Showing posts with label Lithuania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lithuania. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Get cheap airline fares to Luxembourg

Luxembourg also known as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a little country in west Europe, with Belgium, France, and Germany on the borders. Luxembourg has a population of less than half a million people in an area of about 2,586 square kilometres or 999 square miles.

Luxembourg is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy, ruled by a Grand Duke. It is the only sovereign Grand Duchy left in the world. The country has a well developed economy. Luxembourg is a founding member of the European Union, the Western European Union, the United Nations, NATO and Benelux. The city of Luxembourg, which happens to be the capital as well as the largest city, is the base of many organizations and activities of the European Union.

Luxembourg is a multilingual country with German, French and Luxembourgish being the official languages. Although Luxembourg is secular, it is mainly Roman Catholic.

Luxembourg's international airport (LUX) also known as Findel, is situated about five kilometers or 3.5 miles north-east of the Capital at a height of 1234 feet. The official website of LUX shows two airport webcams. Visitors may find the Luxair website to be of great interest as it enumerates all the airline flights plying to and from the LUX airport. If you need to telephone them, just call +352 2456-1.

The international flight from LUX of shortest duration is only 49 miles. The longest international flight out of Luxembourg is about 1,912 miles. There are as many as 16,629 international flights per week out of Luxembourg airport. Kilroy Travels provides you with cheap airline fares to nearly every destination around the globe… Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia and many more. Alltravelluxembourg.com gives you information about airline flights to and from Luxembourg and around the world with reservations, tickets, timings, bookings et al.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Lithuania – a great travel destination

Lithuania, officially known as the Republic of Lithuania is a country variably said to be part of Eastern or Northern Europe. Located on the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, sharing boundaries with Latvia on the northern side, Belarus one the southeastern side, Poland and Russia on the southwestern side. Lithuania belongs to the NATO and the European Union as well.

Its population is approximately 3.4 million. The largest city and capital of Lithuania is Vilnius. The climate shuttles between maritime and continental, with summers and wet, temperate winters. Lithuania today has one of the quickest growing economies in the European Union. On 21 December 2007, Lithuania became a full member of the Schengen Agreement. In 2009 Lithuania will celebrate a thousand years of its name.

Lithuania is a country with a high average income and takes pride in a well developed up to date network of railways, airports and four lane highways. Lithuania has a very high employment rate, with just 2.9% unemployed. The EU membership propelled a flourishing economy, augmented outsourcing within the country, and gave a boost to the tourism industry. The litas which is the national currency of Lithuania, has been attached to the Euro from February 2, 2002 at this rate : EUR 1.00 = LTL 3.4528, and Lithuania is expected to change over to the Euro completely in 2010.

The travel guide for Lithuania gives you information about the land and people, the time and climate, the culture, the population, the history, geography and the main cities.

There are many an online travel guide that specialises in discount airfares, arranges travel, tours and accommodation in destinations like Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and the Ukraine. So what are you waiting for? Book your vacation at the lowest airfares with your favourite travel guide!!

Get great travel deals to Palanga

The town of Palanga-Klaipeda, is situated in the western region of Lithuania, close to the Baltic Sea. The sandy beach goes on for more than ten kilometers edged by pine tree forests and sand dunes. Palanga-Klaipeda is a beach resort famous for its mineral and thermal baths.

During summer, Palanga-Klaipeda becomes a hub of amusement and ethnic events. Among the people holidaying there you will find tourists who have come in from Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia and Germany. People are constantly coming to Palanga-Klaipeda to unwind and have a great holiday, sunbathe, enjoy the sea and the sand and amuse themselves.

The Palanga-Klaipeda Airport (PLQ) is not very big. The airport infrastructure allows for handling of small and medium sized aircrafts. It has been found that ever since 1993 the number of commuters at PLQ has been increasing every year. After Lithuania joined the European Union the amount of commuters at PLQ in the year 2004 shot up more than 60 % as compared to those in 2003. Over 200 employees are engaged in the airport facilities at PLQ.

Flights from PLQ are operated on a regular schedule by airlines like SAS, Norwegian Air Shuttle and flyLAL. Airline flight destinations from PLQ include London in England, Oslo in Norway, Copenhagen in Denmark and Dublin in Ireland. If you plan good connecting flights from PLQ with SAS you can get to many cities in Europe via Copenhagen.

If you browse the Net a little you will find that you can get some really cheap airline flight tickets. Skyscanner will get you the best travel deals, whether it is for a holiday, a quick business trip or a weekend break decided on spontaneously. There are a whole lot of other online sites which will also help you get some great travel deals.

Vacation in Vilnius

For your vacations you could choose from places like the ancient UNESCO World Heritage town of Vilnius, Tallinn or Riga where you will find several restaurants, clubs and glamorous resorts to choose from and you can get there with the lowest fares possible.

Vilnius, with a population of 553,904 in December 2005, is the largest city and capital of Lithuania and is known to be a beauty of Eastern and Middle Europe. Vilnius is also the capital of Vilnius County and is the seat of both the Vilnius city municipality and Vilnius district municipality.

Today, Vilnius has been quickly changed and the once small town has come forward as an advanced European city. A lot of its ancient structures have been undergone renovation, and the New City Center is being developed into a commercial and business area, hoping to become the city's main managerial and trading district to the north of the river Neris. Vilnius aims to be the capital of European Culture by 2009. To promote this event, the city’s historical centre has been renovated and its main monuments have been restored.

The Vilnius International Airport (VNO) is located four miles or seven kilometers to the south of Vilnius. A bus service connects the VNO to the railway station, and another runs from the VNO to the city centre and suburbs, roughly every 15 minutes. A minibus service is also available from the bus stop outside the Arrivals terminal of the VNO covering various routes through the city and outskirts. Taxis are plentiful outside arrivals, and are relatively cheap.

The website vilnius-hotels.net offers low airline fares from any U.S. location to Vilnius, Lithuania. There are also a lot of other sites on the Net which assist individuals or tour groups going on vacations to take advantage of the lowest fares available. You can plan your vacations with any of the top online travel planners that bring everything from travel tickets, lodging and tours under one roof.