The "Rural Lifestyle" offer allows you to learn about how people live in rural areas today. Local residents will help you to see everyday processes, and you'll be able to help with and learn about gardening, design craftsmanship, healthy food, innovative products, the local architecture and environment, a green lifestyle, harvest and traditional celebrations, as well as markets and festivals.
The Rye Road invites you to visit rural entrepreneurs who make rye bread, using traditional recipes, make various dishes from rye bread or rye flour and serve them to their guests. The owners demonstrate the bread-making process to the visitors, allow them to attempt to make their very own loaf of bread, offer healthy and delicious rye grain dishes, drinks that retain the strength of the rye grain.
The Cider Route invites you on a journey to discover the varied world of cider in Latvia – cider types, cider drinking traditions and nuances of cider-making. You are invited to gardens and cideries, from the wondrous spring, adorned with apple blossoms, to autumn, filled with the aroma of ripe apples; you will visit owners that serve genuine Latvian cider at their guest houses as well as have the opportunity to discover different tastes at cider celebrations.
By visiting the stops of the culinary route "Flavors of Livonia" in Latvia and Estonia - pubs, restaurants, homesteads and farm farms, you will learn about the influence of Livonian time in modern dishes. Although the borders of Livonia have been long extinguished from the maps, our menu is still essentially the same as the dishes of our ancestors. All history on the table right here!
Seven routes in Latvia that are devoted to three dimensions of time – the past, the present and the future, inviting you to look at how the Latvian state was established and the twists and turns that it experienced in the more recent and more distant past.
The offer of agro-tourism and historical heritage involves farms that are open to visitors, interactive museums, private collections and other places where people can learn about life in the countryside and the historical heritage that is linked to agriculture. Visitors will learn about manufacturing processes from start to finish. This can involve modern farms which offer visitors a look at their work and their history.
These are gardens, botanical gardens and plant collections open to visitors and showing horticulture and gardening traditions, historical varieties of fruit, vegetables, herbs, ornamental trees, bushes and flowers. In specialized gardens visitors may also learn about historical cultivars, their use, and achievements of local plant breeders.
The Sign of Latvian Heritage was established at the initiative of Country Traveller, and it is presented to tourism-related entrepreneurs who preserve and promote Latvian cultural and lifestyle heritage by presenting it to visitors.
If you're a fan of a green and healthy lifestyle, nature and the countryside environment, then "Green Holidays" will be just for you! Here you will find countryside accommodations, which have received the "Green Certificate".
Latvia has a wealth of culinary traditions, because the country is at the crossroads of Europe, and so influences from other nations have come from the East and the West over the course of centuries. Logo "Latvian cuisine" highlights the places where you can enjoy Latvian dishes.
These leisure offers are intended to provide you with feelings of emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing. Peace, quiet, open spaces, fresh air, pampering yourself, a healthy lifestyle, gentle exercise, beautiful surroundings, closeness to nature – all of these are skilfully merged to provide you with a sense of harmony
An extensive and special offer in the countryside for children and teenagers of various ages and with various interests. People can learn about life in the countryside and enjoy leisure and recreation in a safe and healthy country environment.
In this section you will find the offers which are carefully selected, provide senior friendly service and accept the “Silver Suitcase” member card. Senior travellers are expected to be in the age of 55+.
This title is awarded to farms and manufacturing facilities that prove mastery in cheese making, can talk about the process with visitors, and offer samples for tasting or buying. The title is also awarded to rural saloons, restaurants and other venues that offer locally made cheeses on their menus.