Aidu-Liiva campfire site

Located in a young pine forest on the high bank of the old mine filled with blue water. About 800 m from Kohtla-Nõmme Maidla Road, which runs through the quarry, in a young pine forest, on the shore of a water-filled excavation area that resembles a fjord due to its light blue water and high banks.

The Aidu-Liiva campfire site lies in young pine forest on the high bank of the old Aidu oil shale quarry in Ida-Viru County. Mining stopped here in 2012, and when the pumps were switched off, groundwater flooded the pits and the old haul roads. The result is one of Estonia's strangest man-made landscapes: long channels of light blue water between steep stony banks that look almost like a fjord. The Aidu hiking trail begins at the campfire site and follows the shores of the flooded mine. On the way you pass the area of the Estonian Mining Museum in Kohtla-Nõmme.