Lithuania Photo Gallery - Weeks 6~8
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1 -
Statuette of Perkūnas pagan
thunder god at Kernavė Museum
2 -
Kernavė Archaeolological Site
hill-forts and River Neris valley
3
- Anykščiai station and
preserved narrow gauge railway
4 -
Holocaust Memorial to Anykščiai
Jewish citizens murdered by Germans
5
- Arvydas Gaidelis Guesthouse-
Camping at Palūšė
6
-
Rūpintojėlis
(Contemplative
Christ shrine) at Palūšė Church
7
- Stork foraging for prey
in Aukštaitija National Park
8
- Views of Aukštaitija lakeland from
path along Šiliniškės esker-ridge
9
- Ginučiai castle-mound
10th century Lithuanian hill-fort
10
- Contemplative Christ shrine-statue in Aukštaitija National Park
11
- Cranberry flowers (
Vaccinium
oxycoccus
) growing in Aukštaitija
12
- Former Reactor#1 building
at Ignalina Nuclear Power Station
13
- Ignalina Nuclear Power Station
reactor #2 now decommissioned
14
- Soviet era concrete apartment
blocks (
panelaky
) at Visaginas
15
- Sunset across Lake Zarasai
at Zarasai Camping
16
- Neo-Baroque St Mary's Ascension
church by Sėlių Aikštė at Zarasai
17
- Sink holes among woodland in
Biržai's Karst limestone country
18
- Cow Hole Karst sink hole in
Biržai's limestone country
19
-
Geologists' sink hole opened up
in 2003 in agricultural countryside
20
- Stork foraging for prey
in Biržai agricultural countryside
21
- Storks foraging for prey following
a tractor cutting grass for hay
22
- Stork chicks on nest awaiting
parent bird bringing food
23
- Filtration plant and maturing
vats at Rinkuškiai Brewery
24
- Sunset over Biržai 525m long
wooden footbridge across Lake Šivėna
25
- Sunset across Lake Šivėna
against silhouetted trees
26
- Golden light of setting sun
across Biržai's 525m long footbridge
27
- Sunset after-glow lighting
our camper at Biržai Camping
28
- Biržai Monument to those killed
in 1917~20 War of Independence
29
- Biržai Castle reconstructed as
Renaissance palace in 1980s
30
- Kirkilai crescent-shaped 32m
high Viewing Tower over Karst Lakes
31
- Biržai Karstic lakeland from
Kirkilai
Viewing Tower
32
- Approach path to Hill of Crosses
covered with myriads of crosses
33
- Path over Hill of Crosses
34
- Myriads of dedications
covering the Hill of Crosses
35
- Crosses and dedications
on Hill of Crosses
36
- More and more crosses every
year planted on the Hill of Crosses
37
- Shrove Tuesday festival masks
at Plateliai Ethnographical Museum
38
-
Winter
&
Spring
characters
in Shrove Tuesday celebrations
39
-
Rūpintojėlis
Sorrowful Christ
wooden shrine by Plateliai church
40
- Žemaitija farmstead with
stork's nest on power-pole
41
- Stork nesting on power-pole
by Žemaitija farmstead
42
- Paežere Camping among pine
forests on shore o
f Lake Platelių
43
- Missile silos at Plokštinė
Cold War Soviet missile base
44
- Silo lid withdrawal mechanism
at Plokštinė Soviet missile base
45
- Peering down into missile silo pit interior at Plokštinė
46
- Rusting silo superstructure
at Plokštinė missile base
47
- Sunset across Lake Platelių
viewed through the lakeside reeds
48
- Insects trapped in pine resin
and fossilized to form amber inclusion
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