Day 35. Hike in Verkiai Regional Park in Riešė Hydrographic Reserve (along the Riešė Stream bank) (Verkiai Regional Park: Part I)

Today I took part in a massive hike in Verkiai Regional Park (in LT) in Riešė Hydrographic Reserve along the bank of the Riešė Stream (in LT).

Info about the hike I've found on zygis.info and it was organized by Vilnius City Public Health Bureu.

Our hide guite was Mr. Marius Trapnauskas. Organizers state that hike was aproximatelly 10 km long, however my mobile phone states that we managed to march maximum 6 km.

Well, I not saying that my phone is smarter than the organizers, but organizers have to use some marketing tricks to attract more participants. Hey people: WE WILL MARCH 10 km! WE WILL BURN A LOT OF CALLORIES!

The hike was totally for free. 
Starting point: Žaliųjų Ežerų str. 85

Since the hike was for free, few hundreds of hikers gathered. to be sincere, I really didn't like that. Even some foreign students were marching and Spanish girls were talking all the time.

a dam on the Turniškės Stream

Our first stop was at Naujieji Verkiai Paper Factory (in LT). A hike guide started to tell us about the factory but it could be heard nothing. There were too many people.

Naujieji Verkiai Paper Factory

 The Riešė Stream is absolutely beautiful and it has very picturesque banks. About Riešė Hydrographic Reserve (inLT) I will tell later. The route was nice and interesting and not so easy as I thought at first. A path was very narrow in some places so marching jams were formed due to a huge number of hikers.

The Riešė Stream

The next and the last stop was on the Neris bank,  somethere between Naujieji Verkiai and Ozkiniai, I guess it was Staviškės. We had lunch there.

The Neris 

I wonder why we didn't go on the Staviškių Mound (Piliakalnis) (in LT). We were close to it. Maybe the hike guide said somtehing about it, but I was too far to hear anything.
Also, since I was far from the guide I even didn't realize where Staviškiu pilkapynas was.

Calthas (Marsh marigold) in bloom

The route took us approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes and it started at 2 p.m.

At 6 p.m. we had the first thunder in a new season 2016 in Vilnius!!! :) As it is said you can go swimming after the first thunder. Let's jump to the Salotė Lake!
And at 8:30 p.m. we had a first rainbow in the sky in season 2016!
well, sorry for my deviations from the main topic ...

The first rainbow of 2016

So, on the whole, I can say that the route was abolutely fine and nice, but a number of hikers was unconvenient.

Pictures taken by hike participants - here.

I will go back there on my own and I will visit objects which were ignored today and I will tell more about this hike. And it should be not far away in the future because I will forget the route.

Untill the next time, then!
to be continued ...

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