Shore excursions in Klaipeda for Baltic Cruise passengers

We offer several shore excursions in Klaipeda for Baltic Sea Cruise passengers. Our shore tours are low cost yet include all the must see places. The local guides speak fluent English and are truly professional. You can choose one of two programs of Klaipeda shore excursions quoted below or order any other individual tour program. We will be pleased to assist you in arranging shore tour in Klaipeda.

Short Tour - Klaipeda 3 hours

Pick up at the port. Klaipeda Panoramic tour including the old Post Office with its carillon concerts on Sunday morning, the old city, the main street Liepu, sculpture park Mazhvidas Martinas, the ancient theater and the Plaza Simon Dach monument to Anna Tarau, Memelburg Castle ruins, built by the Teutonic Order. Free time for shopping trips and crafts street. Could end with lunch on the ship "Meridian", moored on the River Dane, which today is one of the leading restaurants in the city.

Long Tour - Klaipeda and Palanga 5 hours

Morning panoramic tour of Klaipeda: Post Office, Sculpture Park, Castle Memelburg, Theatre Square, street Liepu, etc. Visit to nearby Palanga (25km), the most popular resort town on the coast of Lithuania. Visit to the famous Botanical Garden and Amber Museum, located in the Count Tyszkewitcz Palace, where you can enjoy a rich exposition of 5000 figures in amber, as well as one of the exhibitions taking place in the dates of visit. Promenade around Palanga. Returning to port.

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Some facts about Klaipeda

Being the main seaport of Lithuania, Klaipeda is known as "The door of Lithuania to the sea". Klaipeda is Lithuania's third city which has 189 000 inhabitants. It is the northernmost port of the Baltic Sea and the only port in the Baltic that does not cover with ice in winter. Klaipeda is one of the oldest cities of the Baltic, founded in 1252 by the Teutonic Order. With the city architecture is similar to the cities of Scandinavia.

In the Old City that survived the bombing of the Second World War we can admire fachtwerk style buildings with elements of modernism, with houses built mostly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, whose main feature is wooden frame with stone. The oldest houses - from mid-eighteenth century - remind of the tales of Grimm brothers. The German influence in architecture is induscutible in Klaipeda.

Klaipeda is a great tourist center. Fine white sand beaches stretch along the Baltic Sea coast, while the city has a hotel infrastructure and highly developed recreation system. The Klaipeda Aquarium Museum is located in the Fortress of Kopgalis and conduct performances with dolphins and California sea lions which is popular among citizens and tourists. On one side of the Clocks Museum from the Old Post Office towers each weekend you can enjoy carillon music concerts.