My main reason to come to Klaipeda was to visit the Curonian Spit. This is a peninsular of about 100km length and only between 400m and 4km width. It is connected to the land close to Kaliningrad and separated by about 300m of water at Klaipeda. Half of the peninsular is Russian and half of it is Lithuanian, both parts are national parks.
I rented a bike at my hostel and went on a ferry to bring me to Nida which is the last village on the Lithuanian part of the peninsular. From there, I went by bike back to the northern end and with a very short ferry trip back to Klaipeda.
The whole trip by bike was about 60km, but it was surprisingly easy so I think I had tailwind most of the time. Of course, I was still exhausted in the end because I’m not used to biking that much anymore. The weather was not that great unfortunately. At least it didn’t rain, but most of the time it was grey and a bit cold. The nature in the national park was still very beautiful!
