Where Heaven Meets Earth

Last weekend I went on a hiking trip with some other international students to what is known as the most beautiful part of southern Estonian. We took a bus to Põlva which is an hour away and then we hiked 10 km to Taevaskoda. Taevaskoda translates to "Where Heaven Meets Earth" and it was beautiful. The only terrible part about the hike was the mosquitos. Because Estonian had such a harsh winter they are having an unusually warm spring, which means that there are even more mosquitos than usual. I came home with about 34.6 mosquito bites. We could not get away from them...and they seem to be immune to bug spray. We were also hiking along the river which did not help with the mosquitos. However, even with all the bug bites we all the a wonderful time.


Before we went into the forest we found a nice barn with a giant stork on the chimeney.

There were a couple houses in the middle of nowhere along the trail.

There wasn't a clear path to follow so we had to climb over and under and across trees.

All of the girls went swimming in the river.

Sean is wearing his protective mosquito gear since the bug spray didn't work.

Sandstone cave with a natural spring.

"Where Heaven Meets Earth"

Taevaskoda was a giant sandstone cliff surrounded trees and the river below.

The most beautiful place in southern Estonia!