Lapland

On the second last day we went to a Korouoman canyon out to the east of northern Finland. This was a tip given to us by our guide the previous night. It was an almost 2 hours drive which meant it was a race against the sun.

Here we did a 5km hike to look at 4 frozen waterfalls. The hike was very beautiful, we also had to hike with crampons for the first time seeing as it’s -10 and the trail isn’t maintained.

The waterfalls are brown due to all the iron in the ground in the area. There is also 1 that’s pure blue. Some crazy people climb up these waterfalls 😳.

It was amazing, we also saw some reindeer on route.

The last day we went dog sledding, both Nicola and I were uneasy as animals usually aren’t in the best of conditions in tourism industry. We did allot of research to find out if it’s ok.
The guide explained to us that these dogs NEED to run 50km a day or they start pulling their enclosure apart. You could also see when they were prepping us these dogs were chomping at the bit to get started.
They all seemed to be looked after extremely well and the guides really placed an emphasis on their safety even more so than the clients.

This was such a fun experience and was great to be able to spend some time with these amazing pups.

This was the last big activity of the trip.

Lapland is such a beautiful place and I can highly recommend a long weekend away here.

Ps. Northern lights aren’t guaranteed but 50% chance, it’s one of the best places in the world to witness it, unfortunately we didn’t get the chanceもっと詳しく