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Kaunas Travel Guide

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Kaunas is the second biggest city in Lithuania.

The emblem of Kaunas
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The emblem of Kaunas

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Understand

Kaunas region tourism information centre

Kaunas municipality

Get in

By plane

Kaunas can be reached with cheap flight carriers Ryanair, Wizz Air and Dot LT to the Kaunas airport which is located ~15 minutes drive from the downtown.

Vilnius airport is just 100 km away from Kaunas.

By road

There is 100 km motorway from Vilnius (capital city) to Kaunas. Buses serve this route every 30 to 60 min.

The international road Via Baltica (connecting Warsaw to Tallinn) crosses Kaunas just after about 100 km from the Lithuanian-Poland border.

Get around

Buses and trolleybuses tickets can be bought at press kiosques and in the transport. Price for one journey is 0.9 LTL (0.26 EUR) or 1.0 LTL (0.29 EUR) if ticket is bought in the buss or trolleybus.

Shuttle (microbuses) service charges 1.5 LTL (0.43 EUR) per journey.

Taxi prices varies from 1 LTL (0.29 EUR) to 2.5 LTL (0.72 EUR) per kilometer.

See

Pažaislis monastery and church form the largest monastery complex in Lithuania, and one of the most magnificent examples of Italian baroque architecture in Eastern Europe.

Kaunas castle is now reopened for the visitors.

Laisves avenue - the most famous walking street starts from the downtown and continues to the old town.

Unique Devil's museum [1] contains the A. Zmuidzinavicius collection of sculptures and carvings of devils, and a collection of devils from the whole world. Open Tue-Sun 11.00-18.00

The Lithuanian Zoo park is located: http://www.zoo.lt

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

  • Solo B&B Dysnos 10, tel.+370687 54443; +37037 743839 info@solohotel.lt [www.solohotel.lt] is newly built, in 2006, annex in the private territory, which provides excellent lodging facilities. Currently we offer 2 homelike and modernly designed (27sq.m.) rooms with the separate entrances and outside terraces that lead to the spacious private garden.

Get out

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