PLACES:

places of our stay, mythical place in the south of Lapland, the village is located on the commune of Inari, at the edge of the road 4, about 250 kilometers north of polar circle and beside the mounts of Saariselkä and of national park URHO KEKKOSEN KANSALLISPUISTO.

CLIMATE:

The place located between the 60 and 70 degrees of latitude, in the zone of coastal climate of the continent Eurasia, which typically presents the features of the climates maritime and continental to the liking of the direction lots of air…

When the wind blows of the West, time and then undergo the softening effect of the sea.

Continental climate reached of time to others Finland, causing large period’s cold in winter and waves of strong heat in summer.

The temperatures oscillate between -20 to -35 with a record in the East of Lapland recorded by a weather observation station into 1985 of - 50.4 Celsius degrees!

SPOTS:

One finds there the most beautiful spots of snowkite of Europe, the virgin landscapes, enormous spaces. Thus it is discovered that the only existing traces are those left by wild reindeers…

The high plateaus are located at 700m but it is possible to traverse a few hundred km without passing twice to the same place and for most courageous perhaps rubbing with the distant polar circle of 250km!

Very close to the area of Saariselkä the famous road driving “Maantienkurun reitti occurred” to the north on which the Elias Lönnrot writer and explorer M.A. Castrén wrote and recalled in their accounts of voyage in 1841.