• “HEALTH RESORT DRUSKININKAI”. The excursion on foot. You will get to know the past and the future of the town. Monuments, mineral water, treatment… • A trip to the farmstead of FOLK-SCULPTOR A.CESNULIS by bus or car ( 4 km). You will visit a windmill serving as an exhibition site for his wooden sculptures. You can see an arbour, sculptural compositions along the Ratnycele river. The place is worth seeing. • A trip to LISKIAVA by bus or car ( 7 km). More than 300 years old baroque church and monastery which is a hotel now. Under the church there is a museum of sacred things and mummies of dominican monks. You will climb up the mound and see the unfinished castle of the 15 century. • A trip to MERKINE by bus or car( 28 km). The mound and its former wooden castle has been of a great importance in the Medieval history of Lithuania. The historical museum. The hill of crosses. The visit to the potters place of black pottery. • A trip to DZUKIJA NATIONAL PARK by bus or car ( 40 km). The village Marcinkonys at its ethnografical museum. The village Zervynos and the spring “Ulas eye”. • A trip to the village RICIELIAI ( 15 km). The story of flax. You will see scutching, combing and spinning and try your hand at it.
EXCURSIONS FOR STUDENTS Summer: Honey taking. Honey and cottage cheese tasting. Also fresh milk tasting. Sweet cheese making. Bread and butter making.
Fishing contest. Winter: Hourse sledge ride.
Ice-fishing. After that going to country cottage, chowder cooking.
Excurtions all year around:
Pancake baking. Pancake baking and tasting with jam or honey, milk.
Paper making.
Bread baking.
Mask making from paper.
Paintig in nature.
Making pictures (floristic).
Wood and clay art.
Millstone examine ... and other
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