Santa Claus is Europe's last native (Photos)

Lapland has three fourths of the land in the north of the Arctic Circle, the unique polar scenery and customs of indigenous peoples, make it becomeTravelingResort. Here look, almost all the forest, rivers, lakes...... While the season into the winter, all of it is covered with white snow, stretch as far as eye can see, like the world outside wonderland.

Finland is known as the country of a thousand lakes

Sami is the native of Lapland, has been living here for thousands of years, is called by the peopleEurope"The last indigenous". The Sami family has its own unique language and way of life, and the reindeer is an integral part of their lives.

The hometown of Santa Claus is located 8 km north of Santa Claus Village in Lapland's largest city Rovaniemi. The children all over the world can write to live here in Santa Claus, confide, ask for gifts......

Reindeer

Snow at the end of the year, is Europe's most children look forward to a time of year. The children hope is, the bearded Santa Claus braving snow, starting from the Lapland area of the Santa Claus Village, across the vast expanse of the forest, the frozen lakes and bays, pure fields, and then braved the smoke from the chimney down, bring packed in socks for Christmas at home......

Santa Claus is the starting place of Lapland, is the name of the vast land in the north, it crossesSweden,Finland,NorwayAnd Russia, which has about three fourths of the land is in the north of the Arctic Circle, belonging to the Arctic climate, the annual average temperature is below 0 ��. The special geographical position and the harsh climatic conditions, so that this piece of sparsely populated land still maintains the original and charming colors. In Lapland there is no industrialized, modern atmosphere, here only with a chill pure air, boundless wilderness, the towering mountains rolling, dotted with lakes, strongly fragrant forests, as well as simple and frank Sami...... In fact, it has become a very few are not modern culture of the land the world.

The original reserves the final

In Finland feel 100 degrees temperature bath

Although most areas of Lapland are located within the Arctic Circle, but here is not the only people imagined a world of ice and snow. In many cases, it is actually a huge color mosaic -- by the innumerable lakes, rivers, forests and swamps connected.

The Inari, is this color mosaic on the sparkling blue gem. After ten thousand years of ice chisel, Inari now form the appearance: an area of more than 1000 square kilometers of the Great Lakes, in Finland have "1000 lake country" reputation, ranking the third largest lake. In around the lake, mountain steep, like a small waterfall streams running into the lake, and from the South and West slopes down, into the river. Lake in the north and East, is boundless forest, inhabited by a group of reindeer, and wolverine, lynx, carnivorous mammal. Lake rich food source, not only for the flocks of birds, even inside the Arctic Circle endemic organisms, such as white arctic fox, also can be in the lake.