Sandstone gorges, two castles, third-gear corners under pine.
180 kmHalf day6 stopsA2 out, P8 and P14 backBest late September to October
Leave Riga on the A2 and the city is gone in twenty minutes. From Sigulda the road drops into the Gauja valley — red sandstone cliffs, a cable car strung across the gorge, and a sequence of bends that reward a car with a proper chassis. Turaida is worth the stop for the brick tower alone. Cesis gives you a medieval castle and coffee in the square before the run home through Ligatne's forest tunnels.
