Weekend

Hello everybody again.
So the weekend has started and we became a little bit lazy but now we are back so.

Friday. Trip to Kernave and Trakai.

In early morning we started our educational trip to Kernave cultural reserve and Trakai historical park. First object was Kernave where we were introduced with history of Kernave city and why it was important to lithuania unfortunately the museum was closed and we couldn't see all the artifacts but we could look around the fortifications.

 

 Everybody were interested in Kernave reserve. After brief of history everybody went to look around. It was a little bit cold on the hills but we managed to survive.

 Some of us were feeling like good :) some were trying to fly:)

 Spanish team enjoyed snow that was left on the fortifications.

 After Kernave we had a trip to Trakai city and Trakai castle. First we had a lunch in restaurant "Senoji kibininė" where we tasted traditional that region food kibin because in Trakai region lives little nationality Karim who are making them.

  

After lunch everybody was ready for the last invasion to Trakai castle. Where we got information about why it is important to Lithuania people and what was going on there when people where living in it.  

 For bad jobs somebody even got punished :)

 Of course we had very nice guide that told everything about castle's history and dukes of Lithuania.

Saturday. Trip to Pažaislis monastery and Kaunas old town

So on Saturday we had a trip to Pažaislis ensemble where Camaldolese monastery is. There we where introduced with history of monastery and very strict rules of monks' life. Because of very strict living only 6 monasteries of Camaldolesian monks are left in the world. Unfortunately no photos were allowed to take in the church and in the monastery so we can upload only some photos from the yard.

After Pažaislis ensemble we went back to the bus and started our trip to Kaunas old down where we visited some of first object was Kaunas castle which is one of the oldest masonry castles in the Lithuania

 

After Kaunas castle we visited St. Jurgis martyr Church which is near castle and then went to see Kaunas town hall  that is called "White Swan" and Vytautas church.

 And of course Together we Love Kaunas. So stay with us.