Pähni Visitor Center

The visitor centre is located at Pähni village amid the great forests of Haanja-Karula recreation area. If you come to Pähni by car, signs direct you here from the Võru-Valga road or, if you come through Rõuge, at the road junction at Krabi village.

Pähni Visitor Centre stands among large forests in the far south of Võru County, close to the Latvian border. It is best known for its forest megaphones – giant wooden horns where you can sit and listen to the sounds of the woods. Inside are a forest museum, a butterfly exhibition and a display on the South Estonian custom of cross-trees, where mourners carved a cross into a tree on the way to the cemetery. Forest fairy tales and films are presented in Võro, the local language. Several study trails start here, and Suur Munamägi, Rõuge's Nightingale Valley, Luhasoo bog and Estonia's southern tip are all within reach.