Valaste waterfall

Valaste Waterfall on the Ontika Cliff belongs to the North-Estonian Klint. It is the highest waterfall, not only in Estonia, but also in all the Baltic States. Water drops almost 30 m from the edge of the escarpment there.

Photo: Tõnis Saadre

Aegviidu marginal formations

Here, in a unique marginal glacier complex, sandy plateaus alternate with steep-slope ridges. Within a rather small territory we can meet a diversity of forms that were formed during the glacier's stop in this place.

Photo: Krista Täht

Cliff on Pakri peninsula

The colourful 24 m high escarpment of Pakri Peninsula is the most impressive part of the North Estonian Klint. The 250 km long North Estonian Klint is in turn a formidable part of 1200 km long Baltic Klint. The North-Estonian Klint is a prominent natural monument both in Estonia as well as in the whole of northern Europe. Its outcrops display rocks from the Cambrian up to the Middle Ordovician, i.e. 100 million years of geological time can be followed here
(from 540 Ma up to 440 Ma).

Photo: Tõnis Saadre

Panga cliff

Panga Cliff is the highest Silurian cliff (21.3 m above the sea level and 10 m below the sea) in Saaremaa as well in Estonia. Silurian Klint on Saaremaa is a part of a cliff system that begins southward of Gotland Island (Sweden) and extends more than 500 km to the east and submerges under the Devonian on the Estonian mainland.

Photo: Tõnis Saadre

Puisa caves

Piusa Caves are the abandoned sandstone mining tunnels exposing the Middle Devonian fine-grained sandstones of the Gauja Stage. The length of its tunnels is considered to be about 20 km, but some of them have collapsed.

Photo: Tõnis Saadre

Ehalkivi - the erratic boulder

Ehalkivi (Sunset Glow Boulder) is a giant pegmatite granite boulder.
It is the largest erratic boulder in the glaciation area of North Europe.
Its maximum perimeter is 49.6 m with a volume of 930 m3. Ehalkivi is a stranger here on the southern beach of the Finish Gulf. Erratic boulders all came from the north of Estonia. For many centuries this boulder has served as a beacon for mariners.

Photo: Toomas Täht

Kallaste cliff

Old Red Sandstone is perfectly exposed in the shore bank of Peipsi Lake. These Middle Devonian (Aruküla Stage) deposits are rich with fossil fish.

Photo: Krista Täht

Väike-Pakri Island Cliff (Small Pakri)

A cliff on Väike-Pakri Island - a part of the North Estonian Klint, exposes Lower and Middle Ordovician deposits. The soft Lower Ordovician seams are often hollowed out and limestone cover breaks down as huge slabs and covers the section.

Photo: Krista Täht

Kaali meteorite crater

Kaali Meteorite Craters (the main crater and 8 collateral ones) - the rarest inanimate natural monument in Estonia as well as the most impressive crater field in the whole of Eurasia. Up to now, 3.5 kg of meteoritic material have been collected from the craters. The age estimates of the Kaali impact fluctuate in wide limits 2400-7600 years BP, but it is obvious that the Kaali meteorite was the last giant meteorite that fell in a densely populated region of the world. Finno-Ugric tribes have folk tales about the second sun and big fire. Former Estonian President Lennart Meri has explained these folk tales as stemming from the Kaali impact.

Photo: Tõnis Saadre

Haanja Nature Park (view from Suur Munamägi-Great Egg Hill)

Hilly Haanja Upland - the most "mountainous" area of Estonia. The highest mountain Suur Munamägi (318 m) is situated here. Suur Munamägi is not only the highest "mountain " in Estonia, but also in all the Baltic States.

Photo: Tõnis Saadre