Gortex Hunting

In Finland, the polar dreams

It is a cosmopolitan city like environment. Everyone speaks English, is safe and said the cleanest city in Europe. It is virtually graffiti free as I walk from the elegant plaza. This is the boulevard of trendy shops and cafes. The sidewalks are heated. Thus, although the culture here seven symphonies, opera and a library in every corner. The fins are large in the design and the big names have left their mark on the world in style edge.

I am grateful to be here at the invitation of the Finnish Tourist Office for a site inspection and travel to conferences. After arrival at the hotel, I get a private tour of the town of Irene, a local guide with sincere passion for his city. There are 560 thousand inhabitants and 43% are single! What a place creative for a trip to AFS. Finland is 10% water with 187,000 lakes and islands 584.

This is a high-tech capital of the world. Effects have an appreciation extreme innovation and love of their toys. Everyday tasks are preformed in their images of Nokia mobile phones. This can buy a tram ticket, pay a parking ticket or a program to turn on the lights before you get home. Also "sauna" where almost all households have electric sauna. More than 2 million to the restaurants have them. Café Tin Tango is a place where you can do the laundry, food and drinking a beer in a sauna with people discussing how to solve local problems of the world.

Shopping is ideal for knitwear, jewelry and glassware. Although prices are tax free high, but I am told Oslo is far more expensive. In the nightclubs fill the clubs, which represent about Nordic oddity like "gay karaoke bars sauna, and ice.

Sunday The Polar Express I can fly 600 miles north of Roveneimi, gateway to Lapland and the fun begins. Here, people on bikes in the snow, swim in the Arctic ice holes and picnics. The hottest place in winter activities. Last month, the city of 35,000 have received 20,000 visitors. It is 2 degrees Celsius and are considered exceptionally hot

We are a group of 22 tour operators around the world and check into a desert comfortable hostel. Each room has a private sauna. The dinner is presented in a rustic lodge light on the traditional candles. Brilliance has Grilled Salmon been prepared on an open fire with foam mushroom soup and blackberry. Then we come together to cook in the wood smoke sauna.

Monday morning, we have developed an head to toe Gortex artic suits for a full day snowmobile safari. Each of us riding our snowmobiles and head super out of the woods. In the lakes comes at speeds of 50 miles per hour! The first stop is a farm with 200 dogs to greet shooting. September husky blue eyes are elected by our sledding sledding adventure dogs. The cacophony of barking, howling and barking is deafening as the dogs wait impatiently for their turn to throw. So strong, so sweet and they love their work. After releasing the rope, which was like a bullet and the journey is exciting. We got to show at the same time 9 puppies. After a thousand lame, I will not.

We stop at a farm for a lunch of reindeer fried potatoes with goat cheese and blueberry ice cream. Back on our snowmobiles, cross a snowy paradise. Crossing the Circle Arctic area of ​​the northernmost of all my travels. Parallel to Siberia, and only 40 kilometers from the Russian border, I by default, but left suddenly to a farm reindeer to be received by Lapp-dressed boys. They perform the traditional Lappish baptism "and give us an official border certificate and a driver's license reindeer. Then, enjoy a sleigh ride from the docile deer but powerful.

It is the land of the indigenous Sami. We learn from the fascinating culture of these semi-nomads who live above the world. Reindeer herding is the oldest living. They have a real love of this frozen ground.

We had four daylight hours today. As I can change back into my jeans, I remember I never cold, even my toes. Luosto train north, a village of 40 residents and check into a magnificent ski resort. Outside on my balcony is a theater in the desert. The purity of nature is represented through a birch forest lit by the moon. Snow game. White silence surrounds me. I am captivated by the tranquility. It is a romantic atmosphere where haste is forgotten. In short words, is spectacular. Here I wait. Here on Earth, the Aurora Borealis presents its most amazing spectacle. Maybe I'll get an overview. A dream calm overcomes me after a very exciting day.

The next day, we ate a breakfast of smoked fish and began visiting the area. A station Newspapers 310 cabins, each with a private sauna. We visited an amethyst mine, the largest working mine in Europe. With peaks in hand a treasure hunt to find the stone bright purple. In the small ski resort Pyha, where lunch in the worlds largest passenger car registration. There is a chapel of snow here entirely sculpted from snow and ice. Marriages are performed routinely. With ice floes, the sermons are short. Another strong point here was a visit to the village Santa Claus. I met the real Santa Claus. He lives here and speaks a dozen languages. His elves are busy at the post office in response to the 40,000 annual letters children around the world.

Back at the airport, our plane leaves a track of solid ice. I lose the polar night and still much in return for a this summer with 24 hours of sunshine.

The following days are productively spent on travel trade fair in Helsinki today. I learned a lot from a country that has exceeded my expectations. I never had the opportunity of the night in the Ice Hotel in Kemi, ride the Sampo Ice Breaker or swim in the Baltic Sea by a combination survival floating. But I'm grateful for the taste of adventure in Lapland. On my last night, a flickering of northern lights dance in the sky. It's a perfect scenario for me to say goodbye and is supposed to bring luck. I hope that good fortune will allow me the opportunity to share this adventure with a group soon. It's like nowhere else I've been. Everyone should experience an atmosphere in the heart of winter.

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