Our first day in Palūšė :D

Palūšė is a village in 10-minutes by foot from the National Park. We saw a wonderful natural places and a real Lithuanian fishing! Only a few fishermen and the companies have a permit for net fishing. Others wishing to have the fish go followed these fishermen with the hope that the catch will be great, and they will be able to buy fish from fishermen.

We also followed the fishermen. It is amazing! We wanted to taste the popular fish too. The fish is called -European korushka….maybe it is smelt in English! It smells like a fresh cucumber and people can cook this fish very easily. The magic fish! In order to catch them the fishermen come up with a whole complex system with long tree trunks - stretched under water, with pine branches, with a net and with a few holes in the ice. It's a pity that  we finally couldn't buy any fish. But we will try. If the fishermen will not sell to us at least a kilo of fish, we will come to them in nightmaresJ

After an unsuccessful fishing FOR US)), we went for a walk to the nearby village of Meironys. Very beautiful small village! The neat little houses of wood. Almost all the houses are without fences. This means that people trust each other. The village has beautiful traditional wooden sculptures. For example, this sculpture tells a story about St. George who killed the dragon and rescued the girl. In the Lithuanian language, such sculptures are called  “stogastulpiai”.

At the end of the day we met travelers from Canada – Fanny and Catherine. They are going to Tibet. We spent evening with them. It was very interesting!

New places, new people, new emotions, impressions…It is so good!  We had fantastic day! :D