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Travel - International
AIR: The national airline, Lithuanian Airlines (TE), flies from Vilnius to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt/M, Helsinki, Kiev, London, Madrid, Manchester, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn and Warsaw. Other airlines offering connections to Vilnius include Aeroflot, Austrian Airlines, Air Baltic, British Airways, Estonian Air, Finnair, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa and SAS. For further information, contact Lithuanian Airlines in the UK (tel: (020) 8759 7323; fax: (020) 8745 7346); or Air Lithuania in Kaunas (e-mail: sales@airlithuania.lt; website: www.airlithuania.lt/). Air Lithuania offers flights from Kaunas and Palanga to Billund, Cologne, Oslo, Hamburg, Moscow and Kristianstad.
APPROXIMATE FLIGHT TIMES: From Vilnius to London is 3 hours, to Copenhagen is 1 hour 30 minutes and to Berlin is 1 hour 20 minutes.
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS: Vilnius Airport (VNO) (website: www.vilnius-airport.lt) is situated approximately 6km (3.5 miles) from the city centre. There are taxi and bus services to the city (journey time -10 minutes). Airport facilities include duty-free shop, banks/bureaux de change (24-hour), refreshments and tourist information.
There are also international airports in Kaunas and Palanga; the latter serves the whole of the Baltic coast.
DEPARTURE TAX: US$10.
SEA: Klaipeda is connected by trade routes with 200 foreign ports. There are ferry services to Denmark, Germany and Sweden. For information on ferry services from Klaipeda, contact Krantas Shipping (tel: (6) 395 111; fax: (6) 395 222; e-mail: travel@krantas.lt; website: www.krantas.lt). At present, there are services to Ahus, Karlshamm in Sweden; Aarhus and Aabenraa in Denmark; and to Kiel and Mukran in Germany.
RAIL: Lithuania has a well-developed rail network and Vilnius is the focal point for rail connections in the region. Major routes go to Riga, Warsaw, Sczecin, Minsk, Kaliningrad, St Petersburg, Moscow and Lviv (Ukraine). Vilnius has passenger train connections with Berlin, Budapest, Prague, Sofia through Belarus and a direct connection with Suwalki (Poland).
ROAD: Lithuania has a good network of roads connecting the country with all neighbouring states. The crossing points on the Lithuanian-Polish border are Ogrodniki (Poland)-Lazdijai (Lithuania) and for trucks at Kalvarija (Lithuania). There are numerous crossing points with Latvia, Belarus and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. The international road Via Baltica goes from Tallinn to Warsaw through Latvia and Lithuania, thus connecting Scandinavia with Western Europe. Coach: There are passenger coaches from Vilnius to cities including Warsaw, Gdansk, Riga, Tallinn, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, Prague, Minsk and Kaliningrad. Charter buses go to all Western European countries.
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