Our first stop after the long drive from Riga was Lithuania’s first national park – Aukstaitija. It covers an area of 40570 hectares in north-eastern Lithuania. Over 70 percent of its territory is pine stands, including the ancient woods of Azvinciai, Mincia, and Linkmenos...
The park stands out with its diverse world of wetlands. It is home to moss or raised bogs, fens, and transitional bogs. The Great Ķemeri Bog is one of the main sulfur water producing bogs around Ķemeri. The bogland soil is poor in nutrients, acid, and in many places sodden. Most trees...
We took a ferry from Kapellskär to Paldiski and then we drove straight to Võsu in Lahemaa National Park. It is located in northern Estonia, 70 kilometers east of the capital of Tallinn. It was the first national park of the former Soviet Union and it is the largest park in Estonia and one...
We crossed the biggest high mountain plateau in Northern Europe with vast plateaus, deep, lush valleys and high mountains, glaciers in the far distance, waterfalls, and azure fjords. Hardangervidda offers a variety of experiences starting from where the road snakes lazily across the wide...
After Gaustatoppen we drove to Hardangervidda National Park. It is the largest national park in Norway. This vast mountain plateau offers excellent hiking opportunities; unfortunately, we did not have so much time, so we took just a 5 km hike from Gvepseborg. We used the Krossobanen Cable...
We have visited Skaftafell – a hiker’s paradise with stunning glaciers and some of the highest peaks of Iceland. The national park is located at the South East Coast of Iceland at the roots of Vatnajökull, the biggest glacier in Europe. The geographical and natural diversity makes...
On the way to Þingvellir National Park, we made a short stop at the abandoned Akranes lighthouse. In wintertime, this location is a popular place to shoot the Northern lights. Later we have explored Iceland’s oldest National Park and the only one listed in UNESCO. Park is covering an area...
Last night we slept under Kirkjufell – the most photographed mountain in Iceland! Kirkjufell (463 m) is a beautifully shaped and symmetric, free-standing Mountain. It got its name, which means ‘Church Mountain’, probably because of its shape reminding a church tower. The...
Jökulsárgljúfur is the northernmost part of Vatnajökull National Park, with separate boundaries, but geographically connected to the rest of the park by the glacial river Jökulsá á Fjöllum. The river’s source is in Vatnajökull glacier, near the subglacial volcano Bárdarbunga...
After a good sleep, we made a short hike around Hizha Banderitsa with an excellent alpine landscape and Baikushev’s pine – 1380-year-old tree. This national park is also home to bears and wolves and well known for the high-altitude Vihren Peak, with forested ridges and...