Back in Kansas
17. kesäkuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ 🌧 29 °CHome!
Home!
Back in US. Just need to make my KC plane from Chicago. 1 hr!
Got up at 3:30 this morning for a 6 am flight. It was light when I got up. Going back home via Munich and Chicago. Goodbye to Finland!
Visiting old Tallinn in the morning. Cruising back to Helsinki this afternoon. Flying back home tomorrow morning.
We had a very early flight from Joensuu, Finland to Helsinki. In Helsinki we caught the ferry to Tailinn.
Spent the afternoon and evening walking around the 13th century walls.
Starting our time in the Koli National Park and the Koli Hills around Lake Pielinen. The three hills are Paha, Akka and Ukko.
We had some bushwacking on the way. Great to jump in the sauna after aLue lisää
Today we learned how to make traditional Karelian pastries. We took a boat out to a small island. We hiked around the island and had salmon soup with our pastries for lunch.
The boat ride was coldLue lisää
Suo is bog. We hiked across the national park including across a two mile stretch of boggy area on planks.
After a relatively short hike this morning, we were picked up by a boat to go white water rafting Finnish style. Finished the day in a smoke sauna with a dip in the lake! We snacked on the gravlaksLue lisää