January 13, 2012
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Glass Igloo Village Kakslauttanen – watch Northern Lights above the bed Updated: January 13, 2020 | By Claire | More From the height it looks a bit like UFO landing site. Shining glass balls situated in the snow and geometrically perfectly arranged in the middle of the forest… But in fact it is a glass […]
Tags: arctic-circle, bath-fireplace, cool-pond, finland, glass-balls, hotel-in-finland, igloo, insulating-glass, lapland, lapp, natures, northern-lights, rest-rooms, saunas, sculpture-contest, ski-resort, sleeping-bags, statues, teepee, warm-beds, wooden-cottages, woolen-socks
Categories: Finland, Travelling Tips
January 7, 2012
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Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park – the third largest national park in Finland Updated: January 7, 2020 | By Claire | More Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park is located in Finland, in the northern part of country, in western Lapland, near the town of Enontekiö. It is the third largest national park in Finland with a total area of […]
Tags: altitude, aurora, countryside, cross-country-skiing, europe, finland, forests, hiking-trails, lapland, log-huts, national-park, nature, nature-reserve, northern-lights, pallas, peat-bogs, sea-level
Categories: Finland, Nature
March 3, 2011
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Biggest Ice hotel in the world – Sleep well in -5 °C | Sweden Updated: September 2, 2020 | By Claire | 3 Replies More Have you ever thought about sleeping in 5***** hotel in -5°C? If so, you should go to the north of Sweden, just 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. In […]
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Categories: Sweden
April 28, 2010
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Finland is the Nordic wonderland of extremes — the land of the midnight sun and the polar night, of sauna culture and Sibelius, of Europe’s densest forests and its most spectacular Northern Lights displays. Regularly ranked as the world’s happiest country, Finland offers travellers an extraordinary combination of pristine nature, cutting-edge design, and genuine wilderness […]
Tags: arctic-foxes, birch, brown-bears, central-finland, featured, finland, finnish-forests, gulf-of-finland, lemmings, lynx, muskrat, nordic-country, northern-europe, northern-lights, northern-ligths, otters, republic-of-finland, rparts, species-of-mammals, tampere-finland, west-norway, wolverines, wolves
Categories: All Countries, Finland