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2022.05.01 Matuizos - Varėna Hike

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Distance
17.58 mi
Elevation gain
453 ft
Technical difficulty
Difficult
Elevation loss
440 ft
Max elevation
453 ft
TrailRank 
23
Min elevation
331 ft
Trail type
One Way
Coordinates
386
Uploaded
May 1, 2022
Recorded
May 2022
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near Matuizos, Alytaus apskritis (Lietuva)

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Itinerary description

- You can take train reaching to Matuizos at 9.21, with steady pace take train back from Varėna at 17.20 or later one.
- You will see more dead people than alive in this route visiting many cemeteries from different periods.
- I still kept my bookmarks for places away from the route, you can plan your hike covering them, too.

Waypoints

PictographWaypoint Altitude 418 ft

Matuizos

PictographWaypoint Altitude 397 ft

Break

PictographWaypoint Altitude 358 ft
Photo ofSmalninkai Bridge

Smalninkai Bridge

PictographWaypoint Altitude 392 ft
Photo ofLunch break (Glukas lake)

Lunch break (Glukas lake)

Last 1 km before this point is off road, you can find better paths instead.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 399 ft

Glukas railway bridge ruins

PictographWaypoint Altitude 415 ft

Artilerijskaya station

PictographWaypoint Altitude 452 ft

Russian graves (? dead)

You need to walk 2 km off road to reach this point after Artilerijskaya Station. There are only few tombstones there. You can skip it if you want.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 431 ft
Photo ofWW1 German cemetery (400 dead)

WW1 German cemetery (400 dead)

PictographWaypoint Altitude 423 ft

Tsarist Russia pyroxylin storage (Not on the route)

PictographWaypoint Altitude 371 ft
Photo ofSenoji Varėna Eiffel

Senoji Varėna Eiffel

PictographWaypoint Altitude 419 ft
Photo ofWW2 USSR cemetery (426 dead)

WW2 USSR cemetery (426 dead)

PictographWaypoint Altitude 418 ft

Jewish massacre memorial (Not on the route)

PictographWaypoint Altitude 378 ft
Photo ofJewish cemetery (200 dead)

Jewish cemetery (200 dead)

PictographWaypoint Altitude 368 ft

Break

PictographWaypoint Altitude 430 ft

Varėna

PictographWaypoint Altitude 417 ft

Beržupis Culvert (Not on the route)

PictographWaypoint Altitude 366 ft

Railway Bridge ruins across Merkys (Not on the route)

PictographWaypoint Altitude 408 ft

Derežnyčia Culvert remnants (Not on the route)

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    You can or this trail