At the Maiden’s Eyes nature trail, visitors enter a landscape where the sandy plain of southeastern Lithuania lies alongside the Dzūkija Highlands. The trail is 2.4 km long, but there is an option to shorten the route to 1.2 km.

The complex history of this region is reflected by the German soldiers’ graves on a slope near a smaller lake, where about 130 soldiers who died in the Merkinė area during World War I are buried. Unknown Russian soldiers are also buried nearby.

This educational trail offers a chance to experience the diversity of a small but unique area, and to get acquainted with characteristic, and sometimes rare, species of plants and animals. Over 40 bird species can be observed here. Among the lakes nest mallards, great crested grebes, reed warblers, and great bitterns. In the shore cavities nest tawny owls, scops owls, and four species of woodpeckers — including the three-toed woodpecker and the grey-headed woodpecker. The black woodpecker flies through looking for prey. In the mossy and fern-rich spruce forests, which remain cool even in summer, there is a true kingdom of mosses and ferns. Nearby, in bright pine forests, slender cotton grass blooms in spring, later replaced by reddening wild strawberries. The trail also passes through black alder groves and a rare lime tree stand for these regions.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’s birth, in 1975–1976 near Maiden’s Eyes was erected a group of sculptures called the Čiurlionis Path: “Four Kings,” “The Belfry,” “The Thinker,” and a bench (authors: V. K. Savickis, A. Jarutis, A. Viluckis, K. Neimanis).