Two adventurers making a journey up the western Estonian coast from Pärnu in a traditional dugout canoe are set to arrive in Tallinn Friday afternoon.
Two kayaking enthusiasts, one Dane and one Estonian, are testing a hypothesis that the Scandinavian peoples learned to build dug-out wooden boats from the Finno-Ugric peoples on the eastern shore of the Baltic, using this as a basis for long trade routes, stretching, via rivers, far into Russia, ETV news show 'Aktuaalne kaamera' (AK) reported Monday.