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€ 55
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In 2010 the crazy Grūtas Park was officially declared to be one of 10 the strangest museums in the World.
There is no doubt that Druskininkai is an appreciable holiday resort, but tourists often take our tour to the neighboring Grūtas Park too. The park is famous for over fifty different sculptures of Soviet leaders posing in various manners. The sculptures reveal the comical and hyperbolical former worship of Soviet political cult figures. Nowadays visitors walking the pathways and trails cleared all along the way in the outside exhibition can see number of busts, statues of Lenin and various other relicts of Soviet times. To recreate the atmosphere and the environment of a concentration camp, Grūtas Park also has a watchtower and a trench in it.
The entire look of Grūtas Park closely resembles Siberia as watchtowers, fragments of lagers and other Soviet elements are scattered all around the territory of the Grūtas Parkwhich occupies the area of twenty hectares. |
In order to strengthen the impressions, visitors are also able to enjoy a typical Soviet meal right here. The mushroom based food courses are very popular here. The dishes are more commonly known as Gulag food. The special Russian menu attracts people as for some it seems to be an exotic one, for others – nostalgic, but whatever the feeling caused would be, there are never indifferent ones left.
Once, the establisher of Grūtas Park, former wrestler and Lithuanian entrepreneur Viliumas Malinauskas called the Grūtas Park Stalin’s World. That created an unofficial basis for the Grūtas Park to sound synonymous with the world famous parks like Disney Land and Sea World. That undoubtedly is a very good rating. Grūtas Park is 130 kilometers far from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania and only 8 kilometers far from Druskininkai city, which is also called the Lithuanian spa town. |
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LOCATION: Close to Druskininkai. 130 km from Vilnius
DURATION: 6 hr (including drive)
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SEASON: April - October
WHATS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE: Entrance / Tour Guide / Return transfers
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