Tartu is a pretty town with a friendly atmosphere and a multitude of diverse establishments in which young travelers together with parents will be able to have fun and learn a lot of new things. Especially emotional and rich in pleasant impressions will be a trip to this Estonian city, tightened by more than one. The fact is that in Tartu there are quite a lot of interesting corners and places with which it is certainly worth introducing inquisitive children. Even such a banal and boring at first glance on the museums in this city turns into an exciting adventure for all participants in the trip regardless of age.
Tartu Museum of toys - Place with close and familiar with the environment, and at the same time the possibility for parents to return to the excellent course of childhood. These exhibits are dolls and toys that have the opportunity to play children over the past one and a half centuries. All of them are divided depending on the purpose and posted in different halls of the museum. As a result, there is a branch of soft toys and doll houses, a hall of peasant toys and a zone of desktop and paper games. Visitors of old age are usually longer delayed in the hall of ancient toys and near the exhibits of Soviet times. But young visitors are more attracting a game room where you can arrange a puppet tea, to pour and ride on a toy car. Recently Chadam is invited to participate in the theatrical view or try out costumes of different fabulous heroes. For boys in the game room there is a lot of educational toys and a large layout of the ship, and still wooden horses and cars.
Here, children can linger for several hours and the only thing that we manage to put out from this zone are a hike in a puppet theater, which occupies the second part of the museum. In this half, tourists are invited to get acquainted with toys from different performances, try themselves as a member of the theater of shadows or a doll.
The kids will be interested to learn the secrets of filming their favorite cartoons and touch the heroes from the TV. Make it all will work out in the courtyard of the museum. And in the warm period in this inner courtyard, plus you can still play the sandbox and splash in a wooden barrel with water.
By the way, all sorts of master classes are arranged in the museum from time to time, during which children are taught to create the simplest musical instruments and mobile toys. Such classes in the game form last about an hour and cost only 2 euros. And they are held not only on Estonian, but also in Russian.
- Finding the Museum of Toys Tourists will be able to be in the center of the Old Town on Lutsu Street, 8. It occupies an old wooden house, emitted striking. To visit the territory of childhood will turn out from 11:00 to 18:00 in any day from the Wednesday on Sunday. An adult ticket to the museum will cost tourists in 5 euros, for the smallests will have to pay 0.50 euros (1-3 years), and for older children and grandparents will get acquainted with toys in 4 euros. True, you can save a little money by buying a family ticket for 13 euros. It makes it possible to visit the Tartu Museum of Toys with the whole family.
Rope Park Adventure - Perfect entertainment for adolescents and amateurs of outdoor activities. It is located in a picturesque area near Lake Raady. There are about 50 all kinds of attractions, including rope crossings, pirated networks and riding riding on single bicycles.
Entertainment in the park is divided into zones, each of which is oriented to a certain age of visitors. For the smallest vacationers, children's park works with two secure routes. Here, the karapubuz can not only climb on the networks and overcome obstacles stretched among trees at low height, but also practice in the management of a toy excavator and tractor. But older children and parents are invited to test themselves on courage in an extreme zone. It is there that four highways of varying degrees of complexity stretched. It is possible to start with obstacles for beginners and as the excretion of excitement to get to the greatest heights with the most breathtaking obstacles. For the final charge of energy, matured tourists can ride on a single or ordinary bike on the rope between the trees or make a 300-meter descent on the tarzanque. For more restrained visitors and tourists with young children in the park, electric cars and rental of segways are operating, and an adventure room with a wall for climbing and a small bar of obstacles is opened.
Hanging children can be fed right on the territory of the park. A cozy cafe is working here, which serves soup with meatballs, meat balls with a side dish and froth potatoes. If the child is not very hungry, you can pamper it with a milk cocktail (2.50 euros) with a bun (1.50 euros) or a portion of ice cream (3 euros).
By the way, the rope park is open for visiting all year round. With the onset of the cold, it is successfully transformed into the winter entertainment center, which gives the opportunity to go skating, make a descent from a snow-covered slide on a snowoutube and take fate in the game hockey.
- To get to the rope fleet of adventure to tourists will not be difficult. It is a 15-minute walk from the city center in the north direction to Narva Road 126D. You can visit it on any day from 10:00 to 20:00. The cost of attractions in this place starts from 4 euros (children's trail) to 19 euros for the passage of four tracks and tarzanka riding adults. Five-minute rental rental will cost tourists in 5 euros and the same amount will have to give for the rental of electric vehicle.
As for baby food, there are many good cafes in Tartu, taking into account the requests and needs of children. Most of them serves dishes of various kitchens of the world, and the food is preparing for the smallest. One of these places is the Vilde's Health cafe, located on Vallikraavi, 4. Here you can easily be ordered lunch or dinner from the children's menu. Portion of puree with cutlet and fresh vegetables will cost 4.50 euros. At the same time, it will be framed in such a way that the child wants to eat all the contents of the plate. For dessert, a child can offer ice cream, a piece of cake or a cocktail with a blueberry, strawberry or mango.
And while parents will eat their part of lunch / dinner, the young tourist can play or draw in the children's zone.