Tallinn to Tartu (Estonia)

We are currently in Tartu, Estonia. The last few days have been an amazing adventure through the northern part of Estonia. This picture was taken the second day while we took a break in a forest. The landscapes have changed from forests, to flat farms to rolling hills of towns. It has been really interesting to meet some local Estonians and so far they have all been extremely nice and super generous towards us. We met this one dude on his farm and he showed us all around his land. He had a "smoke-sauna" which is for the sauna extremists. The main idea is that you have a sauna without a chimney. You heat up the sauna for 6-8 hours while it smokes up inside, then right before you go in you let all the smoke out and you then enjoy the sauna but the smoke smell remains. Apparently it is quite the experience and I am hoping we get to try one out before we leave Estonia. He also showed us a wood-burning hot tub that was made out of the end of a oil tanker train car. He had found it somewhere and it looked like a big cast iron pot to make soup in. It was quite the find and it was interesting to hear about many of the other things on his farm. He has been one of many Estonians that we have met throughout the past few days. We are about half way through the country and we have already passed through the two most populated towns in the country. The population of Estonia is 1.3 million, about the same amount of people in Calgary. Anyways, our time in Estonia has been fantastic so far and I am super excited to continue our journey through the Baltics. I also spent a bunch of time updating the blog today and adding more photos. There are now captions to all of my photos on the photography page and all you need to do is hover over the photo to see the caption.

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