Biržai Regional Park Visitor Centre
The Biržai Regional Park boasts a unique landscape, exceptional natural phenomena, glorious history, cherished old traditions, handicrafts, culinary heritage, and local brewing traditions. It was established in 1922 with a purpose of conserving, enhancing and promoting rational use of a unique karst landscape, natural ecosystem, and cultural heritage. Biržai Regional Park (14,405.80 hectares) offers a variety of recreational and educational opportunities.
Visitor Centre at the Biržai Regional Park. Upon entering the Centre, you will immediately begin to feel a sense of being in a sinkhole. In a reception-room, embossed glass elements represent the structure of sinkhole slopes: a cross-section shows rock strata exposed following a landslide. The ceiling also depicts the interior of a sinkhole. There are interactive displays entitled ‘Development of Sinkholes’ and ‘Ecosystem of Karst Lakes’, an installation functioning like a hourglass that imitates the collapse of the land surface forming a sinkhole, and other installations feature the sinkhole before and after the collapse, which helps to understand natural phenomena occurring in the region of Biržai. The second hall offers a rich collection of minerals and rocks of the region. A fascinating interactive exhibition featuring a core sample obtained by drilling with special drills into the sediment or rock gives to visitors a vivid impression of a scale of the depth of drill hole and visualise the bedrock strata.
Biržai Regional Park offers to travel to „Earth Museum“. This tourist route will give you the chance to walk half a kilometer long footbridge over the lake Širvėna, to see Astravas palace and it‘s park, the old dam, Karajimiškis landscape reserve with unique karstic sinkholes, Kirkilai karstic sinkholes – the karstic lakes. Excursion time – about 3 hours, route length – about 20 km.
Tours must be booked in advance by calling +370 608 51598 (in english) or +370 687 58343 (in russian or latvian).
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Coordinates: 56.202485, 24.755348
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May – September |
I-IV 8.00 - 17.00 |
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October – April |
II-V 8.00 - 17.00 Lunch break 12:00-12:30 VI 10.00 - 15.00 Without lunch break |
Museum of the Depths of the Earth
We invite you to visit Biržai and travel around the 'Museum of the Depths of the Earth'! The tour starts at the Biržai Regional Park Visitor Center. After visiting the exposition, drive to the pedestrian bridge over Lake Širvėna. On foot, a 0.5 km long wooden bridge leads to the park of Astravas manor, the central accent of which is the palace of Counts Tiškevičius. Driving along the inspected dam and winding road between the old watery ruins, one goes to the karst lakes of Kirkilas, later we visit Karajimiškis, where you can see an impressive sinkhole with the famous legendary “business card” of the park - Karvė Cave. The tour ends with a visit to the new "Badger Cave" cognitive-geological trail.
The distance of the route is 20 km, the duration of the tour is 3 hours.
The Edge of the Passing Earth
We invite you to get acquainted with the "Land of the Rising Land"! An exposition with the theme “Land of the Meaningful Land” is presented at the Visitors' Center of Biržai Regional Park. After visiting the exposition, the road between the old watery ruins leads to Kirkilas, where the karst lakes of Kirkilas are located, later Karajimiškis is visited, where the new “Barsuko Cave” cognitive-geological trail and an impressive sinkhole with the famous legendary “visit” are visited. The tour ends with a visit to the Smardone spring, the name of which has not been coined.
The distance of the route is 21 km, the duration of the tour is 2.5-3 hours.
Excursion guides in Directorate of Biržai regional park:
- director Kestutis Baronas (lithuanian, latvian, russian);
- chief specialist Danutė Kondrotienė (lithuanian, english);
- chief specialist Tomas Vilkas (lithuanian, russian);
- ecologist Indrė Vėtaitė (lithuanian).
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LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE |
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Excursion(2-3 h) |
groups of up to 20 persons |
10 Eur |
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groups from 21 persons |
0,5 Eur |
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| Introduction of exposition (~1 h) |
groups of up to 10 persons |
5 Eur |
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| groups from 11 persons |
0,5 Eur |
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE |
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Excursion(2-3 val.) |
groups of up to 20 persons |
20 Eur |
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groups from 21 persons |
1 Eur |
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| Introduction of exposition (~1 h) |
groups of up to 10 persons |
10 Eur |
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groups from 11 persons |
1 Eur |
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VISITING THE EXPOSITION „REGION OF COLLAPSING GROUND“ WITHOUT A GUIDE IS FREE.
Tours must be booked in advance by calling +370 608 51598 or +370 687 58343.
Visitor tickets are distributed at national and regional park directorates, visitor centers, environmental and educational event venues, resorts, campsites, at nature trails, trails and elsewhere.
The visitor's ticket can also be purchased at Perlo terminals, Bilietai.lt and Tiketa.lt online ticket distribution systems, and at all Bilietai.lt and Tiketa ticket offices. Also in the free Tiketa app, which you can find in the Apple App Store or Google Play stores. Additional service charges apply.
More information - https://www.birzuparkas.lt/
