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Värska is famous for its’ mineral water and curative mud. Well-known as the healing- table- and bath water the local mineral water comes from the different layers of ground water. First data on the high concentration of minerals in ground water of Värska was obtained forty years

 
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ago. The first drilled wells were erected in 1967. In Estonia the ground water will be classified as the mineral water, if it contains at least 2 g minerals in a litre of water. In the depth of approximately 600 meters the ground water contains 19 g minerals in a litre of water. Even if the water reserve has been used for 35 years now, the rate of minerals in the local water has not been changed. Among the sedimentary rock layers of bedrock the ground water reserve has been formed and this reserve of bracing healthy healing- and table water will be sufficient for long time.
The curative mud is excavated from the nearby bay of Värska. The mud has been used for healing purposes for 20 years in a health resort, which was built on the bank of the bay. Next to the health resort there are big pools, where the mud is stored around the year. The natural reserve of curative mud is sufficient for long time. Apart from the mud and the mineral water the pine woods rich in ozone have a healing effect.
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Mustoja bulge-like elevations are famous since the beginning of last century, when the interesting botanical founds were first discovered in Setomaa. Since then Setomaa has become an object of different scientific field studies, mostly for botanics. Mustoja valley flat is rich in orchids, sandy region is the home for plants of the steppes, like grass-leaved sandwort, pasqueflower, henand-chicken houseleek, immortelle. Local landscape is also quite

interesting – the largest and the most in relief elevations in the south-eastern Estonia: wind-originated relief forms and sandy regions and ice-formed flatlands between them, Mustoja old valley, moors and heath forests, marshes with bog islands.
5 kilometres south form Värska, between the villages of Lutepää and Saatse, there is theso-called Setomaa Sahara, or Pikamäe Sands, or Long Sands. This is several square-kilometres of quicksand, probably formed once as the result of a massive forest fire. The area is important from botanical point of view – as the home of several plants of the steppes, grass-leaved sandwort, immortelle, pasqueflower and club moss among them.