Previously on 365 days in Vilnius
Quite a good day for a Saturday Hike.
Old Villages hiking trail (or a Cognitive Path or a Cognitive Trail) was opened in Fall of 2020, so it's the newest trails for hikers in Vilnius.
Series of: #HikesinVilnius
It begins exactly just like my hike from 2016 hike in verkiai regional park.
Trail goes trought Verkių Riešė aka Rzesza Werkowska - Staviškės aka Stawiszki - Turniškės (on the right bank of the Neris) with impressive views on the Neris - further - Krempliai - and finally, Naujieji Verkiai Paper Manucatury.
Trail is about 10 km long and it took me 3 hours (but I had only 1 short 5 minutes break).
On the whole 10 km you will find only 2 benches for rest. So the rest stops are your problem.
The trail partially coincides with Turniškės trail.
On one section of the trail I was last Saturday when I was wandering on the Turniškės trail.
The passsage trought the Turniškė stream near the 2nd Turniškės Pond is totally bad, and since yestarday it was raining, I didn't manage to go to the other side without without staying dry.
My shoes got wet and so dirty. As coach Schiller would say: They are extremely dirty.
People living there are local Poles and you hardly find any Lithuanian speaker there.
* The same evening LRT Panorama commented that Lithuanian Poles and Russians and Belorussians, all non-lithuanians living in the South-East Lithuania kind of unloyal to Lithuania. They follow and believe Rusisna news. But it's states fault. The Lithuanain State failed to integrate all these citizens into society during these 30 years.
This is a time when Yellow anemones and Common Wood Sorrel are blooming.
On some passages you will meet other hikers.
The last section of the trail is straith and it goes trought the Verkiai Forest.
next spot: Verkiai Manor!
