Estonian nature is very varied. On small piece of land you can enjoy picturesque seacoast, reserved forest massive, moorlands, lakes, rapid rivers and waterfalls on them.
Estonia has more then 30 waterfalls. During the tour I show you 2 ones: the widest and the most beautiful among them.
We drive west and explore scenery around Tallinn. Firstly we ride along western part of Tallinn region and have a stop at the highest Estonian cliff of 50m and look to Baltic sea as far as we can. Nearby is situated manor of respected baltic nobleman of 1800s Alexandr Benckendorff. Nowadays it is open air museum, where you may spend more than hour.
His estate was famous for its wonderful thick pine forest, rapid creeks and bridges on them, colorful flower-gardens, and sweet benches. According to tradition every guest, coming to visit Benckendorff, presented bench and planted tree. Among them was Russian emperor Nicholai 1st. Benckendorff manor house is restored and welcomes you as luxury restoran/guesthouse.
Main sight of the manor is a waterfall in river Keila. Waterfall is so rapid, that it is not frozen even in hard freeze. No doubt, it is the the most romantic place, attracted newlyweds from all Estonia. They take picture at suspension bridge and hang nominal lock at it.
After coffee-break in open air cafe we drive to another waterfall on river Jagala. Not to get bored, we gp through Keila town and see Estonian suburbs inside. Keila is one of the youngest towns but it has the oldest and highest suburb churches in Estonia of st. Micheal. It is very nice one and deserves to to be seen attentively.
In 30 minutes we reach waterfall on river Jagala. It is the widest waterfall in Estonia, considered Nr1 for fishermen and rafters. If you like Soviet legacy objects, we cannot pass by power station dam on river Jagala, totally destroyed in 2nd World War and renovated not long ago.
But it is not all stories, I wish to to tell you there.
Then we go back to Tallinn.
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