Lahemaa National Park and Baltic manors

Back in 1971, Estonia established Lahemaa as its first national park to protect a rare mix of Baroque manor landscapes and Ice Age coastlines. Just 70 km from Tallinn, the route shifts from maritime pine forests to the Viru bog boardwalks (peat layers over seven meters), and on to the fishing hamlets of Käsmu and Altja on the Gulf of Finland. Palmse and Sagadi, painstakingly restored from the 1980s, decode Baltic German estate life with formal gardens, ponds, and surviving distillery buildings.

We collect you at your hotel and head out in a Mercedes, the vehicle at your disposal all day. Your driver handles the hops—about 1 h 10 to Viru raba, then 15–20 minutes between stops—while you walk the boardwalks, tour the manor houses, and sit down to a rustic lunch. In Tallinn, your private chauffeur fine-tunes the plan to the weather: bog viewpoints in the morning, coastline later, and an unhurried return with a photo stop if evening light hits Käsmu’s glacial boulders.