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HOST DAY

Activities in Riga

Friday, 7 June, 15:00 – 20:00

Sense the past at the Riga Motor Museum where you can view the largest and most diverse vintage motor vehicle collection in the Baltics, exhibiting more than 100 unique automobiles and motorcycles. The Museum was finalist in The Historic Motoring Awards 2018 in the category Museum of the Year.

Want to explore the beer brewing process? Want to taste exquisite beer varieties?

Aldaris Beer Museum is the most up-to date museum of beer in the Baltic and the very first one in Latvia. The museum offers to discover the diversity and charm of beers brewed in Latvia and elsewhere, the secrets of brewing, and also to try your hand at brewing. Give it a try – enjoy beer-tasting process of marvelous beer varieties offered by a beer sommelier and become acquainted with a diversity of taste. Finish evening with a special barbecue dinner.

Get to Know Latvia

Saturday, 8 June, 10:00 – 15:00

Experience a unique flight in a vertical wind tunnel – Aerodium in the town of Sigulda. A tunnel creates a wind stream in which you can fly like a bird, even without wings. An innovation and technology sample performed during Turin Olympic games 2006 and Shanghai Expo 2010

Most courageous Delegates and guests can have the opportunity to participate in a recreational run with a bobsleigh sled on wheels at Sigulda Bobsleigh and Luge Track that is an international-class combined track. During the run you can enjoy the speed and feel the adrenaline rising as the sled passes through 13 turns. Sigulda Track candidates together with Sweden for hosting the Winter Olympic games 2026.

Enjoy a remarkable journey in the Soviet time secret facility with a cover name “Vacation Hotel”. In the territory of the town Ligatne, 9 m underground, there is a well-equipped facility with a total area of 2,000 sq., whose secrecy grading was removed only in 2003. The Bunker was built for the needs of Communist political and state authority elite of the 1980s for the government administration in case of a nuclear war.

Lunch will close your day with up-scale cooking at the “Landlord’s Barn” (Kungu Rija) where the cuisine has certain eclecticism because they try to unite the Latvian traditions with other impressions from the world.