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Im going to Riga for 5 nights with the girlfriend in Feb, and im hoping to sneak off and get a days skiing in. Any snowHead ever skied in Latvia?
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livbes wrote:
Im going to Riga for 5 nights with the girlfriend in Feb, and im hoping to sneak off and get a days skiing in. Any snowHead ever skied in Latvia?


No, but I've been to where a ski slope would have been, had it not been summer at the time - at Sigulda.

Just one shortish slope, steepish I seem to remember, and a chairlift (with a mental on-rails bobsled next to it that I had a go on, and nearly shat myself).

It's a lovely place Latvia.
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Here, look, that's me riding the chairlift back up with my friend Inga, if you zoom in really close. Note: bobsled rail.

Click here!

Edited inline pic out due to width.


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Ah thanks for that. Yeah i have had a quick look at Sigulda, easy to get to from Riga by train or bus. Cant seem to find any prices to ski there though, or ski n boot hire.
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livbes

Riga is gorgeous - we were there in September. We also got the train out of Latvia to the coast - to Jurmala, which is an upmarket summer resort. very nice and a fantastic unspoilt beach, with woods down to it and the town some way back from the beach. Worth a visit.

Anyway, from what we saw from our train trip - and from the air when coming in to land at Riga - the place is VERY flat. However, the following excellent online guide to Riga confirms that there is skiing!! Very Happy

http://www.inyourpocket.com/latvia/riga/directory/skiing

The occupation museum in Riga is also worth a look - fascinating history of Riga's oppressed past under the Nazis and Communism. We had a couple of hours there but could have spent longer. It's free too.

And finally.....Before I went someone advised me that he had never been anywhere where there were so many gorgeous local women. Let's just say he was right Shocked Shocked

Enjoy your trip.
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Latvia is one of the flattest places I've ever been and awfully full of pine trees. But Riga is indeed beautiful, with a delightful Paris-like ambience and some amazing buildings. I also visited Rundale Palace (designed by Rastrelli, who designed the Winter Palace in Petersburg) it's stunning. And I went to Kuldiga (the old town) which is also charming, with many old buildings and the largest waterfall - widthways! - in Europe. My father was born in Kuldiga and the old town seemed to me to be unchanged from his descriptions.
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Hi, here are links of some ski hills close to Riga


(in Sigulda. about 50 kms from Riga - train&bus connection)

http://www.kakiskalns.lv/en/

http://www.kordestrase.lv/ (steepest)

http://www.ocs.lv/ (only in latvian. it is just what is displayed in the picture)


(in Cesis about 90kms kms from Riga - train&bus connection)

http://www.ozolkalns.lv/Default.aspx?alias=www.ozolkalns.lv/en

http://zagarkalns.lv/en/


in Baldone (nearest to Riga. about 38 kms. by bus or car)

http://riekstukalns.lv/en/

http://riekstukalns.lv/en/


There are more places to go, but those ones are not so close to Riga.

Please check out English version of www.slalom.lv for another destinations
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Hurtle wrote:
Latvia is one of the flattest places I've ever been and awfully full of pine trees.


Lithuania is flatter, and Estonia even more full of pine trees.
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cbr7, that website is excellent, thanks.
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