Travel Blog Photos from Latvia (3,047)
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Ventspils, Latvia |
Liepaja, Latvia |
Sigulda, Latvia |
Riga, Latvia |
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Ventspils, Latvia |
Liepaja, Latvia |
Sigulda, Latvia |
Riga, Latvia |
... like Germans, Swedes,Poles and last but not least Russians. for the better part of the 19th to 20th century , Latvia went through the similar tragic story like its neighbors. They eventually declared independence in 1991 after the dessolve of Soviet Union ...
We finished our five days jaunt around the Baltic States with two weekend nights in the Latvian capital of Riga. Out of the three capitals we visited on this trip, Riga is the only one that really has some size to it and hence also some of the hustle and ...
Today I am taking my excursion out of Riga, a change of pace from city life to country life. A quick hour on the train, I am already in the city of Sigulda. This were the ancient Livonian knight's strong hold was back in the 12th to 15th ...
Yesterday was really blurry after a sleepless night at the Oslo airport. I'm amazed to be here at all as my flight was for the other Oslo airport, almost 200k from Oslo, Sandefjord. But luckily Norwegians are famously hospitable and the airline ticket ...