Who are we?
Wanderlust is led by three good friends. We have grown up in the countryside and left to seek fortune in the city. Eventually we grew tired of city life and started looking for our true nature and roots with the help of the wilderness.
Hiking and organizing nature tours has never been a work for us but a fun part of our everyday lives.
Signe Ohakas
Co-founder | nature guide at Wanderlust
Languages: Estonian, English, Finnish, French
I am a second-generation nature guide. In addition to spending time in the wilderness, my hobbies include self-development practices, backpacking trips in Southeast Asia and choir singing. My aim is that our adventure into the wilderness would leave you with a memorable experience and new knowledge. The more you learn about the wonders of nature, the more rewarding being in the wilderness becomes.
I have acquired my education in the field of business management and international relations. I have spent the majority of my professional career abroad working on diplomacy and development cooperation. My desire to be closer to our beautiful and untouched nature brought me back to Estonia. I have studied what is dearest to me – nature tourism in Luua Forestry School.
Phone: +372 5904 7065 | E-mail: [email protected]
Kert Kruusakivi
Co-founder | nature tour guide at Wanderlust
Languages: Estonian, English
The sea is my passion! I will help you discover the islands of Lahemaa by boat. When I am not hiking, I am biking on the curvy roads of South Estonia on my motorcycle or enjoying the wilderness with my partner.
In addition to leading nature tours, I am also engaged in photography, videography and marketing. I have studied in the Estonian Academy of Arts, the University of Tallinn and Tallinn University of Technology. And of course, I must mention my favourite – Luua Forestry School!
Phone: +372 5551 4413 | E-mail: [email protected]
Tiina Klooster
Nature tour guide at Wanderlust
Languages: Estonian, English, Finnish, Russian
I have admired the wilderness and animals since I was a child. I have always struggled with staying still – the soul wants to explore and journey both in the vast world and the inner space. I want to share these journeys of exploration and take you into our beautiful and mysterious wilderness.
I studied linguistics in the University of Tartu. I have studied the languages and cultures of tribal people and travelled in the habitats of Finno-Ugric people. Over the years, I have learned a number of languages. The most important ones – those of birds, mushrooms and friendship – I learned in the field of nature tourism in Luua Forestry School.
E-mail: [email protected]
Fred Taik
Nature tour guide at Wanderlust
Languages: Estonian, English
I spent the majority of my twenties on self-searching in Asia, New Zealand and Iceland. During that time, I understood that the one place where I feel most alive is in the wilderness and hiking trails. After returning home I began my educational journey in Luua Forestry School.
I have previously studied Asian culture and my everyday work comprises organization of cultural events. The more time passes, the more I want to spend my days on bicycle trips, multi-day mountain hikes and on our beautiful bog landscapes.
E-mail: [email protected]
Jaana Ahlberg
Nature tour guide at Wanderlust
Languages: Estonian, English
As a tour guide, my aim is not the mileage. My aim is to help you find peace while hiking and to learn to observe and notice the surrounding world.
One of my major interests is biodiversity in cities and in nature. In Tartu, I promote sustainable living in town gardens and a repair shop called Paranduskelder, and partake in the development of townscape as a landscape architect. If I had unlimited time in my hands, I would roam through every secret place, learn to speak every language in the world and would just study endlessly the ways the living world works.
E-mail: [email protected]
Liisi Preedin
Nature tour guide at Wanderlust
Languages: Estonian, English, German
Probably not a single day passes in my life where hiking does not play a role – be it hiking as an activity, generating new ideas for hikes and preparing hiking routes or simply dreaming of future hikes and remembering the previous ones. The biggest part of my heart belongs to mountains but in my home country I am most fascinated about bog islands, old railway dams and exciting cultural historical places. What I love the most are multi-day and longer exploration hikes as they
enable me to switch off completely from the rest of the world and be in the moment.
In addition to hiking and guiding, I work as a landscape architect in Tartu. In 2020 I graduated from the greatest school in the world – Luua Forestry School – on nature tourism.
E-mail: [email protected]
Sirja Ohakas
Nature tour guide at Wanderlust
Languages: Estonian, English, Russian
Growing up in the countryside I was interested in nature since childhood. Books on plants were my favourite literature during adolescence. In my youth I spent holidays hiking in the wilderness of the “vast homeland” – Soviet Union: Putorana, Kamchatka Peninsula up to South-Kuril islands, sometimes also leading the groups. Later I have backpacked in South-East Asia and India-Nepal. As a volunteer I have organized sports and nature events for children. Now I love to spend time with my grandchildren – expand their horizons, hike together and explain to them the fascinating functioning of nature. I wish to share this enthusiasm also with others.
By education I am an agronomist and work for the Estonian Crop Research Institute. Some years ago I graduated as a nature guide from Luua Forestry School.
E-mail: [email protected]