Learn about the Baltic countries and how to get there

Arabiaweather.com - Ismail Ghasemi - The Baltics are three European countries, with long histories and diverse cultures between regions. It is a wonderful opportunity for a one-on-one tour of the three countries that are so different from each other... Estonia , Latvia, and Lithuania.

The three countries were independent and some of them were part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, then occupied by the Soviet Union and were the first to split from it between 1990 and 1991, and the Kaliningrad region became isolated from the rest of the Russian lands as a result, while the three countries are today members of the European Union.

In addition to the three countries, there is also Kaliningrad Oblast, which is a small region belonging to Russia, located between Lithuania and Poland. If you want to reach it during your tour between these countries, you will need to obtain a Russian visa.

The most famous cities in the region are Daugavpils, Liepaja and Riga (the capital) in Latvia, Tartu and Tallinn (the capital) in Estonia, Kaunas, Klaipeda, and Šiauliai in Lithuania, in addition to its capital and largest city, Vilnius.

Cultural, ethnic and linguistic relations

Despite the similarities between the three countries in history, politics and geography, the culture and languages are different. Latvian and Lithuanian are spoken by the Baltic people, who belong to the Indo-European language family.

As for the Estonian language, it is a non-Indo-European language and belongs to the group of Finno-Baltic peoples, and it is one of the Finno-Ugric languages, as it shares close cultural and historical relations with the Finnish language and culture.

How to get to the area

Riga Airport (Latvia) is the busiest center in the Baltic states, and the main hub for Air Baltic lines that connect it to about 60 other European cities, as well as for Vilnius Airport (Lithuania), while Tallinn Airport (Estonia) is the center of Estonian Airlines.

Qatar Airways, Turkish and major European companies such as Lufthansa, Czech, Finnish, Polish and Norwegian operate flights to all three airports.