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Come and have a good time with Aleks.
(My rates are at the bottom of this page)
For Details of Riga Tour Click Here
Here I am showing Mrs. Goldstein an exhibit in a
Riga Museum as part of a tour of Riga, Latvia. I can tell
you what the documents say. Come Join Me On a Tour of Riga
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I Specialize in
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Genealogical trips to your ancestral towns.
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Geological and paleontology trips. I am only one guide
in Baltic States who offers tourists the possibility to
find the panzer and fish teeth of Devonian
period (350 millions years ago, when the life just started
to come out of water).
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Regular
5-days tours TALLINN-RIGA-VILNIUS, with visits to ancestral
towns and main sightseeing of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
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Birds
watching with strong binoculars in Kolka sea corn, in my opinion
the most energetic locality in our region.
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Adventures in natural reserves: Slitere in Latvia and
Curonian split in Lithuania.
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Here are some
reasons to
visit Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia
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N ATURAL BEAUTY.
The islands of Estonia, red rocks and
caverns of Sigulda in Latvia, blue lakes of Latgale, Old
towns of Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius – all this sites are full
with charm and you never forget such beauty. The great
German geographer Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859) wrote : “
Everybody must see the Curonian Spit as everybody must see
Italy or Greece “. Follow the advice and you will never regret
it!
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R ICH HISTORY, REFLECTED IN ARCHITECTURE. The profitable
geographical position of this land always attracted the
invaders : Vikings, Danes, Germans, Poles, Swedes and
Russians. By this reason the countries are very interesting
for those interested in history- you can see the ruins of
castles of German knights of XIII century, the port towns of
XIV-XVII centuries, gorgeous art nouveau buildings . Do not
forget the baroque Rundale palace of Duke of Kurland, which
can to compete with Versailles and tsar's palaces of Saint
Petersburg. You can visit the ethnographical Museums for to
see how lived local peasants and fishermen.
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THIS IS MOTHERLAND OF RABBI ABRAHAM KOOK AND VILNO GAON,
PAINTERS MARC ROTHKO , YEHUDA PENN, ISAACK LEVITAN ,
CIURLIONIS AND JANIS ROZENTALS , FILM DIRECTOR SERGEY
EISENSTEIN, FRENSH FILOSOFER EMMANUEL LEVINAS AND WRITER
ROMAIN GARY, NOBEL PRIZE LAUREAT WILHELM OSTWALD, POETS
JANIS RAINIS, LIDIA KOIDULA, ADAM MICKEVICZ AND CZESLAV
MILOSZ.
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BALTIC COUNTRY IS A GREAT
RESORT AREA. In Soviet times
Jurmala in Latvia, Palanga in Lithuania and Parnu in Estonia
were third most popular resorts in USSR after Crimea and
Caucasus. This is because the cocktail of fresh sea, long
sand beaches, high pine trees with balsamic air and full
with cranberry, blueberry and blackberry.
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JUST NEARBY – SWEDEN , FINLAND, RUSSIA. From Tallinn you can
made 1 day trip to Helsinki. Or 3 days trip to Stockholm
from Riga by ship. By train, bus or airplane you can visit
Moscow or St Petersburg.
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One day or
several days, I provide tour guide, hotel reservations,
transportation arrangements
(taxi, rental car, mini-vans, buses), tour operation of
cruise ships, organizing of meetings with local Jewish
communities or any another wishes. Please contact me
aleksgen@balticgen.com
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