Sloka Swamp

The Slokas and Vecais swamps together is around 9 square kilometres in size and is found to the North of the village of Kūdra, where the so-called old peat quarries are found.  Peat was extracted here during the first period of Latvian independence.  Today the territory is overgrown, preserving the old and flooded quarries which offer a very unusual landscape.  The best way to examine them is on foot or bike, taking the road from the Kūdra railroad station which leads to Lake Sloka.
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Sloka bog has been severely affected by land reclamation and peat extraction - today only fragmentary features of the high bog are preserved there.
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