Graži vieta, LT
Gardai Esker is the largest esker in Žemaitija (Samogitia). This is a geomorphologically unique landform and a picturesque example in Lithuania. An esker is a long narrow hill composed mostly of sand and gravel. This ridge was formed from sediments that deposited inside glaciers, on the beds of melted ice water streams about 12 - 13 thousand years ago. This peculiar semicircle-shaped embankment-ridge stretches from the Varduva river in Žemaičių Kalvarija town for 3.5 km northwest. In some places, the height of the Gardai Esker reaches 10-15 metres from the feet to the highest crests of the ridge. In this place a gravel quarry used to be in Soviet times, and later it was exploited as an illegal dumpsite.