Kemeri National Park

We let the car rest today and walked on foot to discover the national park near Jurmala. First we went to the train station and traveled to Kemeri by train to the center of the park.

From the Kemeri railway station we went to the main attraction, the marshland. There is a three-and-a-half-kilometer route on top of planks and footbridges. It is not worth getting off the planks because the soil is very swampy, wherever you can sink into the ground. There is a lookout point at the end of the road, from here you can see the whole area. The former lake is surrounded by pine forest, but only low shrubs and smaller trees living here.

 

 

 

From here we went back to the town of Kemeri, Kemeri Park, where long ago, between the two world wars, there were sparkling social life. Even with Moscow, the city was in a railway connection, so famous was the spa center here.

 

 

 

After visiting the park, we went to Lake Solka to a bird watching point. Bird watching was not successful though (in the absence of birds), but we found a geocaching box nearby.

 

 

We ate in Neptuns restaurant where we had a well-deserved delicious dinner after walking more than 20 kilometers. But our journey was not over yet, six kilometers left over on the sandy shores of the Bay of Riga to our campsite.

Tired, but we were happy to return to our tent, there was a grueling day behind us.