Kuimetsa karst area (Vaopere)
| nature conservation park / area, interesting place, natural monument
Estonia /
Rapla /
Kuimetsa /
Vaopere
World
/ Estonia
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nature conservation park / area, interesting place, natural monument
Kuimetsa is home to one of the most extensive and unique karst areas in Estonia. Visitors to it will see collapsed valleys, funnels, hollows, channels and caves. Five of the caves in the area are big enough to walk into. One of the biggest is 12 metres long and 8 metres wide and forms the opening of a collapsed funnel. During times of high water you can watch the flows passing through the hollows and channels and hear the rush of the water underground; at drier times, there is hardly any water to be seen at all. Here you will find Estonia’s biggest karst caves *The chronicles of Henry the Latvian claim that the ancient Estonians sheltered in these caves from aggressors
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 59°3'27"N 25°8'14"E
- Paljassaare Special Conservation Area 54 km
- Hara Wetland 63 km
- Vanhankaupunginlahti 129 km
- Small Tyters 131 km
- Sipoonkorpi 145 km
- Valkmusa national park 190 km
- Aulanko park 223 km
- Repovesi National Park 258 km
- Park, 261 km
- Puurijärvi-Isosuo National Park 288 km
- Habaja manor 5.4 km
- Kadja Lake 6.7 km
- Kaiu 6.9 km
- Kõue-Triigi manor 7.4 km
- Atla Manor 7.9 km
- Aeli Lake 7.9 km
- Kose cemetery 13 km
- Rapla County 29 km
- Järva County 34 km
- Harju County 35 km