Šventoji Resort Town | Lithuania by drone

We fly over Šventoji, telling the story of how this resort was developed by the Soviet Union into a unique resort of small huts where trade unions would send worker families to. We see how Šventoji looks today: its new massive church, one of the largest Pagan shrines in Lithuania, as well as modern restaurants of its main drag and the iconic Monkey Bridge.
Lithuania Drone Tours are unique virtual tours of Lithuania, where spectacular drone footage of Lithuania’s prettiest sites and sights is accompanied by English comments explaining the background and stories of these famous Lithuanian travel destinations.
Lithuanian Drone Tours footage is by Augustinas Žemaitis, owner of the www.truelithuan... website about Lithuania.

[@tnickknight]

Thank you for showing our indigenous beliefs. Good Job ❤❤

[@TrueLithuania]

Thanks! I try to show the most important locations of every place of the "Lithuanian Drone Tour" and Šventoji has one of the few most interesting indigenous belief sites in Lithuania.

[@tnickknight]

I think family company vacations and summer camps were one of the few things that were not that bad under the occupation system.

[@TrueLithuania]

From the perspective of a person of the era, of course, they were something to look forward to, a nice respite from the work routine. However, compared to what was available to the peers in the West, they were quite abysmal both in terms of quality (e.g. cramped little houses without WCs for whole families with no better options available) and, more importantly, in terms of choice: while a person in the West could have simply used his salary to go to holidays in a way he prefers (e.g. a different resort every year, together with different friends, etc.), people in the Soviet Union and occupied countries were largely limited to a certain "yearly holiday routine", as spending each years' summer vacation week in the same state-company-owned resort with the families of their co-workers was the only truly accessible holiday option to many. That said, one typically does not even think about the options he/she never had - so, without ever experiencing that lifestyle, most people in Lithuania did not even dream of annual foreign or tropical vacations. Even the idea of that felt sci-fi or fantasy like.

[@eh8006]

many things were ok actually, not everything was bad at all