The Curonian Spit

The spit is about 100km made of sand dunes. On the Lithuanian side the west is quite high dunes with a good cycle path more or less next to it.  The land is protected so access is only at designated places.  Storms and rain were forecast but we seemed to avoid them but the wind was strong and we went no further than admiring the sea from the top of the dunes.  Much of the rest of the spit is pine forest with small resorts from time to time on the east side, facing the lagoon and the mainland.  We crossed over at lunch time and ad a high dune to cycle (or push) over. A couple of hundred years ago the trees were mostly cut down or destroyed by fire.  Then the sand began to be blown around and villages were buried, so the trees had to be planted again and protected.

We stayed the night in a friendly camp site in Nida.  There was a German tourist bus carrying mainly pensioners. The top floors were sleeping cabins.  I think it is the sort of coach tourism that I could cope with.