Palanga - The Baltic Sea - Amber Park Museum

Palanga

The Hill of Crosses was not actually our final destination that day, we were headed toward a town on the edge of the Baltic - Palanga.

Palanga looks like it would be amazing in warm weather!  As it turns out, I was there on a very cold day, so walking around town wasn’t a big part of the plan, though we did get in a good bit of walking.  First we stopped by a big pier that goes out into the Baltic, gorgeous view, I wanted to walk out to the end, but the others I was with didn’t want to in the cold (but, I mean, they’re all from Lithuania, so they can come back here whenever!) … Then we went to the Palanga Amber Park Museum in which we saw the world’s biggest single piece of amber and a number of different insects caught in amber.  By the time we left the museum, it was dark (about 56° north and near the end of December - it got dark early) so we didn’t really get a chance to look around the botanical garden part of the Amber Park Museum, but it definitely looked like it is beautiful.