One of the most popular forms of tourism is to go on a road trip in your own car. Travelling by car offers many advantages – the feeling of freedom and the opportunity to experience destinations off the beaten track. At the same time, you can choose your travel companions and what things you would like to take with you.
Planning challenges
Regardless the duration and length of the trip ahead, the biggest challenge is to plan the route. One way is to follow your nose, but with this approach, it may turn out that you spend a lot of time on the road, but do not get to see places that are worth visiting and are interesting. Another way is to plan your route carefully, researching places of interest, using the internet or suggestions from others, but you can easily spend countless hours planning your trip this way, and still you might end up disappointed.
Hidden gems
But there is also a great alternative – Self Drive Latvia! It is an opportunity to use the routes developed and tested by experienced car tourists, off-road driving enthusiasts and experts. Some might argue that they do not mind spending time on planning their trip, but judging from experience, if you want to see more, find places that are unique and something that traditional tourist guides do not include, this sort of information can be difficult to find even in the endless expanses of the Internet.
Roads off the beaten track
However, Self Drive Latvia is not just about sights and places of interest. There are a lot of small country and forest roads in Latvia and there are many ways you can get from point A to point B. Quite often the driving experience itself as well as what you see along the road can provide a greater sense of satisfaction and adventure than the destination itself. Road maps or even navigation apps will not guarantee that you do not get lost or go off the route. You might even have to discover that the road ends where it is not supposed to, or it could be that your map or application you use, might not show a road that exists.
“Self Drive Latvia” routes
Imagine the situation – it is a weekend or a day off, you have your car and a desire to do something adventurous, but you have no idea where to go. What would you say about a cheat sheet – a ready-made route complete with description of places of interest and a GPS route track? The “Self-Drive Latvia” team during its many years of creating auto tourism routes and off-road driving, searching for unique places of interest and beautiful sights, has now developed these special routes that include everything we think is worth seeing and, often, unknown to the general public: incredible landscapes, different kind of places of interest (manors and castles, churches, abandoned military bases and industrial buildings of the past) and exciting roads in rural areas of Latvia! All routes and places of interest included in our routes are designed to make every trip an adventure for you. Explore, find, climb, enjoy, have fun, experience – these are the keywords for Self-Drive Latvia routes, and people who have tried them, have appreciated the adventures we have prepared!
What is the process?
The main advantage of the routes we have developed is the ease of use – download the purchased route file, open it, using the application available and understandable to you, place your smartphone or tablet on the front panel of the car and follow the line shown on the screen! In addition to the route line or track, there are pins that mark various places of interest – choose what you like, adjust the route to your interests and time you have! If you could not complete the route for some reason and did not manage to see everything – come back and continue where you left off another time!
If you have decided to go ahead and give it a try, all you have to do – choose the route you are interested in, read the terms of service, pay for the chosen route, finally download the route on your smart device and off you go! Adventures await!
You will be surprised what Latvia has to offer!