I know a few cases when tourists lost their things this way.
I heard a lot about the crime and stealing cars... But I didn't see anything, may be I was lucky?:) Only problem we had that:if you have cash(foreign currency) and they are not very new - some banks do not acept them; as mentioned before - although everywhere are stickers that they acept credit cards but..or they don't have the 'mashine' or it doesn't work... for most acomodation - you have to pay cash and for the long distance busses too, so make sure you have enough!
If you're staying for a month or more, need to make many calls inside Lith and would like to have a number of local operators, I'd suggest buying a number (~20LT) and a LABAS card (20; 40; 90 LT) BITE GSM operator or number and EXTRA card from OMNITEL. Would not recommend anyone provider TELE2 In Lithuania.All mobile operators in Lithuania recently have changed to international numbering system, changing the first digit of the prefix to '6'. Please update your contacts! :) +370 XXX yyyyy -> +370 6xx yyyyyinternational city codes have changed too now calling to Kaunas +370 37 xxxxx, Vilnius +370 5 21x xx xx.
The only 'danger' I have witnessed in Lithuania are drunks, especially during the evening and nightly hours. Most of these are really dead drunks men or women, who don't try to harm you in any way..but anyway it's not a nice view.
Vilnius seems to share Warsaws problem with uneven footpaths and roads. Saw some potholes that were quite deep, so take care when driving.
if u walk alonein recesses places in dark n unlight u can be attack, beatten n robbed.dangerous places: station regions, parks, woods.
If you avoid the district of the Train Station, Vilnius is likely the safest city I have seen in the Eastern countries. Even at night (starts at 4 p.m.in the winter)you will feel safe.
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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...
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