The Road to Sevettijärvi
Along the road from Neiden, Norway to the skolt sami village og Sevettijärvi, you could get a sense of why Finland is called the Land of Thousand Lakes.
As Finland's official tourist information describes it, pretty accurately; "Drive through Finland in the summmer and you'll find two colours dominating the scenery: green and blue. The forested landscape is dottet with patches of water - or, in some areas, vice versa - so numerous they have earned Finland the nickname "the land of the thousand lakes".
There can't be many more places in which this is more true than the northern part I visited. They are supposed to have 188 000 thousands lakes. And to give a sense of it all, we were not far from Lake Inari, the third largest lake in Finland. That lake itself is dottet with 3318 islands...
The Road to Sevettijärvi
Along the road from Neiden, Norway to the skolt sami village og Sevettijärvi, you could get a sense of why Finland is called the Land of Thousand Lakes.
As Finland's official tourist information describes it, pretty accurately; "Drive through Finland in the summmer and you'll find two colours dominating the scenery: green and blue. The forested landscape is dottet with patches of water - or, in some areas, vice versa - so numerous they have earned Finland the nickname "the land of the thousand lakes".
There can't be many more places in which this is more true than the northern part I visited. They are supposed to have 188 000 thousands lakes. And to give a sense of it all, we were not far from Lake Inari, the third largest lake in Finland. That lake itself is dottet with 3318 islands...