Spa & Health Tourism in Lithuania

Take a minute for yourself! Health tourism in Lithuania combines the highest quality service and wonderful nature that allows us to offer a wide range of aesthetic, beauty, and wellness services. Mineral waters, healing mud, Lithuanian herbs and amber are just a few local natural remedies whose healing properties are successfully used by Lithuanian health service providers. In Lithuania, you can quickly regain strength in spas in the big cities or treat yourself to the pleasures of health and beauty oases away from the city’s bustle. Even the environment helps to relax: endless green areas, countless lakes and rivers, a pleasant climate!

Resorts and resort areas
Lithuania’s resorts are little corners of paradise surrounded by pine forests and water. The fresh air and natural environment will relax the body and soul, while the cultural events and wealth of entertainment will definitely keep you from being bored.

Druskininkai
Druskininkai is an excellent place for those who want to get their personal health back, as the city is surrounded by allegedly healing springs and absolutely stunning nature. Today Druskininkai is an official healthcare resort and the fastest-growing recreation destination. Breathing the pure air, drinking mineral water straight from the natural springs, having baths in natural therapeutic peat and doing so much more for your health and mind is what makes this destination unique.

Birštonas
Surrounded by pine forests and the Nemunas River, this scenic resort welcomes its visitors with tranquil, relaxing and most of all body and soul-healing atmosphere. Birštonas has a lot to offer from modern therapy centres and exceptional cultural life to the serenity of old-fashioned houses and long-lasting traditions of healing using natural therapeutic remedies.

Neringa
The Curonian Spit is a unique place of massive travelling sand dunes. Today the landscape is dominated by pine forests as a result of an attempt to tame the nature, nevertheless, some of the breathtaking dunes remain. Guests admire the good ecological state of the resort, its clean and clear seawater, the white sands of its seashore, and its fresh air. It is easy to indulge in healthier and active lifestyle while being here.

Palanga
Palanga is a resort famous for white sand beaches and its pleasant dunes. It is a universal resort in Lithuania where anyone can find a suitable way to rest and have fun. Palanga is like a split-personality resort: a peaceful wonderland in winter and a pulsating party spot in summer. Tourists from all over Lithuania and abroad come for its seaside landscape, entertainment and treatment procedures.

Zarasai
Zarasai could be called a paradise, the city rising above water and forests. This resort area offers picturesque landscapes, safe and peaceful pine forests, and more than three hundred lakes in the whole region of Zarasai.

It is a perfect place with favorable microclimate to strengthen your health by enjoying aqua tourism activities, exploring wild nature or just breathing the fresh air.

Anykščiai
Anykščiai resort area allures visitors with its blue lakes and forests, cultural events and historical heritage. It is a perfect place for pure relaxation and harmony. The calming effect of forest and fresh air revitalizes tired mind and body. At the local wellness and medical centres, visitors can find mineral water swimming pools, saunas, salt rooms; everyone is able to enjoy therapeutic and relaxing massages and other pleasant health, treatment, and wellness procedures.

Trakai
Trakai resort area encompasses the natural resources for medical and wellness travelers such as a fine climate, pure air, green forests and lakes. All year round it is bustling with activity where visitors and locals enjoy fitness, health procedures, concerts, cultural attractions, at the same time witnessing man-made landscapes coexisting with remarkable water bodies.

Ignalina
Ignalina and two surrounding villages of Strigailiškis and Palūšė were recognized for their recreational resources. It is a land of lakes and forests that radiates a mood of relaxation and peace. Scenes of amazing beauty attract those who seek picturesque natural views, fishing, water activities, boat trips, bike rides, winter sports or a quiet holiday in a rural tourist location.

Kulautuva, Kačerginė and Zapyškis
Kačerginė, Kulautuva and Zapyškis – three towns situated near the Nemunas – are an oasis of tranquillity and a nature haven of exceptional beauty and purity for those who want a break from the bustle of the city. Surrounded by forests, this is an area where you are sure to forget about your everyday worries as you stroll along the educational and wellness trails and take in the fresh air. In Kulautuva there is a natural mineral water source, and Kačerginė invites you to taste water straight from the spring, which is said to even have magical powers. You can become acquainted with the picturesque surroundings by bike or by water.

Natural remedies
Nature has given us natural riches that we have long relied upon to deal with a variety of health challenges or simply to regain our strength. There are many health resorts, spa and therapy centers in Lithuania that offer the best for your health and well-being. The effect of mineral water, herb or mud treatments inspired by deep traditions and applied with a professional approach is undoubted. All you have to do is choose the most appropriate natural remedy for you.

Baltic Sea and Sun
The Lithuanian seaside is known for its breath-taking, green, refreshing scenery and unique landscape of the sand dunes; the latter was, and still is, a subject of fascination for many prominent local and international painters, photographers, writers and other artists.

The culture of the seaside charms visitors with the age-old traditions of fishing villages and a diverse selection of interesting events. Of all of these, the Neringa region – a coastal strip of 52 km in length – is most commonly referred to as an open SPA centre. Health and medical tourists choose this region for the high quality of services, pleasant atmosphere and, of course, remarkable nature.

Amber therapy
There is a good reason why amber is called Lithuanian gold. More than 250 amber varieties are known worldwide, while Baltic amber differs from others because of its composition: it contains considerable amounts of succinic acid. Succinic acid is the main valuable component of amber that allows using amber for health purposes. Baltic amber is the only variety without heavy metal impurities; therefore, it is perfect for use in medicine and cosmetics. In the Baltic Sea region, 80% of all world amber is found. Amber baths, massages, cosmetics, jewellery, gastronomy, historical or architectural sites, health promotion services, museums and galleries, shops, designers, experts, amber workshops, amber-related legends, amber in folklore and art…

World First Amber Sauna
And this year world first amber sauna was opened near Palanga, in Kretinga district. Three tons of natural Baltic amber used to make it. Ceilings, walls and even sauna beds are covered with natural amber. Featuring a cosy and luxurious amber room, sauna, covers area of 22 square meters and comfortably fits up to 15 people at the time.

Mineral water and health springs
With over 20 deep wells of mineral water in Lithuanian resorts, visitors are able to enjoy health benefits that this natural marvel provides throughout the year. For instance, drinkable mineral water has a wide range of biologically active micro elements, allowing it to fight inflammations and regulate the metabolism or levels of acid production in the body. As our skin has millions of blood vessels and nerve endings, the healing effects of mineral water baths can be felt relatively quickly, so jumping into one right after a brief consultation is advised when experiencing joint pain, difficulty in bending your knees, flexing ankles or any other related issues.

Mud and its benefits
Tracing its roots from as early as Ancient Greece, mud therapy has secured a reputation as an interesting and effective treatment method in Lithuania, mostly in the form of peat mud procedures.

Visitors are absolutely free to choose baths of white mud or the aforementioned black peat mud – both of these options offer impressive advantages and benefits to the immune system, helping to tackle various illnesses or inflammations and assisting in regeneration and recovery processes. One of the most productive ways to experience this is to enjoy a therapeutic mud bath with mineral water – this treatment opens up the pores and provides the body with many microelements and bioactive substances, while at the same time improving the metabolism.

Climate and the fresh air
Lithuanian resorts are blessed with almost perfect climate conditions. This is a result of agreeable wind speeds and Sun intensity, accompanied by suitable air temperatures, atmospheric pressure and just the right amount of precipitation, combining into an environment that’s great for health and medical tourism.

The air itself it packed full of oxygen, and most local resorts are real pine tree stacked paradises. This makes for much better sleeping patterns, normalisation of protein and fat in the metabolism and improved liver function, not to mention an uplifted spirit and sounder nervous system.

Local herbs and phytotherapy
It would be a sin to miss out on all the renowned health benefits that the local world of plants provides. Herbs have been the basis for medical treatments throughout much of human history, and such traditional procedures are still widely practiced today, though with a twist of modern medicine, of course. Closely related to herbalism as a whole, phytotherapy is the intended medical use of plants and plant extracts for therapeutic purposes. Lithuanians have been known to use a large number of locally-found herbs to treat all sorts of illnesses.

Major cities
Major cities in Lithuania offer a wide range of health services. From relaxing spa treatments to medical diagnostics or dentistry, you will be met in Lithuania’s cities by highly qualified professionals working with state-of-the-art equipment and prepared to provide individually tailored services.

Vilnius
This green cosmopolitan city with astonishing architecture and a focus on high-quality services is a fantastic place for cultural, active and health tourism.

Vilnius visitors enjoy unique and individual-orientated SPA centres’ services including dental services, massages, personalized beauty treatments, aromatherapy, rituals and other. Everything in Vilnius is within walking distance so it is easy to find closest SPA centre or SPA Hotel just minutes from most popular city attractions.

Kaunas
Kaunas is a prosperous city a midst of Lithuania with its authentic character. A growing number of people are finding Kaunas to be the hub of health, rehabilitation and medical tourism since the city delivers on all fronts of the relevant procedures – diagnostics, odontology, SPA treatments and so forth – while still keeping the costs relatively low. Kaunas greets visitors with the highly qualified doctors who have access to modern equipment and provide quality service to the highest degree.

Klaipėda
This city has a lot to offer to enhance its visitors’ health. Klaipėda’s unique location allows guests to enjoy different forms of rehabilitation, and medical treatments strengthened by the natural therapeutic remedies of the Baltic Sea. A lengthy walk by the sea already has a positive effect on your health, as inhaling mineral particles in the air is good for airways and bronchia.

The Kopgalis Fort complex, which houses the Maritime Museum, Aquarium and a Dolphinarium, is one of the main attractions in Klaipėda. The Dolphinarium is the only one of this kind in the entire eastern part of the Baltic coast. Visitors come from all over the world not only to enjoy dolphin shows but also to heal with dolphin therapy for children with disability.

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Beer SPA procedures
With more and more travellers seeking opportunities to improve their well-being and health, finding inner peace, and switching to a higher quality of lifestyle, wellness tourism is on the rise globally.

And Lithuania is no exception. In fact, it has long spa traditions and a thriving sector already in place that is primed and ready to revive, purify and energise you.. Local SPA procedures use local products and ancient Lithuanian traditions to ensure you receive a truly authentic experiences and a sense of well-being.

For example, have you ever heard of taking a milk bath? Besides the more traditional offers at various local SPA centres, you can also try a modern take on Cleopatra’s recipe for preserving what’s left of your youth: a bath with wild berries and goats’ milk which moistens the skin effectively and reduces fatigue.

At a rural tourism homestead in northern Lithuania, meanwhile, you can enjoy an open-air bath with milk, medicinal herbs, or… beer and hop blossoms! Yes! It’s said that this beer procedure warms and cherishes the skin, nurturing it with minerals, easing your blood pressure and elevating your spirits.

If you’ve already tried and are no longer surprised by therapeutic mud or mineral-water baths, which the Lithuanian resorts of Druskininkai and Birštonas are justifiably famous for, why not go for an amber bath? Special amber water, hydro massage and rubbing yourself with bags filled with pieces of amber strengthens your immune system, improves the digestion and stimulates the release of happiness hormones.

You’ll find that your little ones are taken care of at the resorts too. They can enjoy an apple bath, a strawberry bath or a camomile bath. It’s said that even the most capricious kids and monsters under the bed cannot resist.

Amber therapies
The therapeutic benefits of Baltic amber are no mere legend; they have been scientifically proven. That’s why amber is used not only for making jewellery in Lithuania but for a variety of SPA procedures too.

Even in the very centre of the capital Vilnius, you can order a massage on an amber mattress with amber oil, black amber, amber beads and amber incense. In other parts of Lithuania, you can experience a body scrub with amber dust, a body wrap with amber powder and honey, blue amber therapy for your hands and feet, and even amber aromatherapy.

Amber has quite rightly taken a dominant role in Lithuanian SPA processes. Baltic amber contains 3% to 8% of amber acid, which has clear health benefits as it stimulates metabolic processes, reduces inflammation, improves blood flow, reduces stress and fills you with energy.

What’s more, you can even give amber a taste. After a relaxing amber massage you will find yourself being offered to take part in an amber tea ceremony, or you might even have the opportunity to try the dessert called The Amber Jewel, that’s an inspired combination of amber and honey.

Or maybe it’s time to try the unique, patented Amber and Mineral Therapy Centre in Vilnius with its amber interior? Or the biggest amber sauna in the world near the seaside resort of Palanga, made with three tonnes of Baltic amber?

Birch rods from the freezer and milk cubes
Saunas deserve a separate mention in Lithuania, as every sauna enthusiast has their own philosophy. Some offer a sacred sauna experience with scrubbing, aromatherapy and tea, while others can rub you down with salt and amber powder, make you a clay mask, and massage you with honey and hemp oil in a sauna. But it doesn’t stop there, as there other keen sauna specialists will bring whey cubes with cucumbers, and in winter they’ll wrap you in a sweet milk blanket.

In winter, some sauna enthusiasts use fresh birch rods, which are kept in the freezer so that even when the snow falls you’ll be able to enjoy the fresh aromas of birch, oak, lime tree or chestnut.

And what greater pleasure is there than jumping into a lake after a sauna? And it’s not only in the majority of rural tourism homesteads that you can do this. If you’re with a larger group you can visit Ilzenbergas Manor with its reconstructed 19th century sauna, which is considered to be the biggest of its kind in the Baltic states accommodating up to 25 people.

In the resorts, in the SPA centres after a sauna, you can enjoy not only traditional swimming pools but also mineral-water swimming pools; and in Palanga you can even take a dip in a Lithuania-shaped swimming pool with heated water from the Baltic Sea!

Burdock, sand and honey for wellness
A lot of people draw their strength from nature, and with this idea front and centre, Lithuanians have adapted nature into their SPA procedures. They offer massages with oak branches, body scrubs with oak-bark scrubs, ground chestnuts, sand, hemp, ash berries, cranberry puree and poppy seeds. After wrapping you in burdock, dandelions or sea buckthorn, they prepare masks with parsley, plantago, nettle and apple, use buckwheat or salt therapy, and also offer special dolphin, horse even bee therapy.

In Lithuania, you can learn a few recipes that will help improve your quality of sleep. Trying one of them will take only a few minutes, as that’s as long as you’ll be able to stand in the 120 degrees Celsius heat! Cryotherapy helps you recover from traumas, strengthens your immune system, reduces anxiety – and makes you look younger too.

Fancy spending some time in a cloud?. even if it’s not exactly a real one. Colours, light, sound and motion are used in a special device to create a deep relaxation effect. Twenty minutes in this device is equal to two hours of deep sleep. You can find this innovation near the pretty village of Trakai.

From spring next year, you’ll be able to visit the first Sleep SPA in Eastern Europe located in the resort of Druskininkai. There, you’ll find a number of innovative therapies aimed at improving sleep, as well as the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of every guest.