Meet Your Guides to Get Lost
We guide you on paths that don’t always make it onto the map.
Who we are?
Present Sense guided experiences are created and hosted by local architects, designers, historians and nature lovers for visitors who would like to connect with the living intelligence of nature, unique historic places and human connection through a mindful, slower and more immersive way of travelling.
Our team shares a passion for local landscapes, architecture, hospitality, creative mindfulness and Estonia’s nature and culture. Our Slow Tours are designed as a flow through place — from historic streets, hidden architectural details and local stories to forest paths, bog water, sauna traditions, creative reflection and quiet natural landscapes.
We invite you to immerse yourself gently in the places we visit: to slow down, notice more, listen to the surroundings and experience Estonia with a quiet mind, gentle care, curiosity and presence — as locals do.
We share the places we would choose for our friends and families: calm beaches, seasonal blueberry forests, honest local food, meaningful landscapes and saunas with the right heat, steam and atmosphere.
Present Sense offers classic, historic, nature-based and mindfulness-infused tours in and around Tallinn, including Lahemaa day trips, private Slow Tours with sauna and tailor-made experiences on request.
Mission
Our mission is to invent new, exciting and interesting tours, modify old, traditional ones and keep them all in constant change, so that we won't get bored of them ourselves. We take your special interests and needs into account, creating a brand new tailor-made tour.
How It Works
You want to hike more? Sure, we can walk the whole day. Want to cruise around and make stops when you see something interesting on the way? No problem, driving around and showing our city is a pleasure for us!
We hope to meet you not just as another customer, but as a new, interesting acquaintance. Someone with their own story to tell and experiences from previous trips to share, so that at the end of the day we both leave wiser and emotionally richer!
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About Marju
"I bring Estonia’s history to life — beauty, trouble, legends and all the human stories in between."
Marju is an adventurer, a history nerd, a film buff, a poet and an accordionist. She loves to travel so much that even when she’s home, she prefers to spend as much time as possible with other travellers from fascinating faraway places and contribute to Marju’s own world exploration fund. As a traveller, she seeks authentic experiences and is very keen to offer the same in return to those who, against all odds, have set foot on these cold northern shores. On Marju's tours you can expect to travel back in time and hear stories about our ancient elders, Hanseatic Reval, decadent dandies, and everything and everyone in between. If there’s time, you can also ask to hear legends about the beautiful and the damned, the divine and the depraved, the corrupted and courageous, or perhaps even the virtuous and the righteous.
Meet Your Guides
About George
"Join me where the nature of architecture meets the architecture of nature — a day for yourself, away from digital noise and closer to natural wisdom."
George’s story began in the Carpathian Basin, where his studies in life sciences led him north—through Estonia and Norway. A thirst for knowledge and a deep passion for wild forests and fresh, cold air eventually helped him find a true sense of home.Now based in Estonia, George is a local guide with over 10 years of experience as an architect, landscape architect, and traveling coach. Trained by renowned facilitators like Iwan Brioc and Wim Hof, he blends practical design insight with somatic awareness, breathwork, and nature-based mindfulness. His signature getaway trips offer an immersive escape from the everyday.George offers a variety of experiences—from uncovering hidden architectural gems and sharing cool local stories to guiding mindful hikes along pine-forested coastlines, often ending around a warm fire. Each journey is crafted with care, inviting you to share, to grow, to power up and slow down—all while reconnecting with the raw beauty of Estonia’s landscapes.For those feeling adventurous, optional sauna sessions and ice swims provide a powerful reset for both body and mind.
About Mauri
"Mauri, Say Somethin Cool about sg."
Mauri is a writer, a safety coach, and a lifelong Tallinner who has travelled enough to know that his hometown is one of the coolest places in the world. Like most Present Senseians, he is a true nature lover. He spends his time hiking, looking for isolated, secluded places to gather his thoughts. He enjoys cooking meals on a campfire and falling asleep in his sleeping bag on the mossy ground, under a clear, star-covered sky. His lifelong experience working with people has naturally led him to tour guiding. His passion is not just taking people to interesting and beautiful places, but also sharing his own experiences through a wealth of stories. His tours are a mix of history, art, literature, and food, seasoned with survival skills for rough terrain and stories from his unique hobbies, such as forging metal in a smithy, ice swimming after a hot sauna, or playing snooker in a private club.
About Kristian
"I like Estonia best by the sea, around a table, or in a conversation that takes the scenic route."
I’m a designer by trade, running my own studio in Tallinn, a city I love, though I escape it whenever I can. I’ve spent most of my life in Estonia, raising two great kids and wandering around the world enough to know that, in the end, there’s no place quite like home. I’m happiest close to nature, especially on the islands, where life moves slower and the sea feels like an old friend. I’ve done some sailing, and let’s just say the pull of the wind and the waves is something I can’t quite resist. I love hiking through forests, making fires, camping under the stars… that simple kind of peace. But I’m not only about pine trees and silence. I enjoy the city buzz too: talk food and drinks, weird little bars, art, music, culture, historical places and long talks with people who see the world differently. That mix of nature and culture keeps life interesting. I’ve seen Estonia change a lot, from the late Soviet years to the wild 90s and the rise of our digital era. I’ve met all kinds of people, worked a few strange jobs, and collected more than a few stories along the way. So, if we travel together, I promise there’ll be good conversation and maybe a laugh or two. I’d say I’m friendly, social, and easy to be around. I like to think I have a good sense of humor and enough intuition to know when to chat and when to just enjoy the view in silence. So, if you’re up for a trip that’s relaxed, fun, a little curious, and full of good company — I think we’d get along just fine.