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Latvia is one of the Baltic countries with the territory 63700 km2 and about 2.4 million population.
About 1 million residents live in the capital city - Riga. A detailed map of Riga is available here.
HOW TO GET HERE
Take a tram number "7" or "9" from the city center in the direction of the trade center "Dole". It takes about 20-30 minutes to arrive to the tram stop "Kengaraga": go out and follow the Kengaraga street in the direction of the Daugava river bank. In 5 minutes of walk, you will arrive to the river bank and find Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) building (Kengaraga 8) at the right.
You can get a position of the Institute in Riga from these two maps: general map and detailed map.
A detailed map of Riga with the street search engine is available here.
ACCOMODATION
You can book in one of many hotels available in Riga from the following web sites (the order is arbitrary):
Riga-Hotels
Hotels in Latvia (cheap)
Riga-Latvija
Hotels
Select-Latvia
GtaHotels
Hostels in Latvia (cheap)
PHOTOS OF RIGA