Estonia is considered a northeastern European country, and is part of a geographic region known as the Baltic states. It is bordered by Baltic Sea, Russia, and Latvia. This country is one of the smallest nations in Eastern Europe, and is home to just over one- million people. Estonia’s weather is heavily influenced by its proximity to the Baltic Sea. Unlike many other Eastern European countries, Estonia does have four discernible seasons. Fall and spring are mild, but can be characterized by heavy rains. Summer is also quite mild. However, winter can be extreme and prone to heavy snowfall. In fact, many tourist websites extol Estonia's winters is perfect conditions for winter sports such as skiing, sledding, and hockey.

Although Estonia has plenty to do for those who enjoy winter sports, Estonian history also is a major part of Estonia's growing tourist industry. For example, many people who are interested in the Second World War, will find plenty of museums and monuments in this nation, because of its heavy involvement in both the Nazi and Soviet war efforts. The reason for this strange occurrence was that Russia had occupied Estonia following the First World War. Once the German invasion of the Soviet Union began in earnest during the summer of 1941, many Estonian nationalists took up arms against their Soviet occupiers, and welcomed Hitler's armies as liberators. However, due to the racially driven policies of the Nazi party, many Estonians found themselves enslaved by the German. In response to this some Estonians fled to the neighboring nation of Finland fight the communists there, while at the same time many Estonians were forcibly conscripted into the German army.

German forces retreated from Estonia in the autumn of 1944 as Soviet divisions again into the country. From 1944 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, Estonia was under complete and total Soviet domination. However, the newly established nation of Estonia has become an economic powerhouse, because of its close work with the nations of Finland, Sweden, and Germany. Furthermore, Estonia is home to one of the largest deposits of petroleum and natural gas in the Baltic States. Estonia's economic power can be observed in fact that it has joined the ranks of Western European nations in the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and EuroZone.

It is noted that the northernmost of the three Baltic States, Estonia has to this day fared well during the time regaining independence. When in the capital Tallinn you notice right away that people are and have always been doing well especially with his or her hosipitality towards visitors.

For the visitor Estonia offers many good natural parks, several old towns, many remains from the Middle Ages and a lot of Islands just off the coast.

Tallinn is known to be a beautiful medieval old city, comparable to Prague with it's multitude of spires and orange-tiled roftops.

Estonian language is unique from the Indo-European languages; it belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages toghether with Finnish and Hungarian. It is very similar to Finnish, that is spoken just over the Gulf of Finland.