My Travel Blog for past, present and future countries and cities visited.
Location: Baltic
Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps
Tallinn, Estonia
My first visit to the Baltic region was in Tallinn, Estonia this was apart of Expat Explore's Northern Explorer tour. Tallinn is easily accessible by cruise as it is very close to other European cities such as Saint Petersburg, Helsinki or Stockholm. It has a population of around 450,000 people and its old town is a UNESCO world heritage site. We arrived and took a walk around with a friendly local guide.
Rooftop view of Tallinn.
Riga, Latvia
We then drove onto Riga in Latvia which is the biggest city in all of the Baltic countries. We again walked through the city with our guide to explore the area further. Latvia along with its neighbour countries joined the European Union in 2004. We enjoyed a meal here before walking through a park on the way back to our hotel with a sky bar.
Centre of Riga.
Vilnius, Lithuania
After spending the night we moved onto Lithuania, first visiting the Hill of crosses. It is estimated that there are over 100,000 crosses and crucifixes here. Departing here we moved onto a city tour of the capital Vilnius. I walked up the hill to the castle to get a great shot back down of the city below.
We enjoyed an ice cream before been taken back to the hotel.
Hill of Crosses.
View of Vilnius.
Videos from my time in the Baltic region can be found here:
Looking to book a hotel anywhere in the world? Use the link below and you will receive 10% back after your stay. https://www.booking.com/s/35_6/7d62e267 Sign up and stay with Airbnb using the link below for £25 in travel credit on a future booking. https://www.airbnb.co.uk/c/chrisd12290 North America (August 2019) Horseshoe Falls in Niagara, Canada. Ep 01 - Arriving in NJ (2m05s) Ep 02 - Newport, RI (2m03s) Ep 03 - Boston, MA (3m41s) Ep 04 - Flume Gorge, NH (3m15s) Ep 05 - Quebec City (5m26s) Ep 06 - Montreal/Ottawa (5m04s) Ep 07 - Toronto (3m42s) Ep 08 - Niagara Falls (6m22s) Ep 09 - Detroit, MI (2m54s) Ep 10 - Cleveland/Pittsburgh (2m14s) Ep 11 - Washington DC (6m08s) Ep 12 - Philadelphia, PA (2m25s) Ep 13 - New York City (6m38s) Balkans (April 2019) Old Town of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Ep 01 - Pre-Tour in Greece (3m02s) Ep 02 - Delphi & Meteora (2m24s) Ep 03 - Ohrid (2m47s) Ep 04 - Tirana (2m07s) Ep 05 - Montenegro (3m35s) Ep 06 - Dubrovnik (3m...
Shanghai Museum We started the day by visiting the Shanghai museum. The queue was only 15 minutes long to enter and I had a power hour walk around. I don't normally enjoy museums too much but the 4th floor had some interesting stuff such as furniture and clothing. There are over 120,00 items on show inside this museum which opened in 1996. Furniture on the 4th floor. Nanjing Road After the museum we drove to near Nanjing Road where we were dropped off. Nanjing Road is the main shopping street in Shanghai. It is 5.5km long and runs from East to West. It attracts up to 1 million visitors per day and is one of the busiest shopping areas in the world. The Bund Towards the east end of nanjing Road is 'The Bund'. This is where you can see Shanghai's skyline view across the Huangpu river in the Pudong area. There was some low cloud but the mist added an extra effect to the photos. Yuyang Garden Our final stop of the day was Yuyang Garden wh...
We started the day by meeting in the hotel lobby at 05:30am to collect our breakfast boxes. We would be spending another full day in the Kruger National Park, only this time in an open vehicle instead of the coach. As soon as the winter sun had risen we had some early sightings of elephants and some rhinos with birds on their backs. Another morning highlight would be seeing a warthog waking up from its hole and wandering off into the bush. One new animal we didn't sew yesterday was a honey badger. A warthog just waking up out of a hole. We took a morning break at Tshokwane, which is the same place that we used as a rest stop yesterday. No hyena to be seen today but the monkeys were back trying to steal an apple from somebody who wasn't looking. In the late morning we would have many giraffe sightings as well as the usual impala's. Just when things were looking quiet we saw 3 elephants running to the watering hole. We took a break once again for lunch at Skukuza know...
Comments
Post a Comment