Recommended Weekend Excursions From Tallinn

An hour’s bus ride from Tallinn is Viitna in the Lahemaa National Park. Two parts of the reserve are open to visitors, the Koljaku-Oandu Reserve and the Laokasu Reserve, which has a 7000-year old bog. Palmse, in the outskirts of the park, is a fabulous baroque 18th century manor house. One can stay in Palmse, or in any of the outlying village and fishing hamlets.