Almost every Latvian day out leaves from Riga.
Which Old Town walk gets you inside the guild halls. Whether the border run to the Hill of Crosses earns a whole day. What a bog boardwalk at sunrise costs. Every tour that departs Riga, reviewed.
The Riga departures travellers book most.
Every Latvian review →One small capital, one bus station, and a handful of days that sell out before the rest. These are them, priced and rated.
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Riga Old Town walking tour
Explore Riga Old Town on a budget-friendly 1-hour-45-minute walk covering key squares, churches, legends, and useful local tips.
From · $18
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Latvian food tasting tour at Riga Central market
from $44
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2 countries! Hill of Crosses, Rundale Palace and Bauska castle
from $157
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Discover Riga Bike Tour
from $47
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Hill of Crosses & Jelgava Highlights
from $54
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Riga Gun Range: shooting with Winchester, Glock17, & Kalashnikov
from $66
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Best of Riga Walking Tour – Highlights and Hidden Gems
from $154
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Riga Old Town Walking Tour in a Small Group
from $22
The days a Latvia trip gets built around.
A morning in the Old Town, an afternoon among Art Nouveau facades, a bog boardwalk at Ķemeri, castles up the Gauja, and the long run south across the border. Pick the shape of your week.
The Hill of Crosses stands in Lithuania. Riga still runs the best day to it.
The hill sits outside Šiauliai, about four hours south of Riga, and it is the single biggest day trip this city sells. Operators pair it with Rundale Palace and Bauska Castle on the Latvian side, so the drive earns its length. Two more routes carry on to Vilnius, and a pair run north to Tallinn. Bring a passport habit even inside Schengen.
Riga rewards a slow first morning.
The Old Town is small enough to cross in fifteen minutes and dense enough to hold you all day: the Blackheads guild hall, three medieval houses in a row, a cathedral with a rooster on top. Walk it with someone who can tell you which facade is a 1990s rebuild.
Half an hour west of Riga, the ground turns to peat and pine.
The Great Ķemeri Bog boardwalk loops through black pools and stunted pines, and it is at its best before the mist lifts. Jūrmala is the next stop down the line: twenty kilometres of white sand, wooden villas in the trees, and a beach so shallow you can walk out a long way.
- 1Best of Kemeri National Park In One Dayfrom $235
- 2Sunset at Kemeri National Parkfrom $77
- 3Sunrise at Kemeri National park + Jurmalafrom $131
Latvia is cheap for what it gives you.
Every tour on the site sorted by price. A guided morning in Riga costs less than lunch in most European capitals.
Old Town walks, market tastings, bike loops and pub crawls — most of Riga sits here.
- 1Riga Old Town walking tourfrom $18
- 2Latvian food tasting tour at Riga Central marketfrom $44
- 3Discover Riga Bike Tourfrom $47
The full-day runs: the Gauja castles, Ķemeri and Jūrmala, small-group border trips.
Private cars with a driver, husky teams in the snow, and the long two-country days.
Three things Latvia does that nowhere else quite does.
Old towns and forest parks are everywhere in the Baltics. A bitter black liqueur poured since 1752, a street of carved stone faces, and an Olympic bobsleigh track open to the public belong to this country.
Riga Black Balsam
A 45 percent herbal bitter in a squat clay bottle, made in Riga from linden blossom, wormwood, ginger and birch buds. Straight it tastes like medicine, which is roughly how it started. Locals cut it into blackcurrant juice, drop it in coffee, or warm it with honey when the wind comes off the river. Tastings usually pair it with a pub crawl through the Old Town cellars.
- 1Riga Pub Crawl Nightlife Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 46 reviews
- 2Private One Hour Riga Beer Bike Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 30 reviews
- 3Shared Activity Riga Black Balsam 18th Century Degustation★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 9 reviews
The Carved Faces
Riga holds more Art Nouveau than any other city in Europe, roughly a third of its centre, and most of it went up in a fifteen-year building boom before 1914. Alberta iela is the showpiece: Mikhail Eisenstein facades stacked with screaming masks, sphinxes and peacocks. Look up, and keep looking up. The best of it is above the second floor.
- 1Riga Art Nouveau walking tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 27 reviews
- 2Old Town And Art Nouveau Walking Tour Of Riga★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 15 reviews
- 3Small Group Art Nouveau walking tour 2h★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 6 reviews
Sigulda in Winter
The Sigulda bobsleigh track was built for the Soviet team in 1986 and still hosts World Cup racing. Out of season you can ride it in a soft bob with a professional pilot at the front. Sixteen curves, a lot of noise, and it is over in under a minute. Husky teams run in the forest nearby once the snow settles.
- 1Husky Dog Sledding Tour From Riga★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 106 reviews
- 2Ultimate Husky dog sledding experience in Latvia – Private tour from Riga★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 45 reviews
- 3Husky dog sled/bike kart ride in Latvia ~ 3h group tour from Riga★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 30 reviews
Riga does not stay quiet after dark.
Every balsam night out →
Shared Activity Riga Black Balsam 18th Century Degustation
Read our review →Four Latvian days that will not wait for you.
Most of Riga can be booked the night before from a bar on Kaļķu iela. These cannot: they run on daylight, on snow, on a single morning departure, or on a studio that takes two people at a time.
- 012 countries! Hill of Crosses, Rundale Palace and Bauska castleA four-hour drive each way into Lithuania. There is one morning departure, and in winter it does not run every day.
- 02Husky Dog Sledding Tour From RigaThe teams run on snow. The season is short, the sleds are few, and a mild January cancels it outright.
- 03Latvia Bobsleigh and luge track ride experienceThe Sigulda track takes a handful of passengers per session and closes for race weeks.
- 04Glass Jewellery WorkshopStudio sessions run for one or two people at a bench. There is no walk-up slot.
Rain off the Baltic is horizontal. Go indoors and go deeper.
Latvian weather changes inside an hour and the autumn wind comes straight up the Daugava. The answers are all under a roof: a glass studio with a torch running, a market hall the size of five zeppelin hangars, a cellar bar with a bottle of balsam on the counter, an indoor range with ear defenders.
By day out — where it actually takes you
Riga Old Town11 tours
Hill of Crosses & Rundale19 tours
Gauja, Sigulda & Turaida20 tours
Ķemeri & Jūrmala15 tours
Kuldiga4 tours- National Parks13 tours
Art Nouveau Riga7 tours- The whole Latvia list →
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