Finland's Kuopio
went through typical Finnish landscape: lakes, forests, lakes, forests, Lakes, lakes, lakes, forests ... Unfortunately, the temperature dropped further and further, so that from Baden was in the wonderfully clear lakes nothing. In addition, we were surprised by the end of the tourist season and as much of the visit of the Karelian open-air museum in Kuhmo due to closed gates water. But we bought pissed off fishing success in Möcki own Angel.
Finnish landscape.
Our path led us further and further north to North Cape and Lapland. Soon we passed the first warning sign that we are now in reindeer breeding area, and instead of the known from Sweden Attention Moose signs welcomed us Attention reindeer plates. The first reindeer were then not long in coming. Three of these comical animals stood in the middle of the road and could not be unflappable.
warning sign - The first reindeer.
In Rovaniemi we crossed the Arctic Circle (latitude those on which the sun for one day a year does not set). The special of Rovaniemi is that this line is applied to the soil and the same we have here the main post office of Santa Claus set up. The whole thing is totally touristy, but somehow still belongs to Finland trip.
on the Arctic Circle.
impressed us then, the memorial to the victims of the Winter War, a little further north on a field much more.
memorial to the victims of the Winter War.
We wanted to explore Lapland, not only by car and so we came to the Urho Kekkonen National Park in handy. We gathered information and a map for a two day hike and started in cool temperatures on the road. It was over open country and we met a whole herd of reindeer. For the night stand in the National Park Wild huts. You are usually equipped with a gas cooktop and an oven. The rule is that the Wayfarer, which looks at the most exhausted allowed to sleep in the hut.
In summer hiking, winter trail - reindeer herd.
As we prepared our dinner, met another wanderer in the hut. Chloë from France. But she went even further on the same evening a cottage and as we learned later, she has even seen a bear.
on the hike.
On the way to increased Ivalo is knocking at our Büssli. A loud tock-tock-tock-sound had been around for several days and were to be our companion. After the third attempt we found a garage in Ivalo, had time to examine our Büssli the next day. So we had a whole evening and had nothing to do after the walk again sauna mature. At the Hotel Ivalo we enjoyed two hours, the heat before we then found something beyond a place to sleep.
seeds monument.
On examination the next morning (at eight clock), the mechanics found a defective ball bearing. Luckily they were able to provide a replacement part with the four-bus Clock . Let We decided while waiting to buy some supplies to Norway and as we stowed them greeted us at Zurich-German suddenly someone from a VW bus. With Peter and Serafina, the straight goods from the North Cape in the south of Finland on the road, we exchanged some Büsslierfahrungen VW and they told us how touristy and expensive, the Nordkapp is.
spent the rest of the day in the library of Ivalo. We could start again because the laptop does not even let the Internet use the library and included acquaintance with Christian from Germany was waiting for his luggage. He told and showed us photos of the "true" Nordkapp: the road to Hamningberg. It did not take long to change our plans. Since Tom is in the same direction as we wanted (he went for 10 days on the Lemmenjoki to fish), we waited with him in his luggage and took him to Inari. In thanks, we got a professional bait for our fishing gift. The fishing luck can still coming.
Our new professional bait.
The next day we visited the Siida, the museum of the history of the Sami and Lapland.
In Siida: Shaman Drum - turf hut.
Wir spulten etliche weitere Kilometer ab bis zur norwegischen Grenze. Gönnten uns aber als Abschiedsessen aus Finnland in einem Hotel leckere Rentiergerichte.
Norwegen
Norwegen begrüsste uns mit kühlem Wetter aber anfangs strahlend blauem Himmel und auch der erste Fjord liess nicht lange auf sich warten. Diesem ging es dann einige Kilometer entlang hinaus Richtung offenes Eismeer.
Vardo: erste Eindrücke von Norwegen.
Christian hatte uns nicht zu viel versprochen... Die Strasse nach Hamningberg war sehr eindrücklich. Nur drei Meter breit schlängelt sie sich durch Stein- und Felswüste. Es gibt überhaupt keine Bäume und die Steine sind mit Flechten in diversen Farben bewachsen. Man hat wirklich das Gefühl auf dem Mond zu sein. Wir kamen aus dem Staunen nicht mehr heraus und mussten etliche Fotostopps einlegen.
Die Strasse nach Hamningberg....
Hamningberg selber ist dann ein kleines Dörfchen, dass nur im Sommer bewohnt ist. Obwohl das Dorf so klein ist, gibt es hier eine öffentliche Toilette und einen Trinkwasseranschluss. Einfach perfekt, wenn man so reist as we do. We found a place to sleep on the beach, and despite some poor weather (overcast and starting to drizzle) we decided to stay for two nights. The next day we climbed a hill and went armed with torches in the remains of a huge bunker of the Nazis. Impressive and depressing at the same.
Our Steinmanndli.
bunker exploration.
Something drew us still further north. Both of us have never been this far north, and somehow we were going up as far as possible. A View of the Road then showed us that the "tourist" North Cape is situated on an island and not the northernmost point of mainland Europe is. The northernmost mainland point is that is a little further west on the peninsula Nordkinnhalvoya near Gamvik. This is the northernmost place to be without a ship, bridge (or tunnel, as in the case of Nordkapps) can achieve.
The Way Gamvik was again very impressive. To the typical Norwegian roads (very curvy), it went down and up. A short time you drive along the sea around a little later to go over a pass. Then again, a long fjord. Again and again we see reindeer.
way we forked Autostöppler then two on the way to the North Cape. When we told them about our plans, however, they asked if she should come along with us. So we drove to fourth after Gamvik and hung out with Victor and Karolina from Poland for a peaceful evening at the northernmost parking lot of the European continent.
on a pass with Karolina and Victor.
foot in the Arctic Ocean - the northernmost parking lot.
The next day, walked we provide a wonderful sunny weather at the end of the peninsula and shot Expedition Photos. Ok, just as we admit here that the most northerly mainland point is on a 20 km distant headland, but it is reachable only by a two-day hike. Finally, we wanted to reach the northernmost point on our Büssli.
at the northernmost point of our trip.
The northernmost mainland point: the very back in the haze.
Now we are back on the road to the south. Karolina and Victor we did yesterday on a road to Finland discontinued and we enjoy the ride through the fjords.
Oh, yesterday we saw a moose. Luckily not on the street, but through the bushes, which unfortunately made it impossible then also any pictures. And yet what, until now we were really lucky in terms of mosquito story. We do not have any stitches (no wonder at these temperatures !)...
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