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Latvia and Estonia
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Day 1, Riga
- Arrival to “Riga” internation airport
- Transfer to the hotel and check-in
- Riga city tour: (the Bastion Hill, the Powder Tower, Dome square and church, Freedom Monument, Jacob Barracks, the Old City Walls, Swedish Gate, Parliament, Riga Castle etc.)
- Optional: lunch in the restaurant “Kalku varti” in the Old Town
- Afternoon Jurmala city tour (charming wooden summer cottages, decorated with fascinating carvings dating back to the 1900-s, recently built cottages and spa health centres, flat seacoast, cafes and souvenir shops etc.)
- Dinner in famous recreation center “Lido” in Riga
- Transfer back to the hotel
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Day 2, Riga, Sigulda
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Check-out and tour to Open Air Ethnographic museum (historical farmsteads, windmills, fishing villages, churches, craftsmen performance)
- Afternoon transfer to Sigulda
- Check-in at the hotel
- Optional: lunch at the hotel
- Afternoon Sigulda city tour ( bobsleigh track, the Turaida castle, ruins of Sigulda castle, Crusader Castle, Gutmana Cave and Kropotkin`s Palace etc.)
- Free time for leisure
- Dinner at the hotel
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Day 3, Sigulda, Cesis, Tartu
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Transfer to Cesis
- Cesis city tour (narrow streets, the 13th century Order of Knight's Castle and the soaring Gothic tower of the 13th century Church of St.John, the local History Museum displayed in the New Palace, the Palace park)
- Optional: lunch in city restaurant
- Transfer to beautiful XVth century Diklu castle, guided tour
- Transfer to Tartu
- Check-in at the hotel
- Free evening for leisure
- Dinner at the hotel
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Day 4, Tartu, Tallinn
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Morning Tartu city tour (neo-classical Town hall, the building of Tartu University , gothic St. John’s Church, the 15th century Dome Church, the observatory on Toome Hill)
- Optional: lunch in city restaurant
- Transfer to Tallinn
- Check-in at the hotel
- Evening for your own activities
- Dinner at the hotel
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Day 5, Tallinn
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Tallinn city tour (view of the medieval city wall, front of Toompea Palace and seat of the Estonian Parliament, the Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the Dome Church (13th – 18th century), the Town Hall Square and the outside of the Town Hall (14th century), the Pharmacy, St. Nicholas Church, the Holy Ghost Church and some Guild Houses from the Hanseatic period)
- Optional: lunch in city restaurant
- Afternoon tour to Rocca al Mare open air museum (authentic specimens of 18th – 19th century rural architecture like farmhouse, country pubs, chapels, windmills, a schoolhouses etc. together with corresponding furniture and household appliances)
- Evening for your own activities
- Dinner at the hotel
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Day 6, Tallinn, Riga
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Check-out and transfer to the airport
- Departure
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LATVIA
| Area: | 64,000 sq km |
| Population: | 2,306,300 |
| Capital City: | Riga |
| Currency: | Latvian lats LVL |
| TimeZone: | GMT / UTC +2 |
| Language: | Latvian, Russian |
| Religion: | Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox |
| Government: | Parliamentary democracy |
| Member of EU: | YES |
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