Curonian Spit, this is the sandy peninsula and the national park at the same time, which separates the Baltic Sea from the Freshwater Curonian Bay. It looks like a Curonian braid, like a sandy shore with a different width of four hundred meters to four kilometers. The length of the braid is ninety-eight kilometers. It is noteworthy that the territory of the braid, belongs to two countries - Lithuania and Russia. For both two centuries, the Curonian Spit attracts holidaymakers from Germany, Lithuania and Russia. What a tourist in these places like is great beaches and amazing nature. On one day, you can swim in the saline water of the Baltic Sea and in the fresh waters of the Curonian Gulf. It also deserved its popularity, thanks to the fact that there are almost always excellent weather. But, not only for good weather, tourists come here. In these places there are many very interesting sights, the truth is mostly natural, but the beauty of these places does not decrease, but the opposite increases. That's what I will see you briefly write.
Dancing forest . There is this forest, directly in the territory of the National Park, which we talk about today. Its name, the forest received for the reason that almost all pines, if not all of them, they have an uneven shape of the trunk, which caused such an anomaly is unknown, but this is a reliable fact. It is also interesting that except pines, there are no other trees here, why it is also not known. Environmentalists argue that the dancing forest is a very fragile and vulnerable place, but unfortunately not all tourists treat it seriously. In order to reduce the risk of damage to a minimum, they laid a special ecological pathway here, and walking strictly according to it, you can not fear that you will harm you by beauty.
Strange behavior of pines who do not want to grow smoothly, causes bewilderment not only among tourists, and also from scientists. There is a suggestion that everything has a special geomagnetic activity inherent in this area. According to another theory, this behavior of pines, caused by the interference of guests from other planets, but this is already at least ridiculous, but as a maximum, absurd. If you want to first see this mystery of nature, then you can easily get here to a taxi or bus.
Dune Efa . The peculiarity of this sand dune is that it is movable, as well as the highest on the spit. Many tourists call this place, the only European desert.
It's very easy to find a dune, because it is not far from the village of Marine, which is famous for its beauty. His beginning, the dune takes off the sixteenth kilometer of braids and further stretched along the entire bay. Why Dune gave this not quite a common name, I managed to find out, really not immediately. They called it in honor of the forester of Franz Efa, which in the local places, was engaged in learning and fixing moving sands. Thanks to the efforts, perseverance, stubbornness and works of this scientist, the threat was forever prevented, the onset of the dunes on the village of Marine.
The dune, has an impressive height that is sixty-four meters and you just imagine if this mahina suddenly starts to put on your home. Horror, and only! The dune not only managed to tame, but also to equip the observation platform, rising to which you can admire the amazing marine species.
Museum of Russian superstition . I like this name more, and it is also called the "Museum of Tree". This is pretty a small-sized museum in which the entire exposition is represented in several wood sculptures. Basic sculptures depict birds and animals. Sculptures are made of such species of trees like aspen, pine, birch, oak and rowan. In addition to wooden birds and animals, the museum collection includes more than forty bells, which are also made of wood. The museum's leadership came up with a completely familiar move, since all visitors can touch the exhibits, and the most visible, can even be purchased. Museum of superstition is located, in the most real wooden hut, very much like a fabulous. Near the hut, lavets are installed and you can sit on one of them, and imagine yourself with a hero or heroine, one of the Russian fairy tales and a Baba Yaga. Visit the museum is paid, but not expensive, since the price of one ticket is seventy rubles. Those who wish to make a memorable photo against the background of exhibits, must for this pleasure to pay a purely symbolic amount in the amount of thirty rubles. If you wish that you had a brief tour of the museum, then there will be no problems with this and the owner of the gallery itself will appear as a guide in front of you. The museum works every day, but the day off is on Monday.
Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh . This Orthodox Church is the main one, you can even say the cult, attraction of the village of Fisherman. This is not a simple church, since it has a very large architectural and historical value than she actually attracts hundreds of tourists from all over the post-Soviet space and not only. At the very beginning of its existence, and until recently, this building was Lutheran Kirch, and only recently it became the Orthodox Church. Built the shrine in 1873. Over the creation of the project and on the embodiment of it, the German architect of Tischer worked. We need to pay tribute to the Creator, because his brainchild has been perfectly preserved and in excellent condition reached the present day. The building looks quite massively. It is built from red bricks, and the top of it as a decor, adorns a small turret, which is quite in Lutheran style.
It is especially surprising that the temple has been preserved to the present day, if you know that at the time of the Great Patriotic War, the workshop was located in its walls, which was engaged in the production of fishing networks, and so continued until 1999. In the same 1999, the temple was rejected and called in honor of St. Sergius Radonezh. Surprisingly, right? The temple, for all his existence, never rebuilt and seriously not subjected to restoration.