{"id":150676,"date":"2025-09-03T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=150676"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:13:40","slug":"aidufest-in-ida-viru-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/aidufest-in-ida-viru-county\/","title":{"rendered":"AiduFest in Ida-Viru County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">A former oil shale quarry has been converted into one of Estonia\u2019s many hidden gems. Aidu, in Ida-Viru County, just around the corner from the towns of Kivi\u00f5li and Kohtla-J\u00e4rve, boasts a two-kilometre long channel that is used for several athletic events each year, and is also home to a seasonally open water centre. The Aidu Water Adventure Centre\u2014Aidu Veeseikluskeskus in Estonian\u2014is hosting the first AiduFest on 6 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">AiduFest will be an absolutely unique location for a festival, simply due to its history and location. The event will start with standup paddleboarding, or SUP, and a boat parade immediately following. There will be competitions on the water, which include hydrocycles, also known as water bicycles, and will be hosted by former Olympic bronze medalist <b>Kaspar Taimsoo<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Musical performances by <b>Susanna Aleksandra<\/b> &amp; Titoks, and Estonian superstar <b>T\u00f5nis M\u00e4gi<\/b> and Estraadiraadio, will be featured during the festival. DJ <b>Mike Sun<\/b> will hit the decks with his retro music programme, and visitors can enjoy a spectacular fire show on the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Naturally there will be loads of food and beverage available on site, and there is a children\u2019s area as well, so AiduFest is an event for the whole family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In addition to AiduFest, visitors are free to explore the entirety of the Aidu quarry. Due to the remnants of industrial mining, there are several artificial hills and other channels of water to explore. If you time it right, you can get absolutely spectacular photos of the sunset. Depending on the weather of course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The full programme is available <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aidu.ee\/aidufest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>, as well as information about how to get there by car or bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A former oil shale quarry has been converted into one of Estonia\u2019s many hidden gems. Aidu, in Ida-Viru County, &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":120460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[283,14404,18780,26012,26013,26014,26015],"class_list":["post-150676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-music","tag-festival","tag-tonis-magi-2","tag-events-in-ida-virumaa","tag-ida-viru-county","tag-aidufest","tag-aidu"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150677,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150676\/revisions\/150677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}