This five-kilometer "wild" section on the shores of the Gulf of Riga in Lilaste, near the mouth of the Gauja River, is not just a beach, but a place of pilgrimage, contemplation and power, where everyone can create their own fairy-tale world. Shamanistan was found in 2002 and created in its current form by the Riga artist Maxim Zolotukhin.

Maxim began to install in the sand found on the shore driftwood of an outlandish shape, processed by the sea and wind, painting them in a shamanistic style. He was joined by other lovers of the unusual and mystical, soon the sanctuary, called here Urga, stretched along the sea for a couple of hundred meters. This place has become popular among Latvian residents and tourists. At the end of 2015, unknown barbarians destroyed the territory of Shamanistan. A lot of effort went into at least partial restoration of this fabulous and mysterious place.