If you are interested in nature, do go there. It's a wooden trail through the swamp accompanied with information stands re the local flora and fauna and nature/characteristics of the swamp. It's about 3 km long one way, you can return the same way or go out and go back through the wood. Navigation should know; Viro swamp or in our case it was: Болото Виру. Free of charge, open all year round all day long.

If you're looking for somewhere quiet to relax and enjoy the nature around you, or simply somewhere to retreat and take a break from busy life, I highly recommend this tour. Thanks to Hannes Ausmees, our guide, me and my mum had an amazing time, definitely we were not disappointed.

Start at the visitor centre in Palmse to get a fine insight into what to see. We then did Sagadi, Altja, Vergi, lunched at Vosu, walked out to the Baltic at Kasmu and came back via the bog walk near Kolga. Such variety and native beauty in a day. The roads are excellent and only the bog is not easy to find given good signage. In May the vegetation was far behind the UK but the birds we saw were majestic - heron, swans, skuas, etc. To get the best out of this area you need to know its history and understand its geology. The Palmse visitor centre has all this if you have not read up in advance.

Lovely to see how this country free from Soviet chains since 1991 is propering and the amount of summer homes there are set in this remote forest area.