🇱🇹 LITHUANIA TRAVEL GUIDE/VLOG | Vilnius First Impressions + City/Sunset Views | EPISODE 1
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- What's in Vilnius, Lithuania? I decided to go visit myself and give you my first impressions of this quaint Baltic city and learn more about its people, culture, and food..
LITHUANIA TRAVEL VLOG/GUIDE: Vilnius First Impressions + Amazing Sunset Views | EPISODE 1
1. Flight to Vilnius, Lithuania (from Frankfurt, Germany)
2. Trying local Lithuanian coffee (at Caffeine)
3. Hiking up the Hill of the Three Crosses (great city views)
4. Vilnius views from Gediminas Castle Tower (great sunset views)
5. Lithuanian Cuisine (trying Cold Beetroot Soup + Cepelinai)
6. Vilnius First Impressions (Summary + Tips)
I loved my first few hours in Vilnius. Imagine what another full day of exploring could bring, tomorrow?
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Lithuania is my absolute favorite country in Europe, and I’ve done a lot of traveling.
We share the same sentiments! Vilnius is definitely a gem and must visit place in Europe! 😍🙏🏼
Hello from Vilnius. I have to agree with you that Vilnius is a very safe place. I've been living here for many years and I thought there's a big criminality rate until I went to London and Barcelona. These were two places in my whole life that someone tried to rob me and then I understood that the place where I live is really safe as there were not a single case when someone tried to rob me or to make harm in any other way.
I felt that Vilnius was safe during my entire 2-3 days there! Definitely a stark difference from other major European cities! 🙏🏼😁🇱🇹
@@TomSolfester But use Uber next time or call a taxi (or use app)when travelling from an airport as 12 euros might look cheap for you, but if fact you could have traveled for at least twice cheaper.
@Fonas Have you been at the bus station? I was robbed two times in my whole live and that happened near Vilnius bus station. Both times. At First I lost my wallet, after while I lost my phone. Also I know people who also lost money or something in that shity place. So many gypsies, eastern slavs, junkies, sluts there. You need to be very careful. Of course Vilnius generally is safe place, but there is some places like bus/train station where you need to watch yourself. I can't believe it Šimašius doesn't do anything. He's mayor, isn't he?! It's shame of Vilnius. Many tourist came by bus or train..
Heading to Vilnius, LT in mid-September and just viewed your 2 RUclips videos on Vilnius,. We weren't planning on touring Trakai but after watching your video decided to add it to our itinerary. Also planning on dining at the restaurants that you recommended in Vilnius. Well done!
Thank you for watching! You will love Trakai! I hope you order the Cepelinai! 🙏🏼😁
Love how you put in our actuall language, with our salad dressing soup :D
I’m glad you liked it! 😍
Nice video! I am glad that you liked Vilnius. I am working in London, but my home in Vilnius.
Would love to go back again soon!! 🥰🥰🥰
I live in lithuania for ten years and noone ever disturbed my living hope you like it
Tom, thanks for visiting my city! Thanks for nice words! If you like nice sunset shots, you should visit Vilnius TV tower restaurant. Of course, then the sky is clear - it is really super nice!
Thank you Artas! I definitely want to come back again soon! Vilnius is amazing! 😍🙏🏼
Lovely! Very nice of you to be so informative in this video.
Thank you very much! Hope you enjoyed the video! 🙏🏼😁
Glad you added about solo eating because I love travelling solo but have that uncomfortable feeling eating on my own. Heading to Vilnius in a week and found this vlog very helpful, thanks.
Yes I completely understand, eating solo can be awkward at times. Enjoy Vilnius! You’ll have a blast! 🙏🏼😁
@@TomSolfester I did have a blast, it was very cold but had a great time
I'm glad you liked our country :) Nice video
It was amazing Donatas, would love to come back again in the future! 😍👌🏼🇱🇹
@@TomSolfester Tom, do you use color adjustments in a software before uploading to youtube? Because your videos have over saturated green color and weird blue (when you capturing the sky). Its like cyan
Only brightness adjustment however I’ve noticed that some of my videos do look over saturated after uploading to YT. I even look like I have lipstick on sometimes lol! Not sure why tbh 🤷🏻♂️✌🏼
in Lithuania you can get prepaid 4g card with 8gb, unlimited sms, and 150min for 3.5eur... and we have one of the fastest internet in the world ;)
Wow that’s amazing! Thank you for this info, I really should have done this instead! 🙏🏼😁
I intend to visit Vilnius in October. Your video was very informative. Thank you for sharing your experience. Vilnius seems to be a very charming and affordable European city.
By the way, you're very friendly and kind.
Aww thank you Márcio! You will love Vilnius when you visit! Hope you get to watch Episode 2, should be out within the next week where I bring you to Trakai and show you more of Old City Vilnius. 😁✌🏼🇱🇹
Loved ur vlog! Keep it up!
Aww thank you so much for your amazing comment! 🙏🏼😁
Lovely vid, thoughtful and interesting in your approach, thanks so much for posting. I'm going to a wedding there in June and it was super useful, happy travels :)
Thank you Helen! June will be perfect to go the weather will be great! Enjoy your trip and thanks for watching! 🙏🏼😁
A2:Happy new year🙏Nice video beautiful sharing myfriend😉
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i like👏✌
Happy New Year! Thank you for your kind words! 🙏🏼😁
I think that Vilnius is one of the few places in Europe where it's a pure European experience. I'm personally not a fan of multiculturalism, especially like it's shoved down the throat in western Europe. That's what I love about the city ant the country as a whole. It's a true European experience. I moved here a few years ago and didn't look back.
Looking back, I completely agree with you! Vilnius has its own distinct way of showing your Europe that’s not “in your face” and dramatised. Loved my visit! Thanks for watching Simon! 🙏🏼😁
@@TomSolfester No need to thank me, you make excellent content and should have more subscribers. I very much despise falseness and you seem very genuine. Honestly it was quite refreshing.
Well it's only so not-multicultural because nobody really wants to live there, right? I mean, the reason why most of Europe is so diverse is that is so rich. You also probably moved there because of a job, right?
@@TimmmTim No Europe is so multicultural because it social policy in the western part. Japan is rich, Korea is rich and they are the least multicultural places in the world. People in the west have a cultural, identity and political crisis. The have zero faith in their own culture that's why they are so multicultural. It's like a slow spreading cancer.
Your comment is kind of correct and not at the same time. Lithuania historically was very ethnically and culturally diverse, traces of it still exist today - Lithuania had many cultures within itself, with Baltic, Germanic, Slavic, Jewish and Muslim being the most prevalent, and they did have an impact on the Lithuanian culture as a whole. Nowadays Lithuania isn't that diverse anymore because of historical reasons, but yeah, we don't blow multiculturalism out of proportion.
I do live in Lithuania, Mažeikiai ( 8th largest in here ) if you come to here again then I wiuld show you around Mažeikiai. The best yime is in December since I would have around 2 weeks of free time
Oh wow thank you Sergej! I’ve just looked it up and I see that your city has its own Eiffel Tower. Amazing! 😱👍🏼😍
@@TomSolfester Yea it does! And the shop is called "Eifelis"
I love it! :)
I from Lithuania!
Welcome!! Your country is so beautiful! 😁🙏🏼
ruge g I too in what city do you live in lithuania? p.s I'm in Kaunas
Vilnius
I noticed that there were no unnecessary faces captured, was it a hard thing to make the final cut of the video?
The pronounciation of the native words is also very nice, even with the three ė's you still did quite great :o
Thanks for all of this, greetings from Vilnius :)
Thank you! I’m always worried iv mispronounced something because it could mean something else, hehe. I really hope to come back to Vilnius again! 🙏🏼😁
Thank you for a nice review of this small country. I will put my few cents. Foreign tourists often refer to this country as "obscure place, not popular by tourists" however this is not true. You see, you got yourself an easy connection from fankfurt, convenient transport around the city, you had a choice of pretty nice hotel and you had food and coffee on every corner. Obscured countries do not have all that, or maybe not on that level. In spite tourists (that come in numbers) often refer to Lithuania as not touristy place, this country receives over 4 million tourists a year, which is a million more than the population here. Yes France and Spain get way more tourists but they have population of 40 - 60 million people, Lithuania has just under 3 million. So tourism per capita here is just as normal as anywhere in europe (or close to that). It is not overwhelming but definitely not obscured. The country boasts international tourism centers in more than 60 cites and towns which is enormous for a small country. There is wide range of hotels at all tastes. wifi and mobile network covers 90% of the territory, which is more than in many other countries. There are 3 international airports. People speak English in all service places. I think it is pretty touristy and developed for a size of this place. Apart of that your video is amazing, thank you so much:-)
Thank you for your insight Markus! Would love to come back again in 2021! 🙏🏼🤩
I'll be there exactly 12 months after the upload of your vid.
Great! Are you excited? I’m actually excited for you, I’d love to go back to Vilnius! ☺️😁
@@TomSolfester I'm jumping out of my skin! It's my 2nd time. This time I'm going with my daughter & cousin.
I’m from Lithuania 🇱🇹
Welcome! 🙏🏼😁
Nice video Tom, subscribed!
Definitely on the list of places to visit soon.
Feel free to give some feedback on my stuff.
And to all the ones watching, have a beautiful day!
Thank you! You’ll love Vilnius! Heading over to your channel now! 🙏🏼😁
I am from Lithuania so I know haw it is
I like your eyebrows 😉
Hehe thank you Abby! 🤭🙏🏼
I'm sorry to see that as a local, but you probably been scammed by a taxi driver, normal price to get to the center is 4-6 eur with taxi (from airport to the city center, because airport is pretty much in the city). You can also use uber or bolt(uber alternative) apps, it's probably cheapiest and easiest way. :)
I don’t think this was a scam, but thank you for shedding light that your countrymen try to scam foreigners.. Was trying my best to show the best sides of Vilnius and it’s people.. Airport taxis are always more expensive in all major cities around the world (we all know that), with Vilnius being the cheapest I’ve experienced so far. ✌🏼😁
@@TomSolfester maybe this wasn't a scam, but old taxi drivers in the airport were a problem here in Vilnius for a long time, howewer I really recommend to use uber or bolt app, it willl be cheaper, you will always get a report by email about travel time, price etc. and will not need any cah. Have a nice trip here in Vilnius, hope you will like it ! :)
Nr 1 rule here is DO NOT use local airport taxi in Vilnius. It's been a huge problem here for a very long time and even city mayor can't properly deal with them. If you see an old taxi guy at the airport with a cigarette between his teeths and you hear russian radio playing in his car just run away from him cuz you will definetely be scammed. Just use Uber next time.
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you should try drinking with lithuanians not our food. I bet you 1k you will be out in half an hour :D
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you overpaid for taxi. Usually it's 3-4 Euro.
arriving in 1991 for the first time had every thing stolen from me the stotis railway station watch out for the alkhoholics