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TheaIren Says: Fishing is the main activity for local people. Tondisaar is one of their favourite spots.They say that perch can be easily catched close to island. There is also a hut and firecamp place in the island.
TheaIren Says: Perfect place for bird watchers. Birds you may see in the island are common tern ( Sterna hirundo ),black-headed ( Larus ridibundus ), herring ( Larus argentatus ) gulls and seamew ( Larus canus ).Also mallards ( Anas platyrhynchos ), shovelers ( Anas clypeata ), goosanders...
TheaIren Says: As Lake Võrtsjärv is not very deep, it get's good icecover quite quickly and thereforyou can walk to island over the ice during winter.Or if you have a smaller car you can drive with car in there.I started my walk in there from Rannu village where is a little port. Read more...
From where the island name came from ?
TheaIren Says: Archeologist think that Tondisaar was used as a sacred island and sacred grove by ancient estonians. There are legends about choped down tree spirits and they believed that spirits driven out from sacred places gathered in that island alltogether with evil spirits. In the...
TheaIren Says: As Tondisaar is located in the middle of Lake Võrtsjärv I think it is proper to write something about this second biggest lake in Estonia. The biggest is ofcourse Lake Peipsi but as half of it belongs to Russia, then we can say that our own biggest lake is Lake Võrtsjärv....
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As Tondisaar is located in the middle of Lake Võrtsjärv I think it is proper to write something about this second biggest lake in Estonia. The biggest is...
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Tondisaar - island in the middle of Lake Võrtsjärv
Tondisaar has quite intriguing name - Ghost island. Where did it come from ? Most of Estonian places are connected with some myth and legends...And there sure is one for Tondisaar as well. You can...
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