Tour to Nida
 The Curonian Spit (Kuršių Nerija) is a brilliant creation of people and nature that was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000. The Curonian Spit is a 98 km long and 0.4 to 4 km wide elongated peninsula outstretching through the territories of two states, the Republic of Lithuania and the Russian Federation (Kaliningrad Region). Lithuania occupies 50 km of the northern part of the peninsula and this part will only be referred to.  The architecture of all the four settlements of Neringa ( Nida, Preila, Pervalka, and Juodkrantė) is absolutely fascinating. One can’t help admiring the blue-window-paned ethnographic homesteads of fishermen, the contemporary cottages that have taken over the ethnographic style, and the old villas decorated with wooden tracery in Juodkrantė.
The Curonian Spit boasts its fish, a genuine delicacy for gourmands, which is smoked according to the ancient recipes of the Curonian fishermen.
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann had visited Nida for the first time in 1929. In his memoirs later he wrote: “We had spent several days in Nida’s fishermen’s village and were so much thrilled by indescribable originality and beauty of that nature, by fantastic world of wandering dunes, and by elks living in the pinewoods, that we decided to purchase a permanent residence.”
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