Botanical garden

The botanical garden south of the city centre, nearby the 19th century Tiskeviciai Palace, is a good place for calming down and stroll in the forestry consisting fir and pine trees. Garden covers about 100 hectares and its collection consists 250 imported and 370 native plant species. Here is a rose garden, greenhouse, rotunda, few gazepos and the statue representing mythical serpent queen Egle. During the summer garden hosts several concerts and festivals. Nearby is the sand dune called Birute’s Hill, which is topped with a chapel dedicated to Saint George

Amber Museum

Nearby the botanic garden, in address 17 Vytauto Street, there is the gorgeous Neo-Renaissance Tiskeviciai Palace build in 19th century. Palace is housing the Amber Museum, which is dedicated to amber as an important Baltic export and gem material. The museum collection consists about 28, 000 amber pieces, including 15,000 inclusions with insects, other animals and plants. The park of the palace is the beautiful oasis for strolling.

Shopping

• Baltijos Aukas shopping center (Vytauto gatvė 66) is a place for looking souvenirs. Specially high-quality amber jewelry here is eye-catching.
• Basanavicius Street running between Vytauto Street and the pier has many souvenir shops. Most of the bars, night clubs and funfairs are also concentrated on this streer and it is the center of town’s nightlife.
• Amber Stalls sells jewelries and gold objects.
• Supermarket Maxima is the largest shop in Palanga, from which you can get foodstuff. There are no restaurants.
• Supermarket Iki is located a little bit more far away from the center. Near the bus station you will find two supermarkets, from which the other one is a little bit smaller.