Finland: the Arctic Circle wild snow sauna

Decided to go to Finland to north of the Arctic Circle, Lapland (Lapland) regionTravelingAt that moment, I have always been in Ta Kwu: on the other side of speak Finnish or English? I be utterly ignorant of Finnish, English can only say some bad words, I can find the north?

The long cold winter, the entire Scandinavia Peninsula as the Eurasian margin not carefully a boat into the Arctic ice, in their sway in the wind. Winter is the most distinctive Finland season, the Arctic Circle beautiful ice and Santa Claus the fairy-tale romantic imagination, adds infinite charm to the north of the country on this planet in winter.

The long cold winter

Dawn to the Arctic.

At one fifteen in the morning, I took the flight from FinlandHongkongFly to Helsinki. Although know the time difference between the two is 6 hours, but when I woke up, had no time feeling, but I already from the warm South China came to a white world -- through the cabin was relatively, lakes, trees, mountain roads and roofs, but they almost always only one color -- everywhere is snow gleams white. For a student in the south, is grown in the south.GuangdongPeople, the first time to see such a scenario, you can imagine how shocked!

Local time is six twenty, Helsinki to. I need to wait at the airport an hour and then flew to the north of the famousTravelingThe ski resort of class D (Levi). At the turn of Helsinki Airport terminal, found where there are signs of Fen, Ying, in Japan, South Korea, five kinds of characters, the original hanging heart had already been snow rushed to be flung to the four winds, now see the familiar Chinese characters, more is to do down, with clear instructions, security, customs clearance, immigration, everything becomes very simple.

At 9 pm, in another happy short flight, I finally came to 170 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle Kittila airport.

Sauna, by the fire drinking sour plum soup is fantastic

Tao ecstasy in snowfield

The road from Kittila airport to Levi, everywhere is white crystal, fresh and cool air into the lungs. Through the snowy forest, from time to time you can see a lot of very nice cottage.

Levi is the Finland in recent years the rapid development of outdoor sports holiday center, many major international skiing events are held here. There are mountain ski resort of Finland's largest, with as many as 48 slope slide. Winter activities include cross-country skiing, snow skiing, snowmobiling, reindeer sled dog sled, etc.. The West from my hotel balcony, is a big mountain ski resort.

To lay down their luggage, I immediately back up the camera to the ski. Looking ahead, the blue sky, dazzling white, people are enjoying every kind of skiing: one or two years old baby sitting in a similar plastic dustpan bucket by long, young parents to pull up the slope, and then like the slide as down, baby also behind the hairy dog in the play chase; sixty or seventy years old also on the ski flying in the snow; the young teenager, is surfing in the high slope, volley dance as a variety of "cool"...... People intoxicated in the snow sports, in the vast expanse of snow from afar, like jumping notes be riotous with colour.