St. John’s Festival in Kernave, Lithuania

Better with sound 🔊 Saint John’s Day, also known as Joninės, is a midsummer folk festival celebrated on 24 June all around Lithuania. 

While midsummer day is celebrated throughout Europe, many Lithuanians have a particularly lively agenda on this day. The traditions include singing songs and dancing until the sun sets, telling tales, searching to find the magic fern blossom at midnight, jumping over bonfires, greeting the rising midsummer sun and washing the face with a morning dew, young girls float flower wreaths on the water of rivers or lakes.

The video I captured was from Kernavė, Lithuania. If you’re in Lithuania on June 24, I highly recommend visiting Kernave.