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Kiruna Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kiruna, Sweden
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Ice Hotel - more photos
This is a top pick! To view larger versions, click the Slideshow links below. cheers! Old Rossian Proverb If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes. Sign on pub ...
Ice Hotel - Nice 'n' icey
This is a top pick! ... search for the truth. "Walking is the proof of my existence. I walk to stare into my life." Olof and I returned to Stockholm from Kiruna with the Walkman in our compartment. He's drinks like a fish and is en route to Amsterdam to pick up some pot. He has ...
ARCTIC EXCURSION
This is a top pick! ... -of-snow moutnains ran across the vast territory of landscape within vision. To the west hulked 6,700-ft.-tall Mt. Kebenakaisse, Sweden's tallest mountain, and its neighbors. A suffocating load of snow had been dumped on the wide, black mountains who ...
Lapland
... there; antennae installed in the mine enable the staff to use their mobiles in most tunnels. 200km north of the Cirle lies Kiruna, Sweden's last city. It's on a hill directly overlooking a gigantic open mine; a colossal iron ore vein hits the surface ...
Kiruna
Não ha muito para dizer desta cidade, apenas que é uma cidade mineira e bastante cinzenta, tambem devido ao dia de chuva e frio que estava. Serviu apenas para descansar o possivel depois de um dia inteiro debaixo de chuva, desde Estocolmo. ...
Land of the Midnight Sun
Finally I have found a computer that doesn't shut down. We have just returned from northern Sweden and the seeing the Midnight sun. We had a great trip but the mygg (mosquito) were huge and always in your face - many bites to prove it! ...
Let it snow
... daily. We knew it was going to be impossible to find a grocery shop in Björkliden so we wanted to get groceries in Kiruna before boarding our train. Boukje had printed a route to the nearest grocery shop called ICA, but it was still hard to guess ...
67° 51' N / 20° 13' E
... is was -20, it was very scary getting off the plane but it turned out to only be about -16! we caught the bus into kiruna town centre, the bus couldn't go all the way because there was too much snow. we eventually found our hostel, dumped our bags and ...
-2C is warm!
... through the snow XD. Along the way I found out: just how numb my fingers could feel without falling off, animals in Kiruna have crazy weird footprints, the cross country skiing path is awesome for walking on (just don't tell anyone =P) and that my ...
Camping Due North, Day 12 and 13
... in Kiruna and found out that everything we wanted to see was closed on the Sundays. Except a church in Kiruna which was the most beautiful building in Sweden in 2001. We also took a hike in Kiruna along what was suppose to be a well signed track called ...
Ice Hotel!!!!
... & have to relocate/rebuild the whole town but the church has a preservation order on it as it's some cool Swedish design so they physically have to move it, sounds interesting. All in all a great ole trip. (P.S. Sweden has same smoking ban as ...
Arctic adventure
... other travellers ventured along the Kungsleden, or King´s Trail, a fantastic trail through the pristine wilderness near Kiruna in northern Sweden. Each day we traveled for 30-40kms, a testiment to the incredible endurance of the dogs and more ...
Lapland - Ice hotel, dog sledging &Northern lights
Had an amazing day today, went to see there fanous ice hotel in the day, which has a constant tempertaure of -5 degrees inside the rooms where you sleep and can drop as low as -8 when the outside temperature falls below -30. All of the ice is ...
Kiruna 23.7 - 26.7 & 14.8 - 17.8 2009
... reindeer. Of special interest is Jukkasjarvi Church, decorated by famous Swedish artist. Lapland's main settlement is Kiruna, featuring world's largest underground mine (iron ore). Most of all, Kiruna is the last outpost before ...
Kiruna - pod górę i w górę:)
Z ambitnych planów wejścia na szczyt Kebnekaise - nici!!! Na miejscu dowiedzieliśmy się, że potrzebowalibyśmy do tego 4 dni. Skończyło się wiec spacerkiem wzdłuż szlaku i reniburgerami w Lappdonaldsie ...
Survived the Arctic Circle
Sat I flew up to the town of Kiruna, north of the Arctic Circle. I wasn't sure I could survive the cold, but I'm happy to say I managed not to turn into a popsicle and am safely back in Stockholm (where all the snow has melted away already). It snowed ...
White Winter Wonderland
... . We arrived in Kiruna just after 2pm to the snow covered town. We were not picking up the car till 4pm, so we walked around Kiruna, checking out the local church. After picking up our funky red car, Mark navigates and drives on the icy road, as I am ...
Ice Hotel
... be transferred to your next flight - they won't!! We nearly missed our flight because of this!! But it all worked out and we arrived in Kiruna safe and sound. Kiruna is above the arctic circle, and we had a very exciting landing on snow!! It was ...
Northern lights
You get woken up with hot Lingonberry juice in the morning, which isn't too bad when you have hangovers like ours. Had to rush to get ready for our tours (all bags are kept in lockers in a luggage room overnight - they would freeze in the room, so it ...
Getting to the lap of Lapland. Caroline
... amazingly cheap Premier Inn sits just outside Gatwick so we got to book in for the flight with no queues . We flew to Kiruna in North Sweden via Humberside airport to pick up more passengers . It was a shock to the system on arriving into bitterly cold ...
A night in the Ice Hotel
I am on the 2-carriage train from Narvik to Kiruna and have become friendly with 3 students studying in Sweden - a German girl and boy, and a Chinese Australian called Jason. They tell me about a place called Abisko that's on the way and I decide to get ...
Primo campeggio
... a destra di un campeggio chiamato "Piilijärvi". Ci vado mi piace e decido che ritorno qui per la tappa dopo la visita a Kiruna. C'è una signora che non parla Inglese ma telefona a qualcuno che traduce, insomma alla fine mi danno un semplice ma carino ...
Dimenticavo le risposte per Carlo
... Carlo è gran commentatore mA è giustamente esigente :-) Quindi: * che cavolo sono tutti quei radar disseminati sul suolo R: A Kiruna c'è una base spaziale dell'ESA e una stazione meteo con radar ionosferici. Questo è quanto ho appreso. * che ...
La famosa Kiruna e la sua miniera
Dopo aver letto i commenti su Kiruna sulla guida, che ho descritto ieri, giungo qui non senza qualche aspettativa. La visita alla miniera inizia tra poco quindi vado diritto all'ufficio del turismo e mi faccio solo una prima impressione della cittadina ...
Partenza (pigra) per la tappa di oggi
Stamattina piove ad intermittenza, il cielo è plumbeo e fa freddino, diciamo che siamo sui 6 o 7 gradi ! Non ho tanta voglia di mettermi in viaggio più che altro di vestirmi, caricare ecc.. Oggi la tappa prevede uscita dalla Svezia, passaggio dalla ...
Guidate piano e ocio alle renne...
Insomma pare che la diceria sia vera. Mi sono fermato per fotografarne alcune ed ho quasi immortalato un incidente in diretta !! Le foto parlano ...
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