BRITS in a BOG! We went SWIMMING in a BOG in Soomaa National Park, Estonia! Plus hiking & kayaking

Brits in a bog! We went swimming in a bog in Soomaa National Park Estonia! Plus hiking & kayaking

Would you go swimming in a bog?

Swimming in a bog seems to be the norm for most Estonians but for us we had no idea that swimming in a bog was even a thing, did you?

So as we were exploring Estonia all summer we figured we'd head over to Soomaa National Park to check out some board walks and visit our first ever Estonian bog! We started the day off with the beaver trail which although full of Beaver dams you're unlikely to actually see any beavers as they’re pretty shy, but there were tons of teeny tiny cute frogs!

We then made our way to our second hike in Sooma National Park which was a 5km boardwalk along the Riisa study trail where we found lots of nature including lizards! Who knew there were lizards in the Baltics? Made Craig very happy, he loves them :) and we also found the perfect bog to go swimming in! Although the water looks brown and murky it's just organic matter and is really clean for swimming in and you can even drink it - apparently! Although it does look like we jumped into a bowl of Coca cola :)

Bogs like the one we swam in are created over hundreds or thousands of years, they form when plants decay in a lake and fill it. Spending a summers day out in nature exploring and swimming in these waters allowed us to really embrace Estonian summertime and see how the locals spend their summer days enjoying this unique and beautiful landscape.

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Travel vlog 43 | Sooma National Park, Estonia | Country #4 | Filmed August 2020

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