Apžvalgos vieta, Klaipėdos apskritis
Rising 52 meters above the Curonian Spit roughly 1.5 kilometers south of Nida, this shifting sand dune ranks among the tallest of its kind in Europe and sits inside the Curonian Spit UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its summit is marked by a granite sundial stele nearly 14 meters tall, erected in 1995, toppled by a storm in 1999, and rebuilt, its surface carved with symbols copied from a 17th-century wooden rune calendar. The dune's slow migration over past centuries buried several coastal settlements, including much of Old Nida, a landscape that led writer Thomas Mann, who built a summer house nearby in 1930, to call it 'the Sahara of the North.'