The Curonian split. Dunes. Neringa

There are some places in the world that steal your heart and soul away. Anywhere you go as time pass by, you want to come back to the place where for the first time in your life you knew an amazing new feeling as you savour the unforgettable charm of the dunes during the sunset and hear the play in pinewoods.. No words can describe It. Or only one... Harmony... Harmony between man and the nature... For me one of these places is Neringa.



Neringa municipality (Lithuanian: Neringos savivaldybė) is a municipality in westernmost Lithuania, in the Curonian Spit. It´s called Neringa city, altrough there was never a true city there. It consisit of few villages like Nida, Preila, Pervalka and Juodkrantė.

The Curonian Spit is a narrow sand peninsula of 98 km of length, which divides the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. This is a fragile nature, which requests a considerable and constant attention. In the South, Lithuanian part of the Spit borders with Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. The borderline marks the external borders of the European Union.
According to the origin and composition the Spit is comprised of natural and human-made complex sections of protective dune-ridge. These various forms were created by waves, wind and the human, which were also helped by the sand grains of various sizes, flora and its distribution, angles and height of dune-ridge‘s slopes, and position of the ridge according to the coastline and its inner composition.
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The thunder rolls And the lightnin' strikes
Another love grows cold On a sleepless night
As the storm blows on Out of control
Deep in her heart The thunder rolls

Garth Brooks

Some pictures are by Gaga Nielsen