Summer Solstice in Latvia | Celebrating Midsummer with a local family ☀️ longest day | Jāņi
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2024
- Join me to get a sneak peak into what it's like to spend Midsummer / the summer solstice with a local Latvian family. The longest day of the year is a magical time so sit back and join me on this exclusive look into how Latvians celebrate Midsummer ☺️ .
We dance, sing, eat cheese and drink beer as we watch the sun set on the longest day of the year. The summer solstice is a traditional pagan celebration celebrated on the shortest night in the year, in June and damnnnn it is AMAZING.
Big thanks to Elina and her family for welcoming me in and letting me share this incredible experience with you.
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Title, Welcome to Elinas
01:09 Exploring the grounds
02:23 Collecting wildflowers and making flower crowns
05:04 Inside the summerhouse
06:29 It begins, but what is Midsummer?
08:18 Through the gates to watch the sunset
11:10 The fire is lit
13:54 Local guests
14:08 Watching the sunrise
14:54 More traditions
15:33 Back to the guesthouse & breakfast
17:15 Next time...
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As Latvian... appreciated the video.. so delicate
Ah thank you! That’s great to hear 🥰
Very beautiful and moving video. Thank you for posting! Latvian-American.
Ah thank you so much for your comment, this means so much. I’m glad you enjoyed it 💚
Thanks to CZcams analytics you’ve got yourself a new subscriber 👍🏻
I hope to adventure through the Baltics soon and your video is a huge wealth of information 👍🏻👏🏻✌🏻🤙🏻
Thanks so much and welcome! I’m so happy you found it useful and so glad to have you as a subscriber ☺️! An adventure through the Baltic states sounds awesome!
So Beautiful! 🌻🌻🌻
Thank you! I really enjoyed editing and filming it! Welcome to my channel 🫶🏼😄
This is great! I hope to see you again, sometime in Latvia 🌞🌾
Thanks Mara! It was soooo lovely to meet you. Hopefully we can catch up one day! 😊x
i hope you coming back to Latvia some day-here is a lot more for you to explore 😉
I hope to see much more of Latvia, apparently it has really cool beaches and bog walking which sounds fun!
Wow! Amazing pagan rituals!
Really interesting! 😁
You know Haley, the entire time I was watching this video and the summer solstice ceremonies, I kept thinking back to this video by Latvian folk group Tautumeitas for the song "Raganu Nakts". It has a bit of a Polynesian feel to it, but they are all Latvian! Raganu Nakts is also around the time of the summer solstice (they mention Jani a lot in the song). The video can be found at: czcams.com/video/LsgO5OTUsRU/video.html
Ahh thanks for sharing! I hope you enjoyed 🙌🏽
Summer time travel
It's a pirag!
Ahhhh thank you!!! 😆
Where is the Riga balsams? 🤣
😆😆
Give me the location of this place
No, this is not a public place however there are many places in Latvia you can visit similar to this. 😊
@@Wildeversince thankyou
No problem 😊