Pyhatunturi Lapland

Kerontie 22, Pyhatunturi Lapland, Finland

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Trek Day 3

A travel blog entry by deannadippold

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... we walked across with rock walls on the hills lining them.
We stopped for lunch at a camp (they have a small camps set up at various points with campfires. There is a hut full of wood at each camp, but the wood is in the form of logs which must be chopped (there are also axes.) There were also latrines set up at the camps but they were not for women. The whole was set really far back and too big for a butt to sit on. It was a ...

Trek Day 2

A travel blog entry by deannadippold

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... back about a mile to the Base Camp. After the class four there were some class 5 and 6 rapids. Dad: The National Park we are in, Oulangan tutkimusasema, was featured in the June 2009 National Geographic. We then ate at the base camp. It was salmon soup, chicken noodle soup, and bread.
We then drove to the reindeer farm. They herd their reindeer once a year in the winter becuase there aren't enough natural resources for ...

Trek day 1

A travel blog entry by deannadippold

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... have many things to do regarding both winter and summer recreation ie. snowboarding, sking, cross country, nordic trek, hiking, snowmobile, ect. It looks like fun place but they don't get many U.S. people.....too far. We then went to Oulangan tutkimusasema...a national park. They allow people to hunt and pick mushrooms and flowers in their national parks. They have 36 of them. People are also able to do these things on other people's private property. ...

Isomummulassa

A travel blog entry by pihla

Liki 9-kymppiset isomummu ja -ukki saivat virikettä päiviinsä, kun Pihla rantautui tervehtimään karavaaninsa kanssa. Kävimme kylpylässäkin, Pihla oli kovin innoissaan veden läpsyttelystä. Vauvauinti on kantanut hedelmää. Sukeltaminenkin onnistui hyvin. Ulkona pakkanen paukutteli reippaasti alle -20 asteen, joten Suomen talvesta nauttiminen jäi ...

Silent People in Suomussalmi, onderweg nr Kuusamo

A travel blog entry by cmiles

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Op de weg tussen Kuusamo en Kajaani, staan 1000 stro-kop poppen, het kunstwerk "Het stille volk" (Hiljainen Kansa). Uiteraard is er ook een winkeltje met de stomste souveniers, maar wij kiezen uiteraard voor de lekkerste van al, een pannekoek met bosbessen.
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