One of the trips that I considered that you should do if you are in Finland is the Lapland trip. I went with the ESN (Erasmus student network) to the trip and they organized the cottages and buses to Levi, where we slept. We spent there 5 days and it was really amazing. Our cottage was a completely disaster, our door was broken, we didn´t have wifi, we didn´t have beds for everyone, just a few beds and sofa beds...but it made the experience funnier and now we have a lot and a lot of stories to share and remember. I´m not going to write every day like a diary because it will make this really long, so I´m going to talk about the important things we made there. Obviously, the worst part was the eleven hours by bus, but I also have a story about the way back at the bus.
We visited the Santa Claus village, and it was quite exciting but I was a bit disappointed, like you can imagine, it was a really touristic place, and the worst thing is that there were two Santa Claus!!! They were in different buildings but it doesn´t make sense, I can´t understand why there are two, anyway the village is cute and I think it´s really amazing for children. Another activity that I made was the husky safari, which I recommend but it was soooo freezing, I couldn´t feel one of my fingers, but after the race you can go to a cottage with a fire and eat the typical sausages at fire, it´s one of the things I like the most of Finland winter. Also, we could see two reindeers and the Huskies after the race. We also rented snowshoes and we were walking to a hill and the views were amazing, the way to go there wasn´t that amazing hahaha, and there was a lot of snow and one time one of my friends lost his snowshoe and he didn´t realize, we were looking for it but with all the snow was impossible..
Although our cottage was the worst one we had a sauna and I really enjoy it, I think I went mostly all of the days, it´s a really good option when you had been for a few hours outside, when it´s -30º. Also, we had a fireplace and it was cozy, one day we made smores (I had never tried one before), they were so good!
I think we didn´t make more activities, because of the prices, but other people made some like snowmobile, ski, cross-country, horse ride, etc. One free activity that we made and I really enjoyed was sledging, it´s really funny! And of course, we went to karaoke, which it´s very famous in Levi.
I could say more things and stories, but I don´t want to make this longer, so I´m going to say the most important things and I´ll end this entrance, maybe, another day I can write more about this amazing trip. So, the most important and impressive thing was to see the northern lights, it was awesome! We had to go different times to a frozen lake to look for them and the first time we just saw some white things in the sky and we were a bit disappointed, but then, one night we spent a lot of time in the lake and when we were leaving we could see them, it was one of the most impressive things I´ve seen in my life, they were green and a bit purple and they were like dancing in the sky, I can´t describe it, you have to see them understand, but it was one of the best things of the trip, and I think I´ll always remember it!
We visited the Santa Claus village, and it was quite exciting but I was a bit disappointed, like you can imagine, it was a really touristic place, and the worst thing is that there were two Santa Claus!!! They were in different buildings but it doesn´t make sense, I can´t understand why there are two, anyway the village is cute and I think it´s really amazing for children. Another activity that I made was the husky safari, which I recommend but it was soooo freezing, I couldn´t feel one of my fingers, but after the race you can go to a cottage with a fire and eat the typical sausages at fire, it´s one of the things I like the most of Finland winter. Also, we could see two reindeers and the Huskies after the race. We also rented snowshoes and we were walking to a hill and the views were amazing, the way to go there wasn´t that amazing hahaha, and there was a lot of snow and one time one of my friends lost his snowshoe and he didn´t realize, we were looking for it but with all the snow was impossible..
Although our cottage was the worst one we had a sauna and I really enjoy it, I think I went mostly all of the days, it´s a really good option when you had been for a few hours outside, when it´s -30º. Also, we had a fireplace and it was cozy, one day we made smores (I had never tried one before), they were so good!
I think we didn´t make more activities, because of the prices, but other people made some like snowmobile, ski, cross-country, horse ride, etc. One free activity that we made and I really enjoyed was sledging, it´s really funny! And of course, we went to karaoke, which it´s very famous in Levi.
I could say more things and stories, but I don´t want to make this longer, so I´m going to say the most important things and I´ll end this entrance, maybe, another day I can write more about this amazing trip. So, the most important and impressive thing was to see the northern lights, it was awesome! We had to go different times to a frozen lake to look for them and the first time we just saw some white things in the sky and we were a bit disappointed, but then, one night we spent a lot of time in the lake and when we were leaving we could see them, it was one of the most impressive things I´ve seen in my life, they were green and a bit purple and they were like dancing in the sky, I can´t describe it, you have to see them understand, but it was one of the best things of the trip, and I think I´ll always remember it!
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