We have so many different bogs and swamps in Estonia, in fact, 22,3% of all the country is a wetland. I have been to so many of them yet I have never seen half of them. I went to a bog ( can't remember the name right now ) a week ago but this is a topic of another post. This time we are going back in time a little and I will show you the Viru bog in northern Estonia. I visited this place pretty much a little over a year ago. I remember that this was the first really warm day of the year and my friends agreed that we should do something. I proposed that we should go to this bog for a walk. So we went on a short one-day car trip and visited some other places as well. I already wrote about those places last year.

So Viru bog is located in the northern part of the country, in Harjumaa region. This bog itself is pretty small when compared with the other ones but it contains pretty much everything you can see in a wetland. Since the cold times have just passed, many of the small lakes were still ice covered.

Through the bog leads a trail 3.5 kilometers long and you can walk on the wooden pathway.

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This place is also a pretty huge tourist attraction because it's not too far away from the Estonian capital Tallinn.

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In the center of the bog you can also find a viewing tower where you can climb on. Up there appears a nice view over all the place.

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For fun, I also add a shot never intended for uploading to Steemit. Its a group shot I took where I'm also on, the guy with a yellow jacket.
There is also a fun story behind this photo. While I had my camera on a timer. One of the guys farted really hard just before the shot and disturbed the waiting in silence. This is why we are all laughing hard on this photo.

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Let's have a little fun. Can you guess who was that farting sinner there on the photo? I will send 1 Steem to the one who guesses right XD. If there are multiple right answers then the winner is the one submitted the answer earlier.

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