Lahemaa National Park (Land of Bays) – the largest and oldest national park in Estonia

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Bog pools mirror the pale northern sky like scattered coins on a blanket of moss. A wooden boardwalk trails through the silent Viru Bog, where dwarf pines and cloudberries cling to the thin layer of peat that floats above dark, tannin-stained water. In the deep forest, elk tracks press into mud beside trails that lead […]

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Estonia – Baltic pearl

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Estonia is the Baltic pearl, a small country on the northeastern edge of Europe that punches dramatically above its weight in digital innovation (it invented Skype, pioneered e-residency, and has the most start-ups per capita in Europe), medieval beauty (Tallinn’s UNESCO-listed Old Town is one of the best-preserved Hanseatic city centres on the continent), and […]

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Finland – Northern Lights

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Finland is the Nordic wonderland of extremes, the land of the midnight sun and the polar night, of sauna culture and Sibelius, of Europe’s densest forests and its most spectacular Northern Lights displays. Regularly ranked as the world’s happiest country, Finland offers travellers an extraordinary combination of pristine nature, cutting-edge design, and genuine wilderness adventure: […]

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