Discovering the green side of Lithuania
Last updated 8/26/2009 6:25:03 PM
Trakai castle. Photo © A.Valuzis
Lithuania is responding well to sustainable tourism.
Only nineteen years after the country’s independence from the Soviet Union, its capital Vilnius, now stood as European Capital of Culture for 2009.
A white paper released by Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in 2007 identified five ecotourism regions in Lithuania: Seacoast, Samogitian highlands, Central Lithuania, Northern Lithuania and Baltic highlands.
Apart from cultural tourism, rural tourism is gaining prominence. Lithuania’s Association of Rural Tourism has 978 members and approximately 400 of these are rural farmsteads.
Here are a few green travel ideas from The Lithuanian National Tourism Office especially for Optimist World readers and eco travellers.