Lithuania Uncovered ; Having Shaken Off the Shackles of Soviet Rule, This Baltic State Is at Last Able to Show Off Its Stunning Beauty
Daily Post › February 16, 2008
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WHEN I reached the top of the 200ft high sand dune, the view to each side seemed endless. In front of me was a massive lagoon stretching as far as the eye could see, to my right the Russian border, and behind me, only hundreds of yards away, the crashing waves of the Baltic.
To my left I could look along the 30-mile route winding between forests and sand that we had taken to reach this stunning spot on the Curonian Spit - a pencilthin sliver of sand and trees that lies off the Lithuanian coast and goes on for miles.See the full content of this document
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Lithuania Uncovered ; Having Shaken Off the Shackles of Soviet Rule, This Baltic State Is at Last Able to Show Off Its Stunning Beauty
I was in Dead Dunes, named because fishermen who made their homes here had to flee when the shifting landscape eventually overcame their dwellings, now lying deep beneath the sand.
The unique Spit, now designated a Unesco Worl...See the full content of this document
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