Day 6 - Across the Baltic Sea to charming Riga
With a picnic breakfast provided by our hotel, we make an early
start today for a short morning flight over the Baltic Sea to
Latvia.
The Baltic countries of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania each have
fantastic, individual cultures, but they came together to throw off
the shackles of the Soviet regime in the late 1980s. In 1989, more
than two million people from the three countries formed a human
chain stretching more than 400 miles from Vilnius in Lithuania,
through Riga, to Tallinn in Estonia. This peaceful act resulted in
independence for the Baltic states and, consequently, the breakup
of the Soviet Union. It is a historic moment commemorated in Riga
by two footsteps in the middle of Kaku Street in the Old Town,
close to our 4-Star hotel.
After checking in, there is a free afternoon to unwind or
explore. In the expansive park opposite our hotel, you can find the
national art gallery and natural history museum, while the
monolithic Freedom Monument signifies the border of Riga's stunning
Old Town. Dinner this evening is at our landmark hotel.
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