Sea Paradise
SEA PARADISE is a paddleboarding school in Palanga, belonging to the international water sports school association VDWS. Our school, together with the name of the city of Palanga, is already visible on the international map among 540 water sports schools in thirty countries around the world. It is the first certified paddleboarding school in Lithuania belonging to the VDWS association. So, we invite everyone who loves nature, the sea, and waves to try and experience something you may not have dared to do before!
In 2017, a themed surf hostel opened in Palanga, offering accommodation for people who love freedom, new experiences, waves, and wind. This is the first surf hostel in the region that lives and breathes the true spirit of surfing. People who stay here understand that surfing is not just catching waves, it’s a way of life! ALOHA!
Services:
- GIFT VOUCHERS
- SURFING
- SKIMBOARD LESSONS
- SURFING LESSONS
- KAYAKING LESSONS
- INDIVIDUAL KAYAKING COURSES FOR FAMILIES
- KAYAKING LESSONS ON THE WAVES
- 2-DAY SUMMER KAYAKING CAMP FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN PALANGA
- SUP TOURS
- EXTREME SPORTS DAY CAMP IN PALANGA
- BACHELOR PARTIES ON SUP
- BACHELORETTE PARTIES ON SUP
- BIRTHDAY PARTIES ON SUP
- COMPANY EVENTS
- KITE SURFING AND MOUNTAIN BOARDING
- KAYAK RENTAL
Registration by phone: +370 657 64 13 or balticseaparadise@gmail.com
Sea Paradise campsite
Tourists looking for pop entertainment and parties until dawn usually choose the resort town of Palanga. Lithuania’s main resort is expanding rapidly, so there are alternative places for nature lovers who want to escape the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy a different kind of tourism and eco-friendly entertainment. We want travelers to see a completely different side of the city. It is no longer fashionable to mark famous “must-see” attractions with ticks or check marks; tourists want to get to know the area through experiences and the way people live. Slow tourism offers just that. Slow tourism is first and foremost a state of mind, a philosophy of life. Slow travelers have a specific way of life when traveling. This distinguishes them from regular tourists.
Speed destroys the connection between people and nature, while slower travel allows that connection to be maintained.
The Sea Paradise campsite is located in Būtingė, at Būtingės g. 18A, Palanga. It is located in the old Curonian settlement, in a very convenient location – just 15 km from the center of Palanga, 9 km from Palanga International Airport, 3 km from the Latvian border, and only 2.5 km from the Baltic Sea.The Šventoji River flows 1.5 km from the campsite and continues to flow through the same valleys, still as capricious and mysterious as in ancient times and still sacred to some. The location of the campsite is particularly convenient for travelers, as it is only 55 km from Klaipėda Central Terminal (international ferry terminal) and 59 km from Liepāja Port (Latvian international ferry terminal).
For lovers of campers, mobile homes, and tents, we offer relaxation surrounded by nature, leisure activities with water sports, culture, and history. Trips through unspoiled nature. Hikes, tours, and other eco-sports can be chosen at the on-site SEA PARADISE SURF SPORTO CENTRE, which is accredited by the VDWS International Association of Water Sports Instructors and Schools. Here you can purchase gift vouchers and book our active, qualified, and eco-friendly activities, which are available all year round: mountain boarding, longboarding lessons, and children’s day camps. In summer, you can try surfing, paddleboarding, kitesurfing, wing surfing with a mountain board, wing surfing on water, skisurfing, bodyboarding, and many other eco-friendly adventures in the fresh air.
If you want to experience the Way of St. James, you have a great opportunity to do so in Lithuania, and you don’t have to travel to the other side of the world – sometimes good things are right around the corner. So it’s time to set off on one of the four international Camino Lituano pilgrimage, cultural, and tourist routes of St. James. The Samogitia/Kaliningrad St. James’ Way route begins in the north of our country, on the border between Lithuania and Latvia.
For history-loving travelers, we recommend learning about the history of this settlement.
BŪTINGĖ – The northernmost seaside village in western Lithuania. Of the 99 kilometers of Lithuania’s Baltic coastline, most of it is located on the Curonian Spit, which is firmly and clearly separated from the rest of Lithuania. Mainland Lithuania reaches the sea in a narrow strip, only forty kilometers long, between Būtingė and Melnragė. It is an interesting region, now purely Lithuanian, but from the Middle Ages to the 5th-6th centuries, the Curonians lived on the coast of Lithuania and Latvia. In the middle of the 9th century, the Curonians and their lands were described in the chronicles of Rimbert, and the Swedish, Norwegian, and even Icelandic sagas began to sing of the daring Viking expeditions across the sea to the eastern countries, not bypassing the Curonian Spit on the way. The Curonian warriors also quickly mastered the art of seafaring and, having formed groups, invaded the Baltic Sea, perhaps even reaching the North Sea. The Curonian Vikings did the same as the Scandinavians – they went on long voyages, traded and plundered the coastal areas.
From the beginning of the 13th century, they belonged to the Livonian Order. The name Būtingė was given to the settlement after its founders, the Bodendieck family of Courland. The Budendieckhof Manor in Būtingė was founded in 1507. It is located on the right bank of the Šventoji River, near the road opposite the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which has an interesting history. Nearby was a village with twelve farms belonging to the Budendiek manor. History buffs from the German town of Bodenteich think the area got its name from a knight of the Von Bodendieck family who ended up in Livonia. In 1507, the first written records of the village of Būtingė near Šventoji appeared.
In 1507, the Master of the Livonian Order, Walter von Plentenberg, confirmed the Bodendieck family’s right to a plot of land near Elija. The exact location of this property is unknown, but in 1638, Christoph, a descendant of the Bodendieck family, built the Budendieckhof manor. After the 1655–1656 war with Sweden and the 1658–1659 plague epidemic, the Būtingė manor became state property and was alternately owned by the administrators of the Rucava manor and private tenants. In the 19th century, Būtingė began to dominate the surrounding area as a new center of attraction. In 1824, an Evangelical Lutheran church, one of the oldest in Lithuania, was completed and consecrated opposite the manor buildings, behind the public road. In the second half of the 19th century, a border guard headquarters, known as the cordon, was built to the north of the church, where the Būtingė elementary school was later allowed to open. A parish tavern was built on the banks of the Šventoji River, with a windmill a little further away.
Today, the Būtingė manor houses the Birutės uostas restaurant. The Šventoji-Palanga-Būtingė coastal strip only became part of Lithuania in 1921, during the exchange of territories with Latvia, until 1940. In 1993, the agreement on the restoration of the Lithuanian-Latvian border was re-established. This is a completely Curonian and German region.
