Anyksciai and The Hill of Crosses

The first part of your day trip will take you to visit a place of silence and peace, for serenity and love, for respect and pity – the Hill of Crosses. A pilgrimage site about 12km north of Šiauliai in Northern Lithuania, It is believed to have been placed on the former Jurgaičiai – Domantai hill fortress, and is covered with more than 250,000 crosses, crucifixes, effigies, statues of saints and patriots.

Lunch at the local restaurant.

The Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum is the first object visited in small Anyksciai town. The museum was established in the century-old complex of Anyksciai Railway Station and exhibits Skoda locomotive Kukushka, other narrow gauge rolling stocks and communication tools. Inside the Station there is the waiting hall and the office of the Chief of the Train Station of the Inter-War period in Lithuania. Visitors can try out some of the operating exhibits – the handcar and the railway tricycle.
Later on visiting the permanent exhibition of stone paintings of the folk artist Stanislovas Petraska (1935-2009). To perpetuate landscapes of his homeland and Lithuanian national symbols, the painter used the unique technique of painting with stone dust, characteristic only to this artist.

The Horse Museum exhibits not only the agricultural tools and means of transport of the days of horses, but also unique exhibits of philately, warfare and wood carvings. The museum presents various crafts; the visitors can observe the work of a weaver, ceramicist and bread baker, also a blacksmith, jeweller and a wood carver.

The century-old neogothic red brick church with twin spires, designed by the architect Nikolay Andrejev, is the highest church in Lithuania with its 79-metre-high spires being the first detail the visitors coming to Anykščiai can see.
After that the Treetops walking path, located in the famous Anyksciai Pinewood is the only treetop path in Eastern Europe. The path is in the level of the tree crowns and it lasts for 300 meters, evenly going up to 21 meters high.

Transfer to Vilnius and drop off at your hotel/apartments or other central place.