Day Trips from Tallinn: Helsinki by Ferry, Lahemaa National Park, or Rummu Quarry?

The Problem With Tallinn's Location (And Why It's Actually Brilliant)

You're looking at a map. Tallinn is sitting at the top of Estonia, staring across the Gulf of Finland at Helsinki. To the east, there's dense forest. Forty kilometres west, there's an abandoned Soviet quarry that's now a surreal turquoise lake.

Tallinn is a compact city. You can walk the Old Town in a morning. If you've got a second day, you have three genuinely different options for getting out of the city — and they couldn't be more different from each other.

Here's how to pick the right one.