Way beyond the Arctic Circle in Finland

[merttu]

Just wanted to share some pics from the latest summer trip to Arctic North...

If you truly want to get out and forget time and cell phones this is the place to go! The sun doesn't set at all between late May and mid August, local people don't use traditional time at all, everything's by "the light of the day"... you can have a date just describing where the sun is in the sky The kids are playing outside 4.00 a.m. when the parents are working at the yard... There is nothing to compare to light Scandinavian summer nights! There is magic in the air!

Pair of swans on a midnight swim...

Kilpisjarvi area, north west Lapland

Arctic Sea in July...

Kilpisjarvi area, north west Lapland

Making coffee in a Kota...

Nap time...

Little cabin in the middle of nowhere...

Kilpisjarvi, Finland

River Maaninka, north from Kuusamo Finland

Wild strawberries...

Reindeer food...

On the road again...

Midsummer fields...

Oulanka National Park, Kuusamo Finland

Lonely summer reindeer...

River Kuusinki, Kuusamo Finland

 

[Wayland]

Great photos.

Takes me right back......

 

[Nat]

Fantastic photos. Looks really nice and natural up there.
I can dream

 

[BorderReiver]

Lovely pictures,thank you.

What were the mosquitos like (numbers of,not a description please )?

 

[Hoodoo]

Superb photos! Thanks for sharing. Makes me regret I never made it north when I visited Finland.

 

[ddokkum]

Really nice pictures...

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Yeah nice photos. Mozzies ?

I would like to take my canoe,MTB and rock climbing kit to the Lofoten Islands some time.

Nick

 

[eraaij]

fantastic pictures. Thanks for sharing. Finland must be bushcraft heaven.

-Emile

 

[hiraeth]

Thanks for sharing the photos. It really is an incredible place I spent a week in Levi last December and cant wait to return.

 

[scottishwolf]

I'm sooooooooooooooo jealous You're a lucky guy

It's somewhere i have always wanted to go but never have due to money etc. Maybe one day

 

[john scrivy]

fantastic stuff it was all white when I went there

 

[merttu]

Lovely pictures,thank you.

What were the mosquitos like (numbers of,not a description please )?

Right now you're talking about Finnish Air Force... there are really that many in July

 

[Deleted dude 7861]

Stunning, seems like bushcraft heaven for sure. Nearly landed a job in Finland years ago but just couldn't master Finnish or even Swedish fluent enough to cope in time! Still my dream to end up there. Love Sami song and the culture so NRK Sami radio is on mostly here. I always carry my puukko when out in the wilds, it's treasured

 

[mayfly]

Yep, agree, great photos, thanks, yet another place on my wish list...

 

[Lodian]

You have a nice dog, id love one like that.

 

[witchazel7]

Truly evocative pics - thanks for sharing them! Makes me so nostalgic - for a canoeing trip we made a few years ago to Paanjarvi, in northern Russian Karelia. The nights were stunning, such deep silences punctuated by cries of birds and rustlings in the blueberry bushes...I'd love to go back!