Estonian Photo Gallery - Weeks 13~15

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1 - Crossing the open Schengen-
border into Estonia
2 - Board-walk past Nigula Bog-Lake
 leading in Nigula Nature Reserve
3 - Cranberry - ripening fruits
    (Vaccinium oxycoccus)
4 - Insectivorous round-leafed
    Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)

5 - Young storks on nest
   being fed by parent bird
6 - Cloudberry - ripening fruit
     (
Rubus chamaemorus)
7 - Great Sundew (Drosera longifolia)
  growing at Riisa Bog Walk
8 - Camp-fire at Soomaa
 National Park Visitor Centre

 
9 - Beaver dams on Tõramaa jõgi on
Soomaa National Park Beaver Trail
10 - Suspension foot-bridge over
  Castle dry moat at Viljandi
11 - Ruins of Viljandi Castle, built
by Livonian Order in 1224
12 - Traditional Estonian communal
 wooden swing by Viljandi Castle

 
13 - Shore-side camp at Vanasauna
Puhkemaja overlooking Lake Vörtsjärv
14 - Neo-Classical Town Hall
 in Raekoja plats at Tartu
15 - Tartu's delightful Raekoja plats
    (Town Hall Square)
16 - Tartu University Observatory
where Struve worked on Geodetic Arc

 
17 - Tartu city centre and Town Hall
 tower viewed from Toomemägi Hill
18 - Colonnaded frontage of Tartu
 University's 1802 Main Building
19 - Swedish King Gustav II Adolphus,
 1632 founder of Tartu University
20 - Tartu Song Festival Arena
 built in 1994

 
21 - MiG-25 supersonic interceptor
  at Estonian Aviation Museum
22 - Soviet Sukhoi Su-24
   all-weather attack aircraft
23 - Replica of silk blue-black-white
tricolour flag at Estonian Flag Museum
24 - 1949 Soviet-built railway station
 at Valga with wagon-filled sidings

 
25 - Soviet Su Class 2-6-2 steam
locomotive preserved at Valga station
26 - Estonian~Latvian border-posts
either side of stream marking border
27 - Redundant border-post in town
 centres of Valka~Valga
28 - Breakfast at Aare Majutus
  (Guest House) Camping

 
29 - Lake Ähijärv in Karula
  National Park
30 - Camp in shade of an oak tree
 at Karula National Park Visitor
31 - Peräjärve Forest Trail
 in Karula National Park
32 - Common Broomrape
 (Orobanche minor)

 
33 - Memorial at Võru to F R Kreutzwald author epic, Kalevipoeg 34 - View over forested terrain from
tower on 318m high Suur Munamägi
35 - Traditional Seto leelo women's
 polyphonic choral singing at Obinitsa
36 - Seto village chapel, Tsässon,
   at Obinitsa

 
37 - Vastseliina Episcopal Castle ruins
 built by Teutonic Knights in 1342
38 - Remains of defensive towers
   at Vastseliina Castle
39 - Obinitsa's Seto graveyard with
 festival benches around graves
40 - Cathedral-like galleries of
     Piusa Sand-Caves

 
41 - Ripening Lingonberries
(Vaccinium vitis-idaea) at Piusa
42 - A sunny evening among pines
  at Hirvemäe Camping near Värska
43 - No stopping along 900m Saatse
 Boot
through Russian territory
44 - Seto Orthodox Church
    of St Paraskeva at Saatse

 
45 - Pedestrians only border-crossing
 from Russian into Estonia at Saatse
46 - Inlet of Lake Pihkva at Podmotsa opposite Russian village of Kulje 47 - Visa-controlled border-crossing
    into Russia at Koidula
48 - Lunch at Kolkja Old Believers'
 Fish and Onion Restaurant

 
49 - Crowded storks' nest with
four fully grown young young birds
50 - Prayer corner with icons
 at Kolkja Old Believers' Museum
51 - Kolkja churchyard with Orthodox
  three-barred crosses grave markers
52 - Buying Old Believers' onions from
 cottage-side stall at Kolkja village

 
53 - Old Believers' onion drying
  racks at Kasepää village
54 - Three-barred Orthodox crosses
   at Kasepää  churchyard
55 - Bell-tower of Raja Old Believers'
 church overlooking Lake Peipsi
56 - Russian Orthodox Church
 at Mustvee

 
57 - Dormition of Mary Cathedral-
Church at Pühtitsa Orthodox Convent
58 - Iconostasis at Pühtitsa
    Orthodox Convent Cathedral
59 - Narrow beach and Baltic surf
   of NE Estonian coast below Toila
60 - Toila Spa Camping on cliff-tops
      of NE Estonian Baltic coast
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