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OFFERS FOR TRAVELERS • NATURE TREASURES
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ŠIAULIAI UNIVERSITY BOTANICAL GARDEN
The beautiful garden with blooming plants of 4600
species and breeds can melt the heart. Although we do
not have mountains, this botanical garden has the lar-
gest and most abundant collection of mountain plants
from all over the world in the Baltic States – the pride
of the city!
A visitor can familiarise both with separate plants and
see their communities that are close to natural. The
Botanical Garden organises sightseeing and educati-
onal seminars, educational sessions, festivities, and
concerts.
Paitaičių St. 4, Šiauliai
55.932808, 23.283203
+370 659 93 748
bs.su.lt

SKAISTGIRYS RECREATION AREA AND OBSERVATION TOWER
The recreation area on a hillock, located in the very
centre of Skaistgirys town, is equipped with a free-of-
charge barefoot trail, sculptures of various birds, chil-
dren’s playgrounds, and an observation tower, which
outlooks the Semigallian plains and neighbouring do-
lomite quarries.
Draugystės St., Skaistgirys, Joniškis dist.
56.303688, 23.381963
visitjoniskis.lt

KRIAUČIUS STONE
Kriaučius stone (Tailor’s Stone) lies in a flat ploughed
field, near the road Kražiai-Jauniškė, almost on the top
of a streamlined 157-meter-high hillock. This boulder
is the third largest in Lithuania. The length of the boul-
der is 7,84 metres; its width, 7,65 metres; and height,
over 4 metres; the maximum horizontal circumference
is 23,2 metres. This boulder (more precisely, its small
upper part protruding above the ground) has long
been known to the locals. However, only in 1974, the
reclamators working here pushed the ground with a
bulldozer for the first time and exposed the rear of the
boulder more widely. In 1989, using pulley blocks with
arm-thick ropes and two anchors dug in the ground,
borrowed from the Mažeikiai Oil Refinery, the boulder
was pulled out to the surface and dragged to the ne-
arest hillock in Vileikiai village.
Vileikiai village, Kelmė dist.
55.5455235,22.7588868