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Jim's Tuesday Tour from Riga to Vilnius (One way)
Centra rajons
Important Information
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Don't take the bus to Vilnius. Take the road through a castle blown up in 1706, a Baroque palace that spent twenty-seven years as a grain store, a hillside of crosses the Soviets bulldozed three times, and a lost shtetl rebuilt from photographs.
Highlights
7 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
7 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Entrance to Rundāle Palace Museum
Bottled water, Coffee at Kalve in Āgenskalns Market, Latvian sklandrausis at Bauska Castle
Meals are at your own expense.
Castle in Bauskas is €9 if you wish to enter.
Meeting Points
Departure
Latvian Riflemen Monument
Return
Cathedral Square
Or your accommodation.
Jim's Tuesday Tour from Riga to Vilnius (One way)
Centra rajons
About
Don't take the bus to Vilnius. Take the road through a castle blown up in 1706, a Baroque palace that spent twenty-seven years as a grain store, a hillside of crosses the Soviets bulldozed three times, and a lost shtetl rebuilt from photographs.
Highlights
7 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
7 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Entrance to Rundāle Palace Museum
Bottled water, Coffee at Kalve in Āgenskalns Market, Latvian sklandrausis at Bauska Castle
Meals are at your own expense.
Castle in Bauskas is €9 if you wish to enter.
Meeting Points
Departure
Latvian Riflemen Monument
Return
Cathedral Square
Or your accommodation.
Itinerary
1
Agenskalns Market
I will collect our coffee and sklandrausis. Will be around 20 minutes.
20 minutes
2
Bauska Castle
Two castles on one spit of land, where the Mūsa and Mēmele meet to become the Lielupe. The Livonian Order raised the first in the 1440s, thick-walled and built for cannon; the dukes of Courland added a Renaissance palace beside it in the 1590s, with tiled stoves and stained glass. Retreating Russians blew up both in 1706 and left them for a century and a half. Climb the tower for the whole of Zemgale.
45 minutes
3
Rundale Palace Museum (Rundales Pils)
Rastrelli built this before he built the Winter Palace — it was his rehearsal, and it shows. Duke Ernst Johann von Biron began it in 1736, was arrested and exiled to Siberia in 1740 with the walls half up, and came back twenty-three years later to finish the job. By 1945 it was a grain store. Forty years of restoration brought it back; the gilt, the stucco and the roses are all where they should be.
1 hour and 15 minutes
4
Lunch! Classic spot.. the hunter's inn!
1 hour
5
There is not much here but a field and single monument, which is the point. On 22 September 1236 the Samogitians and Semigallians caught the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in swampy ground where armoured knights could not charge. The Master died with most of his order; one crusader in ten reached Riga. Within a year the survivors had been absorbed into the Teutonic Order, and thirty years of conquest along the Daugava came undone.
30 minutes
6
Hill Of Crosses (kryziU Kalnas)
No one planned it. After the 1831 uprising, families with no bodies to bury planted crosses on an old hillfort instead, and everyone who came after added one. The Soviets bulldozed the hill in 1961, 1973 and 1975 and burned what they cleared; each time the crosses were back within days. Today there are more than a hundred thousand, and on a windy day the rosaries hanging among them make a sound you don't forget.
1 hour
7
Šeduva was a shtetl — one of hundreds across Lithuania, a town where Jewish life was simply the life of the town. On 25 and 26 August 1941 its community was taken into the woods nearby and shot: 230 men, 275 women, 159 children. The museum that opened here in 2025 is not principally about that day. It is about everything before it — the shops, the arguments, the weddings, the ordinary mornings.
