Route Nr.24 „Livonian Coast”: Roja – Kolka – Mazirbe

Route: Roja – Kolka – Mazirbe
Duration: 5 - 7 hours
Length: ~ 70 km
Sights: 21
Required: weather-appropriate clothing and footwear for outdoor activities, and a picnic meal
Difficulty of the route: can be done by car; for 4x4 SUVs there is one additional rural route section .

The lure of ancient fishing villages.

Seaside fishing villages play an essential role on this trip, with their simplicity and proximity to the sea that will captivate any traveller. Saunags, Pitrags, Košrags are just some of the fishing villages founded by the livonians that still exist today. The legends say that the livonians used to live in the middle of the region as well, but various Indo-European peoples that migrated from the south pushed them to the seashore, where they have remained ever since. Do you know for example where Latvia’s only boat graveyard is? Do you know the pier that is not in a river estuary? Have you seen the Kolka lighthouse? Do you know how huge the floodlights were that Soviet border guards used to illuminate the sea?

The most important information about the route:

Seaside nature and cultural-historical buildings
There are some unique sights - Cape Kolka, Kolka pier, Pūrciems White Dune trail, ancient fishing villages, Mazirbe boat cemetery, and more
There are pine forests and there are water bodies - the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Riga
Roads with different pavements, also some bumpy forest roads
Several shorter and longer hikes are possible. Swimming is possible in many places in summer

For this cost you get everything you need for your itinerary:

The best and most interesting sights in the area
An overview map of the route
List of sites and short descriptions
Route track and waypoints in GPX file format

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Route description

In search of antlers

This is a unique opportunity to see the capes formed by the Baltic Sea, as well as a collection of antlers from deer and moose! The antlers were found in the forests of Slītere when the animals shed them, leaving the old ones for you to see! Several hundred unique antlers of forest animals, even made into furniture. The villages and capes are just as remarkable as the antlers. Cape Kolka, for example, is the most distinctive cape on the Latvian coast where the waves of two seas – the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga – meet.

Cape Kolka - an important landmark for travellers to Latvia

This route is also part of the Latvian land border crossing, which means it can be combined with other routes we offer. The Kolka cape and the sea on each side of it are one of the most distinctive features of the Latvian contour. It is mostly uncrowded, so you can take pleasant, peaceful walks along the shore and spend time with the sea “face to face”. Sandy dunes along massive pine trees, legends about sea robbers, piers and steep shores – all in one place on this Livonian Coast route, a special performance by “SelfDriveLatvia”!

Route Nr.24 „Livonian Coast”: Roja – Kolka – Mazirbe

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Route Nr.24 „Livonian Coast”: Roja – Kolka – Mazirbe

The most important information about the route:

For this cost you get everything you need for your itinerary:

Photo

Route description

In search of antlers

Cape Kolka - an important landmark for travellers to Latvia

Map

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