Cycling through the Gauja National Park is a fantastic way to discover Latvia’s beautiful nature, cities and towns and get back to basics on a 2 – 3 day bike tour.
Riga Central Station here we’ve just picked up the bicycles there’s Tom there we’ve got the bikes we’re about to jump on the train full of bikes bit of a squeeze made it to Val mirror off the train now we’re gonna start figuring out the route here we are we come out and
It’s like really nice farmlands and so on so beautiful around here but big gravelly so just there keep an eye on the road when you’re right sandstone cliffs down by the gaya River here you got some cool big old cliffs here all right so you see it mostly it’s like
Dirt roads quite nice green scenery lots of rolling farmland the road conditions go up and down like some of its like this is smooth you really have to yeah be aware that some of those gravelly bits gonna take a bit more energy than you anticipated but here’s just lovely
No complaints you can get down to the river at some points a little dip when I go for a swim we made it to cercis it looks like they’ve got some major city festival going on Datum to date number two away off some terraces this city first things still going on and we’re gonna ride now to leak it now it’s a Sunday it’s not that busy but it’s nice it goes up and down not far out at CSIS just green fields nice old church and bits and pieces
That’s a pond great place to have a quick break and now we go to find the windmill that’s the 100 mile bicycle stair right there taking on so the great thing about this route is the number of little rivers that you can come down to we just come
Down to the amateur river here and yeah 20 kilometers on the road it’s not a lot dirt gravel it’s definitely nice to be able to jump in and freshen up so this is a perfect spot for a stop this is what you need in your guide like
Make sure you stop off here are you filming me there’s loads of stops on this way and this is another one I set up cliffs with another River to pop into of course like the cycling is one thing but like make sure that you check out some of the
Other points that are listed on the map because you wouldn’t want to miss this really would you as you come into League at now you got the chance to go to an old Soviet nuclear bunker and it’s located in an old sanatorium building we’re not going to visit ourselves
Because it’s dinner time for us but if you are interested in that Soviet stuff why not so that’s the league of notepaper Factory look at my house these really cool cave systems that were hand carved into sandstone and they keep potatoes in here and there’s also a few little kind of
Souvenir e stuff to pick up really this is a lovely place to be we made it down to leak it now and that’s our little home for the night so really nice different accommodation on this trip and this place is just super lush lots of things to see and it smells
Really good there’s some good food around this is not a Latvian snake this is a bungee cord and one thing you really want to be careful about is having them drop through your back crack and a wrap around your gears because as you can see by this guy’s hands well he’s not that
Bad okay so this is the last morning and we’re eating some nice breakfast after this ride short ride up a hill catch the train back to Riga see you soon we’ve made it to Li get nastácia and this is our final stop on the trip had a little
Bit of rain today not too much it’s only about a six kilometre up a hill to the train station and we’re gonna be back in Riga by lunchtime so all in all a nice little two and a half day trip when you’re in Riga it’s a good idea to go to
The Radisson and you can check out the lifts