Latvia Roadtrip 2016 - Episode 5
10 days. One country. One car. Two friends. 1830km of exploring the beautiful country of Latvia.
Episode 5: Kuldiga - Ventspils - Grobina
Music disclaimer - Freedom Fry - Shaky Ground (Danielle remix)
LATVIA + DENMARK 2017 | GoPro Travel Video
Latvia 2017 - Travel Video
This summer I spent three months in my family's home country of Latvia with some of my best friends. I wanted to start making travel videos, and thought what better way than to start in Latvia! Here I was able to experience so many new things and meet some wonderful new people. You will also see clips from my 25 hour layover in Copenhagen.
This video was filmed with a GoPro Hero 5 Black in 1080p and a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone in 4K.
Big thanks to my dear friend and drone operator Edgars Korsaks-Mills and Vibe Art Productions for helping me make my visions come to life! Be sure to give them a like on Facebook!
Song Credits: Galantis - Runaway (U & I) [Yacht Club Remix]
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Courland ''Kurzeme'' Region Monuments
Welcome to Courland Kurzeme Region Sights
Through these many pages and photographs, TheCeļotājs will take you on a excursion of some of the many sights Courland Regions has to offer.
Scattered through out Latvia and Courland Region we can find and will see monuments and memorials of different shapes and styles dedicated to events of the past. While traveling through out Courland Region we will see monuments and memorials dedicated to Virga parish -- Commemorative Stone of the Repressed People of Virga parish, that in 1941 and 1949 Virga parish people were Deportation to Siberia, Durbes parish -- Memorial for Deported Persons and Persons who fought against Soviets, Kalni, Nigrande parish -- Memorial Ensemble to The Deported People krusta ceļš Way of the Cross, Skrunda parish -- Memorial Carriage and Exhibit to the 1941 and 1941 Deportations, Jūrkalne parish -- Monument in Remembrance of 58 people of Jurkalne who were killed, died, and are missing in Revolution of 1905, World War I and Latvian Freedom Fights, Aizpute parish -- Monument to the 1905 Russian Revolution, Monument to the Latvian Legion, Grobiņas parish -- Monument proclaiming that At this point, the 1907 August 17 Revolutionary Ernesta Rolavs was shot dead, Durbes parish Town Monuments, ĀDOLFS VALTERS Latvian Freedom Fighter and Second Members of the Saeima, Monument to Arvidam Manfeildam who drained 100000 Hectors of land.
Latvia Riga Baltic State Scandinavia, Viking, East Europe, Cute Girls playing music
Baltic state Latvia capital Riga is one of the most beautiful city in the baltic states. It has the charm of Soviet Union Era as well as modern Latvia.
Latvia Riga Baltic State Scandinavia, Viking, East Europe, Cute Girls playing music. The real vikings. Who are the real vikings? Norway are the real vikings, Swedes are the real vikings, danish are the real vikings, iceland are the real vikigns, Finns are the true real vikings.
Šķēde Dunes -- Site of the 1941 Mass Murders and its Memorials.wmv
Come join Liepāja Tours and TheCeļotājs visit to Šķēde dunes which is the largest areas of mass murder sites in Liepāja that took place between 1941--1942, located 15 kilometer north of the City of Liepāja and about a kilometer from the roadway leading to the Šķēde dunes and located along the Baltic Sea shore line.
As we arrive in the parking lot and the path that leads to the mass killing fields and the Šķēde dunes memorials as we start up the path leading to the area and located along the path leading to the Šķēde dunes is a small memorial plaque dedicated to the some 3000 plus anti-Nazi non-Jews of the total people who where murdered here also. Moving up the path we will come to the Jewish Memorial, which is in the shape if a Jewish Hanukkah.The total number of people who were murdered at this location differs from one account to another. Located north of the Jewish Memorial is the Russian Memorial. Starting at the south end of the woods, as you look from the memorials is the start of the mass murder trench lines and continual through the woods to north of the woods along the dunes. The grassy area just in front of the Jewish Memorial is the area that the Jews that were to shot were held before being taken to the trench lines to be shot.
In contrast to most other Holocaust murders in Latvia, the killings at Liepāja were done in open places. About 5,000 of the 5,700 Jews trapped in Liepāja were shot, most of them in 1941. The killings occurred at a variety of places within and outside of the city, including Rainis Park in the city center, and areas near the harbor, the Olympic Stadium, and the lighthouse. The largest massacre, of 2731 Jews, and 23 communists, happened from 15th to the 17th of December 1941, in the dunes near Šķēde, on an old Latvian army training ground. More is known about the killing of the Jews of Liepāja than in any other city in Latvia except for Riga.
The murders in the dunes at Šķēde on the Baltic shore began as early as July 1941. Some 200 Jews were murdered there. During a three-day massacre on 15-17 December 1941, German and Latvian units killed 2,749 Jews, more than half of Liepāja's Jewish population. Preparations for the operation began some days before. On 13 December 1941, Liepāja Police Chief Obersturmbannfuehrer Fritz Diedrich placed an announcement in the Latvian newspaper Kurzemes Vards stating that Jews were forbidden to leave their living quarters on Monday, 15 December and Tuesday, 16 December 1941.
The German SD in 1943 poured chlorine over the corpses.
Lake Liepāja.wmv
Come join Liepāja Tours and TheCeļotājs visit to Lake Liepāja located east of Old Town Centre.
Lake Liepāja Latvian: Liepājas ezers the fifth-largest lake in Latvia, located near Liepāja in Liepāja district. Total area of the lake - 37,15 km2, length 16.2 km, average depth 2.0 m, coastal line length 44.6 km.
Lake Liepāja is a pod-shaped shallow eutrophic coastal lake with extensive areas of emergent vegetation Phragmites, Typha, Scirpus, Sparganium, surrounded by seasonally flooded meadows and arable land. Polders and dams enclose most of the wetland area. In the lake are found 14 species of fish pike, roach, perch, bream, crucian carp, tench, eel, vimba, burbot, carp, zander, smelt, bitterling and rudd. In May only licensed fishing is allowed. Price of license is 10 LVL about $20. From 1977 till 1999 the lake was an ornithological preserve with 2 species of birds - swans and ducks. Since 2004 the lake is included in the European Union protected territories list Natura 2000. In 2008 the nature protection plan of Liepāja Lake was developed by Grontmij Carl Bro Company.
Islands
Lake Liepāja has 13 islands, most notable from which are Atteku(-as), Zirgu, Pērkona, Putnu (kalva) and Cionas island. On the east bank of the lake is located Friča grove, on the west bank near Pērkone is located Reiņu forest (Latvian: Reiņu mežs).
History
Historically the Lake Liepāja was connected with Lake Tosmare by the Vernen brook, but in the 20th century the brook was filled up. Later in the 20th century the Fortress Canal Latvian: Cietokšņa kanāls, Melnupīte, Russian: Чёрная речка, which connects the lake to the Lake Tosmare and the sea was dug up. In the second half of the 20th century the plant Liepājas Metalurgs built so called Golodov's Dam to separate the polluted part of the lake from the rest of the lake.
MotherNature. X-Civilisation
Producer: Latvia's State Forest
Director: MotherNature
Cast: Forest animals
Sound producer: Natures Stereo
Garment design: MotherNature
Courland ''Kurzeme'' Region Sights
Welcome to Courland Kurzeme Region Sights
Through these many pages and photographs, TheCeļotājs will take you on a excursion of some of the many sights Courland Regions has to offer.
As we journey through Courland Region, we will visit Blīdenes parish Cemetery which is a small cemetery located in the countryside. Not far from the cemetery is the Pilsblīdene Manor Ruins and Pilsblīdene Tower Ruins. The manor is located out in the countryside just off a gravel road like the Tower Ruins, which is just down the road. Located deep in the woods of Ods, Bārtas parish out in the middle of countryside of Neptūns, Ķīburi, Bartas parish, Grobiņa County, and down a path is the Vile Bridge Ruins that once was used to cross the Bārta River. As we are driving back from the Lībciems Former Soviet Union Missile Base, we will stop at the ruins of the former Hydroelectric Power Station located next to the Rīva River in Rīva Labrags parish. That this location the Rīva River was dammed and the water was channeled through the former power building. Today there is very little left that resembles a Hydroelectric Power Station. Also located at this spot is the Wooden Bridge over the Rīva River that leads back into the woods and a camp grounds. While out in the countryside and on a gravel road, we watched as the road was being graded. We will even see a farmer harvesting his grain crop, while other farmers have bailed their hay in to large round bails waiting to be loaded and taken to a place for storage until needed. Located in the same area, we can see a small power windmill farm and its power substation. After passing the Virga parish Mill Wall Ruins -- ANNO 1892 -- located along Route P106, in Lauksargi, Virga, parish, many different times, we finally took the time to stop and explore the ruins. It was actually designed on the windmill style as could be found in the Netherlands.