Who could deny that digging a piece of turf for a girl in a garden on St. John’s night and flipping it over to analyze the appearance of a protruding beetle, which tells you about your future husband, is not only fun but also emotionally rewarding. The world of technology and eternal rush is highly engaging, so much so that a man unconsciously begins to move away from nature, often forgetting that the true harmony and balance live right there. So, if a gray beetle comes out, the man will be poor, simple if colorful, the husband will be a man of authority or a soldier if green, a farmer. Everything is so easy and simple, right? Everything is like that in nature.

On the 23rd of June, when the longest day and the shortest night is upon Lithuania, the natives celebrated the summer solstice festival. Later, when Christianity had been adopted in Lithuania, the celebration was identified with St. John’s name. Every year, Trakai region frantically celebrates this midsummer holiday and invites one to visit Lentvaris, Aukštadvaris or Paluknis. Summer solstice ceremony can become a unique experience since only here, on St. John's night, we can feel the transformation not only in nature but also in ourselves, when entering through festive, grass-covered gates, searching for a fern blossom, bathing in water from clay jugs, singing multipart songs, tying St John's worts and shrouds together, weaving virgin crowns, watching a hundred-year-old home-made beer making ritual, creating Baltic jewelry.