The lure of ancient fishing villages.
Seaside fishing villages play an essential role on this trip, with their simplicity and proximity to the sea that will captivate any traveller. Saunags, Pitrags, Košrags are just some of the fishing villages founded by the livonians that still exist today. The legends say that the livonians used to live in the middle of the region as well, but various Indo-European peoples that migrated from the south pushed them to the seashore, where they have remained ever since. Do you know for example where Latvia’s only boat graveyard is? Do you know the pier that is not in a river estuary? Have you seen the Kolka lighthouse? Do you know how huge the floodlights were that Soviet border guards used to illuminate the sea?
This is a unique opportunity to see the capes formed by the Baltic Sea, as well as a collection of antlers from deer and moose! The antlers were found in the forests of Slītere when the animals shed them, leaving the old ones for you to see! Several hundred unique antlers of forest animals, even made into furniture. The villages and capes are just as remarkable as the antlers. Cape Kolka, for example, is the most distinctive cape on the Latvian coast where the waves of two seas – the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga – meet.
This route is also part of the Latvian land border crossing, which means it can be combined with other routes we offer. The Kolka cape and the sea on each side of it are one of the most distinctive features of the Latvian contour. It is mostly uncrowded, so you can take pleasant, peaceful walks along the shore and spend time with the sea “face to face”. Sandy dunes along massive pine trees, legends about sea robbers, piers and steep shores – all in one place on this Livonian Coast route, a special performance by “SelfDriveLatvia”!
