Top things to buy and take home

Lithuania’s primary seaport offers visitors a wide range of things to take home as gifts and souvenirs. Here’s three of the best and most interesting places to buy them.

As the name suggests, Amber Queen specialises in the extraordinary fossilised resin that washes up along the local shoreline every time there’s a storm. These people are the experts and won’t sell you the fake stuff.

If you’re putting a bag in the hold on the flight back, be sure to put some Lithuanian honey in it, preferably purchased from Bičių Korys.

For the best selection of traditional Lithuanian gifts and souvenirs, Marginiai is probably the best place in the city to find them.