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Kittilä
Travel Blogs from Kittilä, Finland
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Lapland - Arrival
Lapland - an Arctic Adventure - Arrival Exploring the Arctic in winter had always been a dream of ours. Lapland offers just that. A mere 200,000 people live in finnish Lapland (the size of Netherlands and Belgium taken together). Far from the nearest ...
Lapland - Second snow shoeing excursion
Lapland - Second snow shoeing excursion This was a second day at our free disposal. As we could have breakfast at our lodge, we took it easy. The day was overcast. It looked as if it was going to snow. Finally, we once again set out ...
Lapland - Departure home
Lapland - Departure home Our shuttle bus picked us up at 7 a.m. together with a number of other guests. Our flight was to depart Kittila at 10.05 a.m. We got to the airport in only 45 minutes. The airport was pretty boring. Nothing ...
Lapland - Fierce Husky Dog Fight
Lapland - Fierce Husky Dog Fight Once again, we were given the opportunity to take the huskies out for a run. This time the excursion was to be 10 km longer, i.e. 45 km. It was a beautiful and sunny day, blue skies, but rather cold ...
Aurora Borealis
We packed our bags for an earlyish check out and Paul and Bo headed down to pick up a hire car we had booked. It was due to cost us about £100 split 4 ways for a couple of days hire so it was going to work out a lot cheaper than taking public transport ...
Lapland - Snow Shoe Excursion
Lapland - Snow Shoe Excursion A marvelous day with the snow covered landscape glistening in the sun and under blue skies. It was not that cold either. Only -8°C. A simple breakfast (toast, jam, cheese, sausage, yoghurts, tea, juices) was served ...
Lapland - First Husky dog excursion
Lapland - First Husky dog excursion The excursion with the husky dogs was to start at 9.30 a.m. just a hundred yards from our log cabin. We were there on time. Our tour consisted of a trained guide and four guests. Each guest was to receive four ...
Lapland - Cross-country Skiing
Lapland - Cross-country Skiing It had started snowing heavily during the night and by the morning, at least five cms of snow had fallen. The other guests of the lodge decided to go for another husky ride, but we wanted to go skiing ...
Lapland - Shopping in Akaslompolo
... sleds to do their shopping. But cars were an equally common site in front of this supermarket. As the currency was the same in Germany as it was in Finland, at least we had no problem with the money. Even our debit cards were ...
Lapland - Snowmobile Excursion - 50 km
... . The owner of the dogs and dog camp was also the owner of our lodge. An Austrian named Bernhard, and in Finland he was known as Benku. A snowmobile, also known as skidoo, is a powerful motorbike on sled runners that can reach speeds of ...
Lapland - Second Husky Mushing Excursion
Lapland - Second Husky Mushing Excursion At my request, I received only four husky dogs on this trip, one of which was female. The female and one beautiful labrador like male were the front runners setting the pace, while two other ...
Travel via Kittila
Had to stop by another airport on the way back down. Could see the ski resorts all lit up. Also, it was the first time to see the sun again. It actually rose as we kept going further south. ...
Between contracts...
ok, so here goes.. Finished up my last tour for Scenic mid Aug and have since then been playing the waiting game....And have to admit I'm not very good at it.. Been waiting for a yes or no answer in regards to the visa for South Africa and found ...
Santa was nowhere to be seen!!
Awesome scenary!! Just picture postcard stuff. Arrived and first thing wanted to do was a rolly poly in the snow - put head down and disappeared to my shoulders! Even eat Rudolf (don't tell my daughter!) - scrummy actually. Now if ...
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