Visit Finland Holidays and Finland Vacation Packages Guide for Lapland Tours and Trips<< >> Visit Lapland Finland for wonderful year round Holidays and vacations. Experience the long winter twilight with open fires. See the amazing Northern Lights. Enjoy the nightless days of high summer. There is more than snow and reindeer here. As you will discover on your tours of this unique country and its varied natural habitats.
Finland guide offers visitors four distinct seasons that provides different experiences depending when you take your Lapland vacations.
Spring is a time when the snow begins to melt and the growing season, that only lasts around three months, begins
Summer is bright, the time of endless days as the midnight sun stays above the horizon. In some places here the sun stays above the horizon from mid May to mid July. Real hot weather is not the reason for visiting Lapland, as the average temperature varies between ten to sixteen degrees Celsius. July is the warmest time of the year. Which is ideal for trekking, cycling, horse riding canoeing, white water rafting and fishing. You could also do a spot of brown bear watching. Summer is a time of lots of art and music festivals. There is the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Pori Jazz Festival. Other more quirky meetings can be found such as the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships, along with the annual wife-carrying competition in Sonkajärvi and then there is the renowned swamp football in Hyrynsalmi.
Autumn is when the Lapland days get shorter, and nature starts preparing for the coming winter. At the beginning of September the trees change colour from green into vibrant shades of golden yellow and glowing crimson.
Winter can start as early as August with snow falls but permanent snow cover normally begins in November. This is the famous twilight period, when the sun does not rise above the horizon and there are only a few hours of weak daylight. Darkness falls around 2.30pm in December. February is statistically the coldest month of the year, and late February is the time when the twilight period ends.
Finland vacations packages in winter are more than just a quick flight to see Father Christmas. There is plenty of downhill and cross country skiing, skating, snowshoeing, snowmobiles and husky sleds. At the end of your Lapland day you could enjoy a finish sauna, great food and a roaring fire. Then there is the mystery and attractions of the Northern Lights. You could spend a night of your holidays in an igloo while admiring the Aurora Borealis, as they illuminate the horizon with a dancing greenish or reddish glow. A room at the Ice Hotel is also a must do holidays activity. It is built from the ice and all its rooms are carved from ice. You could find your room carved into all kinds of fantastic themes from beds with horses' heads at the foot to a long curled tunnel where you have to cross a small ice bridge to get to bed or you may have a huge dragon curled all the way around the room. Then there is the Absolute vodka bar made again entirely of ice. Here you sit on the ice chair at the ice table and drink your vodka from the ice glass. The doors are made from the skins of Laplands most common and best known animal the reindeer.
Finnish National parks are a magnet for all outdoor lovers. In some of them you can hike for a week without seeing a road. There are thirty five national parks in Finland , such as the Lemmenjoki National Park, Urho Kekkonen National Park and the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park that are the largest in Finland.
Lapland is a large, sparsely populated country with barren but beautiful Arctic landscapes in the North. You will also find vast unspoiled forests, aapa bogs rich with birdlife, rich river waterways, hills and countless crystal clear lakes. To the south of the country is the Turku archipelago, which is one of country’s most stunning natural wonders. Here you will find over 20,000 islands stretching out into the sea from the city of Turku. Turku is a bustling summer town, on the southwest coast of Finland, and it sits astride the River Aura.
Helsinki the capital is worth spending some time exploring and most flights arrive here. Most organised Lapland tours would start and finish here.
The culture of the Finnish people is a mixture of lots of various influences. Swedish, Norwegian and even Russian. From times past the effect of logging camps and the gold rush have added to the Lapland culture. The Sami culture is still much in evidence and it crosses the borders of five nations. The Sami see themselves as a people with their own distinct culture, language and way of life.
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