Follow hiking trail to Pakri peninsula and other Paldiski, Estonia Things to Do Tips

There is signed ( blue lines ) hiking trail on the peninsula which takes approx. day to walk

and half a day with bicycle.
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Left to its own devices for more than 30 years, nature was given

the opportunity to grow wild in this area and you can find plant

species here that only grow on Pakri peninsula. The height of the

rocky cliff here is 25 metres; the top layers are Ordovician

limestone, while below them is Cambrian sandstone and shale.

Here the bank rises directly from the sea and its crevices conceal a rare bird belonging to the

penguin family. There is a limestone lighthouse on the bank that was built in 1889.

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The Russian navy searched the whole coastline to find a suitable site, and chose Paldiski as the location of its future port facilities. During Soviet times a naval base and training centre for atomic submarine personnel were situated here. (You can still take a look at the training centre, which is called the ‘Pentagon’ by Estonians.)

PS! I was back in Paldiski 2009 summer and " Pentagom " was demolidhed. Nothing left of it...

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