Excursions

Excursions take place on 6th of August – each excursion has a maximum capacity and require prior registration.
Below you can also find our suggestions for some sightseeing on your own.

More information: efol@metsaselts.ee.

Trip to the Taevaskoda sandstone outcrops

On the excursion to Taevaskoda, RMK invites you for a 3 km walk along the banks of the Ahja River on the Taevaskoda hiking trail, which is part of RMK’s nationwide network of visitor sites. 

We will introduce you to the area's magnificent nature and cultural history, highlighted by the ancient sandstone outcrops rising from the riverbed toward the sky.

Price: €50 per person.
The price includes bus transport and lunch.

Järvselja primeval forest

Järvselja is the Mecca of Estonian forest scientists. Discover the history of our forestry, Estonia’s only primeval forest, the tallest trees in the country, and fascinating forest research areas – all guided by Estonia’s leading forest scientists.

Price: €50 per person.
The price includes bus transportation and lunch.

Emajõe light hikes

Join an evening SUP board tour on the Emajõgi River, which flows through the center of Tartu.

Price: €30 per person.
The price includes SUP board rental and light snacks.

Here is a selection of tours you can go on without prior registration.

These are great places to visit - learn more about Tartu, its history and culture through decades and centuries! You can take part in these excursions at any free moment on the principle: "I had the idea that I would like to go on an excursion - let's go!"

A.Le Coq Beer Museum - Welcome to Beer World!

The story of beer culture, which spans thousands of years, is told in the Beer World, one of the newest and most contemporary experience centres in Tartu. The fully preserved historical malt tower, which is known as a symbol of the city and one of the rarest industrial buildings in Europe, is the heart of the museum. In addition to its unique architecture, you'll find exciting installations and interactive exhibits as well as fascinating stories and legends in the Beer World.

Upside Down House

Upside Down House is a dizzying adventure for everybody – grown-ups and children. We literally have turned the house upside down. Upstairs is downstairs and vice versa. All the things like sofas, kitchen cabinets and everything else, that you usually see on the floor, hang from the ceiling in the Upside Down House. Actually, they are still on the floor, but the floor is the ceiling and the ceiling is the floor and as a matter of fact, it is you, who is upside down.

The KGB Cells Museum

The most beautiful town in Estonia, as the old song goes, or the Athens of River Emajõgi, as the old saying goes, was not spared in the whirlwinds of war of the 20th century. Tartu was one of the hardest-hit towns during World War II. It was not completely razed to the ground like the border town Narva but its face was changed to the extent of unrecognizable. Of the rapidly alternating cycle of German and Soviet occupations, the latter endured the longest and plunged Estonia, and Tartu into a stupor of a half century. In order to keep things under control and terrorize the population opposing the foreign regime, prisons and detention centers sprang up everywhere. The most notorious in Tartu was the so-called „grey house“, a pre-trial prison for political prisoners, now the KGB Cells Museum. The museum tells the story of the Soviet repression and survival of the native resistance through many decades until Estonia’s independence was restored.

The Estonian National Museum

Founded in Tartu in 1909 on the initiative and with the support of the nation – with the task to protect and develop the history and culture of Estonia. The Estonian National Museum is an ethnologically and cultural- historically oriented museum which aims at reflecting everyday life and culture as a way of life, taking into account its periodical, spatial and social diversity. The museum focuses on collecting, preserving and studying material concerned with the culture and history of Estonians, Estonian minorities and Finno-Ugric peoples and making it accessible.

On the tour

  • To participate in the excursion you need to show your neck card to the guide or at the box office, and say your name and the country.
  • People who have registered previously have a first priority in attending the tour.
  • When there are any vacant spots before the start of the tour, then we can add people on tour, who haven’t registered previously.
  • If the registered guest won’t be there on time and the spot is free, then we can give this spot to the next guest on our list.
  • If the excursion has already started, and the guest will be late, then they can join the tour at any time (if the vacant spot is not already given to another guest).
  • If the guest is not on the list and/or doesn’t have a neck card, they must buy the ticket themself.


Changes

If you want to change the time of the excursion, please contact Kertu Kekk-Reinhold (via SMS, phone call, e-mail, WhatsApp). Changes can be made only when there are vacancies.

NB! If you know that you can’t make it to the excursion, please let us know as soon as possible! This way we can give this spot to another guest.

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