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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