Natural Park Haanja Photo: Natural Park Haanja

On-site Huangshi hills is a nature Park, created for the purpose of implementing surveillance and research activities on the territory of the highest region of Estonia. In the natural Park, apart from a large number of hills of various shapes and heights, you can meet and valleys with small lakes, the villages inhabited by residents who appreciate and preserve their centuries-old customs and traditions.

Hanska hill is located in the South-Eastern part of Estonia, a small part is located in Latvia. The highest point is the Suur munamägi, whose height is 318 meters above sea level. Also in the Park is the deepest lake in Estonia. It's called rõuge Suurjarv, the maximum depth of the lake reaches the mark of 38 meters.

Natural Park Haanja extremely attractive for tourists, especially those who like to relax actively. In summer and in winter you can conquer the highest point of elevation on a special trail. In this case, your path will begin from the village of Haanja at the foot of the hill and ends at the observation tower Watetown built on the top of the mountain Suur munamägi. This tower was built in 1939, while its height was 25, 7 p.m. In 1969, was renovated, which has another floor. The height of the tower increased to 29, 1 meter. In 1999-2005, the tower was reconstructed and updated. It was built of glass a coffee shop with a permanent exhibition. In 2005 he built the Elevator tower. With a height of 346, 7 meters a magnificent view of the Estonia in the radius of 50 kilometers.

There is another nature trail, popular with tourists. It is located on the mountain of Wallarah, a height of 304 meters. The height of the mountain from bottom to top is 84 meters. The trail passes along the slopes of the mountain, the angle of which sometimes reaches 35-40 degrees. On top of Vallemar is peat bog, with the largest thickness in peat in Estonia (17 m). There is a popular superstition connected with this mountain: if in dry weather mount "smoke" (steam coming from it), then wait for the imminent rain.

Natural Park Haanja attracts many tourists and in the winter, when they try to get fans of winter sports. The hilly landscape Haanja literally attracts skiers and snow enough here until spring!

In the Park there is another interesting attraction is the ancient valley of rõuge, the maximum depth reaches 75 meters below sea level. There is also the Valley of the nightingales, which have preserved traces is here once settlement of ancient Estonians. In addition, it boasts a large number of sources.

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Natural Park Haanja