BRITS in a BOG! We went SWIMMING in a BOG in Soomaa National Park, Estonia! Plus hiking & kayaking
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- 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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Soomaa is actually most famous for it's Spring time flooding as the snow melts. Then you can do canoeing in the flooded forests between trees and there are quite many houses in the water up to second floor at times and you can paddle in someone's back yard so to say. It's very cool.
Brad Grassforest 19:50 🙂
Brad Grassforest it sounds amazing to see it like that. Have you been in spring time?
@@josiesaunders8122 oh ok missed that when I was watching :)
@@TideKnotTravellers yes, I have only been there once and it was in Spring during the floods. Took lot of pictures, canoeing between small ice batches and houses. :)
Visited there in 2014, one of the wooden trails is suitable for wheelchair users as well, and I was able to see many of the same plants. Estonians certainly have a different way of appreciating nature.
Steve Tarrant we loved how the boardwalks were suitable for everyone including wheelchairs and pushchairs, allowing everyone to appreciate nature safely😊
I'm so glad that you did bog walking!
Emily the human it was great fun! Even better than we imagined☺️
Nice keep it safe guys
Thanks, you too!
That hike on the boardwalk is absolutely magical. I can't believe you could see all that wildlife including beavers! Those colorful mushrooms are crazy. I would love to swim in a bog...the color of the water is so cool. What a unique experience! This is definitely one my favorite vlogs from you guys. :)
April Chu thank you so much☺️ it was such a cool place to visit and definitely a unique experience, never thought we’d be saying we went swimming in a bog but it was really fun!
Nice! Brits, bogs and a beaver. Only things missing are beer and burritos! 😊
Etunimi Sukunimi 😂 yes! 🍺🌯
Awesome video guys 😁. That Bog walk looks absolutely amazing! I love the elevated timber walkway. That water looks dark red. Such a beautiful area. We have never heard of a Bog before. Learning new things everyday. I really love the reflections of the clouds in the water from the drone views. 😁
Thanks ☺️ the water is dark due to the peat and plant minerals, a bog is basically a swamp, like where Shrek lives🤣 luckily no green ogres there though just nature and places to swim!☺️
Amazing video again guys :) thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching😊
The reflections of the clouds in the water bodies throughout the hike was awesome ❤️ !! The plunge in the bog was fun....
It was amazing walking for miles and seeing the reflections in the bogs the whole way round, really unique experience🤩
This looks like a beautiful nature day! But once I saw the lizard I have to say i would be way too afraid to swim in the Bog - who knows what’s in there! Lol
The Traveling Swiss 🦎we love lizards so totally wouldn’t mind swimming with them😆
Are Beavers afraid of people? You would love the Monitor Lizards in Thailand. A swim is so refreshing after a hike. You would be surprised how high Butterflies can go. I have even seen them flying over the Sea. Sunset, a Canoe and jumpers! Score 10! Safe travels!
That’s a really good question but I imagine they are as they seem to hide from humans a lot! It’s crazy how a delicate butterfly can carry itself so high😮 you’re right he would love the monitor lizards in Thailand, we had a huge Iguana under our car in Florida once and where most people would be afraid, we loved it! 🦎😆
Really nice that you had that bog all to yourselves for a swim! Looks like it was a beautiful hike!
The Map Pinners it was an awesome place to hike & swim! 😎
Nice and peaceful trail. Looks like an enjoyable day
It was a ‘good for the soul’ kinda day😊
So many lizards! I'm oddly into them lol love the walks by the water and the nature. I would have been scared to swim at first, the water seems reddish. Love this video guys, really fun video to watch!
Travel Interesante - Gökçe and Steve it wasn’t scary to swim as everyone was swimming in the bogs there and it was so nice to cool off but it was strange jumping into such dark water😄
Thanks for bringing back the summer :)
Rainer Vilumaa editing this summer footage makes us smile 😊
@@TideKnotTravellers I bet.
Just caught up on my Monday morning edition of the Craig & Kirsty show. Another great video, looks fantastic
Happy Monday! 😄
🤣🤣, Hope both of you are well, you both look fab, it's always great to see your new adventures
We’re good, still making new adventures despite this crazy world😅
An amazing Park - it’s huge! Those walk ways must go for miles!?! Usual money, work & effort has gone into it!
Bet the swim was refreshing!
I LOVE THE reflections in the water, you captured. FAB. The boat trip looked relaxing - for Craig!!🤣
Pity you didn’t see any beavers but tall order for a shy animal.
Thanks for another great tour!👍
They have so many trails to choose from too. So amazing seeing how well they respect their nature😍
I loved all the hiking footage in this episode. The color of the water was so interesting in the bog. The drone footage was cool to see the reflection of the clouds. All the lizards reminds me of Florida!
Yeh the bogs get their colour from the peat and plants, it felt very fresh and clean even though it looked like we jumped into a bottle of coke or something😂 Craig is hilarious in Florida, I lose him every 5 minutes as he wanders off to follow a lizard somewhere! 🦎
water is that color couse water has high iron level in it. And its actually healty to swim in that water, and couse it has high iron level water temperature is lower than normal water.
Too much fun. Nice video! Loved the lilly pads haven’t seen those in a long time. Droning always nice! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Craig, goes swimming, emerges with perfect hair! 😁😀😁😀
Craig, busy filming whilst Kirsty rows.
Great video again guys.
🤣👏🏼 exactly this!
@@TideKnotTravellers i have a feeling this is Kirstys response 😁
thepanamahat 👍🏼😆 how did you guess?!
@@TideKnotTravellers sorry Craig lmao
Wow that is seriously some beautiful nature trails! It's too bad you didn't get to see any beavers in the beaver trail. But you did find some other great little creatures. I can't say I've ever swam in a bog before. Such a great day. Love the reflections on that river - glad those rapids didn't get you! 🤣
We didn’t think we’d see beavers as they’re super stealthy but was so cool seeing their dams and habitats. Yeh swimming in a bog is not something that sounds anywhere near as nice as it is. The locals were just sunbathing and swimming in them all day😎
Fabulous day, friends!
But what is it that I hear?
At 10:56 Craig pronounces "õpperada" like a boss!
Well done, mate 😎👍
Got that õ sound together at last! 😄
How absolutely cool was that butterfly staying on your finger Craig, wow! Kirsty is defs the gecko whisperer :) that bog in Sooma National Park looks like an absolute treat, loved all the information. Drone footage was on point. We would also say it looked like a great nature day :) that reflection on the water of the sky and clouds while you were kayaking is just sooooo cool.
Yeh Craig was so at one with nature he got himself a butterfly bff😄 the National Parks in Estonia have blown us away with their beauty and diversity, we didn’t expect to see lizards in the Baltics!
you said you had swim all to yourselves, and then in next frame i see a bog zombie behind Kirsty
Yes some people turned up just after Craig said it. I laughed that it looked that way too with someone swimming behind me, bog zombie😂
wish I got to all of this places in the summer... but i guess its good inspiration for next year!
Yes, good to have plans for next summer😊
This is how you spend a perfect Estonian summer day! Kayaking, hiking and swimming in a swamp 🙂👌 i bet there's a lot of well preserved bodies under that lovely brown water 😂👏
We definitely listened to all the advice about what to do in Estonia summertime. Learned about the preservation of dead body thing after we swam here😂
@@TideKnotTravellers hahaha, we should be more scared of living bodies 😅 dead one's only make bathing extra rich with elements, makes your hair look shiny 😂👍
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@Mängu Asi definitely sauna and at least 3 beers, I would not dip my feet in it without being tipsy, that was very brave of them 🙂 I heard that devil lives in a bog... Could drag you down 👿🤣
Tadas C thankful we didn’t bump into him 🤣😈
1:17 The French engineering at its best! 😁
Al Ex 😂
I was hiking and swimming in the same spot yesterday, loved it so much!
Ahh lovely! It’s such a peaceful place ☺️
Seems like such a great and peaceful hike love that it's made with all the slabs of wood. The color of the big water was interesting not sure if I would just in haha. But I loved the drone shots of the park and bog, were the batteries dead for kayaking or did you not want to risk bringing the drone in the 🛶? Seemed like it would have been awesome sunset shots of the river.
DjusLife the bog is full of plant minerals which give it that colour🙂normally we would have got the aerial shots in the kayak but this one wasn’t like the rowing boat where we could safely land the drone, this one was like a sports kayak that tips up and is wet inside so we put all our stuff in the pink dry back and couldn’t fly the drone. It was a beautiful sunset on the river though☺️
we had no idea that swimming in a bog was even a thing, good to know that it's quite famous to do in Estonia. Could see the yellow water but looks fun though! just wondering, do they allow all bogs to be swim or just only the chosen/ permitted bog one? love kayaking and the drone shot is amazing too! thanks for this tour, learn new thing from your vlog.
It’s just something they all do in many bogs out in nature not just this one it’s a lovely thing to do in such a unique landscape. We had never heard of it before coming to Estonia either🙂
I'm terrified of frogs and you are calling one cute 😲 lol
😂 definitely don’t do the beaver trail if you don’t like frogs, there were baby ones jumping around all over the path as we walked! 🐸
nice idol new friend here
Awesome videos. One thing though, to hear your talk we have to increase the volume and then in between the background music pops with huge volume so again adjust the volume, this is endless 😁
Thank you so much for the feedback. We have adjusted the volume for our more recent videos (hopefully it’s worked) we tested it on a laptop vs TV screen and the sound is so different watching on each. The TV had exactly as you described whereas the laptop (which is where we edit them) sounded fine so now we try to adjust with this in mind☺️
@@TideKnotTravellers good to hear, actually I was watching it on mobile phone😃. Will check the latest videos 👍
*Soomaa- bogland
Ahh makes sense! 😊
Come to my home, I live at tartu
We have a video coming up in Tartu soon! 😊
@@TideKnotTravellers oh i think imma hunt for you to get a picture
@@TideKnotTravellers looking forward to see those Tartu shots!
Estonia may be a small country but nevertheless it has some local dialects! Not as many as the UK has but still... Tartu is one of the few!
You have a typo in the title. It’s SoomaA
Thank you, updated it now and in the description too 🙂
Obviously, it is not possible to make an omelette without breaking eggs... it used to be a place full of wild animals, but you could hardly meet any other human there; now it is the most crowded "lonely" place ever.
Our ratio of people versus nature felt very good on this day 😊