2012 is the year of tourism and wetlands for Ramsar. The Ramsar Convention Secretariat and UNWTO are working on a publication that highlights the considerable value of wetlands for tourism and the economic benefits that tourism can bring for the management of wetland sites that will be launched at COP11 in July 2012. For this Read More …
Society of Soomaa Friends organize traditional competition of reapers – Scythe Man of Soomaa. The aim of the competition is to keep old traditions alive. The points to reapers are given for the quality of the scything; bonus points are given for traditional clothes and for saiving rare plants. More information www.soomaa.net View Kaabaka saun Read More …
Here is an Aspen tree that we cut today for a boat building. Dugout canoes made of bi9g aspen logs are tradional boats for villages of Soomaa. We are going to build on this summer in Karuskose.