A Private Riga City Tour & Ethnographical Open Air Museum Tour for cruise passengers, 6 hrs

Tour duration: approx. 6 hours (2.5 hrs open air museum tour + 1,5 hrs Riga driving tour + 2 hrs Riga walking tour)

Meeting point: Our guide will pick you up at harbor
Included in price: 3 hrs guided driving&walking tour through Riga and its Old Town, visit to ethnographical open air museum (entrance tickets and short folklore show included)
Important: please take with you some sandwiches or snacks because originally lunch is not included in this tour (but it can be additionally booked upon request)

This Riga City Tour & Ethnographical Open Air museum visit is a great combination to have a complete insight into Latvian History & Culture. This is a complete full day shore excursion for cruise passengers in order to spend an unforgettable and relaxing time in Riga, Latvia. Cruise passengers will be picked up at harbor and will be taken to the open air ethnographical museum which is a huge museum-complex situated in a very beautiful place out of city centre. In this ethnographical museum you will be able to discover examples of authentical Latvian culture, architecture and traditions. After getting familiar with the oldest part of Latvia history you will be taken back to Riga in order to get to know this astonishing and well preserved hanseatic city. During Riga City Tour cruise passengers can get acquainted with the most important and magnificient historical places of Riga and its Old Town. The Guided Riga City Tour consists of driving part (approx 1,5hrs) and walking part (approx 2 hours). After the walking part our guide will leave you in the old town suggesting you the best places to see and stay during the rest of the afternoon so that you can have unforgettable time in this lively and charming old town whether enjoying its terraces, shopping places or getting more profound insight into Latvian cultures visiting some tourist attraction places and museums.

The tour starts with a visit to the ethnographical open air museum (approx 2,5 hrs with transfers included)
The Latvian Ethnographic Museum was founded in 1924 and is one of the oldest open-air museums in Europe. It is situated 10 km from Riga city centre in a pine forest on the banks of Lake Jugla. This museum has is the best example of authentic Latvian culture consisting of most important historical and cultural heritage examples that have been assembled from the four provinces of Latvia: Kurzeme, Vidzeme, Latgale and Zemgale. You will find here traditional rural buildings, farmhouses, windmills, fishermenš huts, churches and artisans' homesteads. You will also have a unique possibility to witness how traditional Latvian crafts are created because the museum counts with masters of 18 different crafts demonstrating their work: spoon-carvers, bee-keepers, potters and others.
You will also have a wonderful opportunity to experience some traditional Latvian folk music during a short concert performed by a local folk group. After this tour you will be taken back to Riga city in order to explore its history and discover its most important landmarks.

Riga City combined driving and walking tour unites both Old Town's beauty and more distant Riga’s districts and places of attraction. You will be invited to view the most significant sights of Riga: central streets and boulevards of Riga, the Bastion Hill, Laima clock, The University of Latvia, Latvian Opera House, Passenger Terminal and Daugava River, Brethren cemetery and Art Nouveau architecture.

After the driving the walking part through the Old City is followed. During Riga Old Town Tour our experienced guide will walk you through the labyrinth of cobble-stoned streets and tell the most amazing historical facts and legends of Riga making you feel to have made a journey back in time. Riga Old Town can be proud of very well preserved cultural heritage, you will be surprised of old town churches, romantic medieval cobble-stoned streets, hanseatic style buildings, lively squares and small parks. Our guide will take you to the most significant places and sights of Riga: Latvian National Opera, Convent Yard, St.Peter church, Dome Cathedral, Small and Great Guild, Cat House, Dominican monastery, House of Blackheads, Roland's statue, St. Jacob's Church, St. John's Church, Riga Castle, Swedish Gate, Three Brothers, the Freedom monument and others. You will have a complete outsight impression of these historical places and if you would be interested to get more profound insight into Latvian history there is a possibility to have insight visits to all these monuments when the guided tour is finished (please contact us and we will send you information about timetables and prices).