A guided hike off the boardwalk into a 10,000-year-old raised bog, older than the Pyramids with a picnic and optional swim at a bog lake. 4 hours from Riga, with golden-hour slots at sunrise & sunset.

Quick question: when you hear the words carbon sink, what comes to mind? Almost everyone says rainforest. The honest answer is that the world’s peat bogs cover only about 3% of the land surface yet store roughly 30% of all soil carbon on the planet — that’s twice as much carbon as is locked in every forest on Earth combined. Latvia is one of a handful of European countries that kept its raised bogs largely intact through the 19th and 20th centuries, while most of the UK, Germany and the Netherlands drained theirs for fuel and farmland. Today, EU peatland-restoration scientists treat Latvia as a working model — come to Ķemeri, see what an intact ten-thousand-year-old bog actually looks like, and learn how to rebuild your own.