{"id":5003,"date":"2025-06-23T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:32:38","slug":"day-44-the-beach-that-didnt-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=5003","title":{"rendered":"Day 44 – The Beach That Didn\u2019t Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we realised we\u2019d completely bypassed a singing beach, apparently 15 km behind us. We didn\u2019t want to risk missing something called a singing beach<\/em>, so we turned around and went back. As it turns out, the beach only sings on certain days, and today wasn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beach stretches along the shore of Lake Peipus, a huge lake shared between Estonia and Russia. The sand is super fine, and under the right conditions it apparently hums when you walk on it. It was windy, and the waves were crashing in, so all we heard was the lake doing its best ocean impression. The beach has 30 kms of uninterrupted sandy shore. That is pretty amazing for a lake! We had a quick wander along the beach, then carried on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the day we followed something called the Onion Route. It\u2019s named that because they grow a lot of onions in the area (obviously), but also because of the old-believer villages dotted along the lake. Sounds a bit like something from a cult novel, but the old-believers are actually Russian Orthodox Christians who didn\u2019t go along with church reforms back in the 1600s. The lakeside is lined with colourful wooden cottages, which were neat to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was hoping to try an onion or fish pie, since that\u2019s the local specialty, but no luck. So we stopped at a little shop and got some Russian potato chips instead. They were just normal chips but with a bacon flavour. They were okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing much else happened today. It feels like we\u2019ve seen the main sights now, so we\u2019ll probably head into Latvia tomorrow. Not sure what we\u2019ll do there, but we\u2019re avoiding the cities, so we\u2019ll see what we see on our way to Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonight we found a quiet little forest parking spot to sleep in. It was peaceful, except for one car that drove past around midnight. Otherwise, all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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