Widest waterfall in Europe

Today we crossed the Latvia-Lithuania border. First we followed a road close to the coastline and then took the direction to Kuldiga after Liepaja, which was our first stop of the day.

Latvia is almost has the same area as Lithuania, 64,500 km2, but it is inhabited by less than 1 million, with a total population of 2 million.

If Lithuania was not crowded then Latvia is almost empty. Few are on the roads, you can drive well. However, it is quite surprising that on one-digit highways you can see tractors and other slow vehicles ambling. The quality of the roads is similar in both countries. The most important routes are of good quality, usually only two lanes, but often with sloping or broad lanes, but elsewhere, between smaller settlements still have dirt roads. Lots of road constructions going on which slows you down.

Reaching Kuldiga, we headed for the waterfall, which is the widest in Europe: 249 meter. But it has the hight of only about 2 meters. Funny sight. We just saw a bunch of people walking on water(fall) so we decided to get across it too. It was fun, barefoot, but a bit slippery. Take care when you take that path!

We moved from Kuldiga to Riga, but we have only reached Jurmala for the time being, looking for a campsite for two nights.

Jurmala is a seaside resort on the coast of the Gulf of Riga, but we did not come here to see the beach, but because of the discovery of the Kemeri National Park.

This is tomorrow's program.