Estonia is a fast emerging holiday home destination. Holiday makers now go on family holidays to Estonia and stay in holiday villas and self catering apartments that they can rent direct from their holiday home owners.
Estonia is a beautiful country situated in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. The country is surrounded by Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Russian Federation. The country has a temperate climate with mild winters and summers. It is popular with tourists due to the constant nature of its temperature. The country is situated on the shores of Baltic Sea resulting in the climate being generally humid most of the time. However, the climate in coastal areas and inland regions is slightly different with sudden variations in temperature and climate.
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Estonia is a lowland country situated in North Eastern Europe. It borders on the Baltic Sea, and the gulf of Finland in the north, Latvia to the south and Russia in the east. Estonia has a flat, unharmed landscape with more than one thousand lakes and has over seven thousand rivers and streams. Nearly half of its landscape is covered by woodland and forest.
For someone who enjoys skating or ice fishing, Estonia in the winter can be a great place to visit. Its winters can get very cold, but thanks to the North Atlantic Gulf Stream the summers remain quite mild. The best time to visit Estonia is during the months of May through to September, July usually being the warmest month of the year.
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Estonians are known to be hard-working, neat and patriotic. Most of them are nature lovers, too, which comes as no surprise since Estonia has a wealth of natural gems that make up the best Estonia attractions.
Lahemaa National Park – Considered one of the most popular natural attractions in Estonia, the Lahemaa National Park is the country’s largest national park, covering an area of more than 70,000 hectares. Aside from hiking, the park also offers opportunities for cycling, skiing and camping, so tourists can actively explore its amazing diversity of plant and wildlife while admiring the scenic views.
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Estonia’s reputation is growing within the property investment market. Rising far above her new European neighbours in terms of infrastructure and growth, Estonia is fast becoming the Baltic’s very own ‘Tiger’ economy with a healthy growth rate of 5.5% in 2004. In fact, all the economic indicators are looking very positive with employment growing steadily last year in construction, transport and communications, areas that suggest a growing emphasis on attracting inward investment and a strong property development market.
All these factors have contributed to Estonia being ranked 28th in the IMD’s “World Competitiveness Yearbook” of 2004 and 6th place in the Heritage Foundation’s “Index of Economic Freedom” of 2004. The rankings are a further affirmation of Estonia’s positive economic development, which stands in contrast to many European states, which are now experiencing economic slowdowns.
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