About Travel Guide To Arctic Finland
Victor Leinonen is a Finnish-born author with a diverse background. I moved to Australia in 1971 with my family. Traveled to work in Lapland Finland as a chef/cook from December 2008 to December 2017. The natural environment of Arctic Finland offer a truly unique experience – from the seasons, the two extreme ends of light to the long winter months, and long summer days with the mass migration of birds in the spring season. All of these come together to form an exceptional perspective on the Nordic movement of life.
Victor writes about the locations of Lapland, where he has worked, skied, snowboarded, trekked, traveled, and photographed. A brief layout of Lapland municipalities is included, with place locations of West, East, North, and central Rovaniemi Lapland.
Victor is a keen traveling photographer, traveling on skies in the back country during the winter season and foraging for berries during the summer season and photographing all the impressions of all the seasons of the natural environment.
Travel Guide To Arctic Finland covers the following 12 regions that are a hub of activity during the holiday seasons.
- Rovaniemi.
- Salla
- Pyhä / Luosto
- Saariselka.
- Karigasniemi
- Ivalo
- Inari
- Ylläs
- Äkäslompolo
- Lewi
- Pallas.
- Kilpisjärvi
The above list is not in any particular order, I have listed them because they are the places where I spent the most time in, mostly in the winter season. Each regional location is unique with its history, culture, facilities, and cultural traditions. In order of the size of the city or town and the facilities, then the rule could start from Rovaniemi to Lewi, Ylläs to Saariselkä, Pyhä to Luosto, Kilpisjärvi to Inari and Pallas. The above is not a complete list of all the exciting locations in Lapland. The general idea of the place varies in size, and the urban modernization of the facilities, holiday centers, and Ski Resorts. Rovaniemi is a small city, not a ski resort. There are many services to activities, safaris and ski resorts from there. Pallas Tundra is a remote national park, with very little development made there, in comparison to other locations like Lewi and Saariselkä. Rovaniemi is a city, while Salla, Karigasniemi, Ivalo, and Inari are towns. Ylläs Tundra lakeside is the only one with a big Gondola to the summit.
Know your holiday destination as much as possible
The purpose of the travel Guide To arctic Finland is to know your holiday destination in advance much as possible does provide many benefits, it can eliminate the loss of your valuable time, loss of resources, and loss of the holiday expectations that you may have had before departing on a memorable exotic location holiday of a lifetime.
Services available
The available Services can make or break a holiday, not only if one has false expectations in their thinking. E.g., a guest visitor projecting the standard services available at a modern city with many conveniences of their hometown to a remote Nordic Arctic location. Alternative it can also backfire in reverse, having expectations of a quiet, remote snow-covered Arctic back-country location to the noisy racket of screaming snowmobiles and yelping dog sleighs. The reason’s are many for the Travel Guide To Arctic Finland directory website has been established to provide relevant information on Arctic Finland from the customer’s perspective.
Locations presented
The broad range of potential holiday locations of Arctic Finland presented here at this Directory, covers possible holiday destinations from the South Lapland to the North Lapland, and from the Far East to West Finland.
- Rovaniemi City
- Saariselkä Township
- Inari Lake district
- Äkäslompolo Township
- Ylläs Tundra Mountain Ski Resorts
- Levi Ski Resort town
- Pallas Tundra Wilderness reserve
- Kilpisjärvi mountain plateau lake town
- Norway is a very close distance away from the Kilpisjärvi township.
- Sweden shares the West border of Finland.
Watch the Above video for impressions of the seasonal changes in Arctic Finland.