Fancy a great fun skiing holiday or just a holiday with a fresh fresh difference in Finland? A holiday there could be a fairy tale experience. Children no doubt would love the cabins, Christmas cottages, and hotels in the resorts available in winter, appearing like veritable winter wonderlands. You can even build your own igloo, spend a night in an igloo to see the Northern Lights (the Aurora Borealis) if you are lucky, and you may never in your life see trees laden with so much snow. Everything you see outside of the cities and towns in Finland in winter is spectacular.
In the resort of Levi, there is the Wonderworld of Ice to explore on holiday. This incredible sight must certainly appeal to all ages.
Summer in Finland is great too. The air is so pure, and there are many activities organized to delight the holidaymaker. Cycling, trekking through woodland on raised plank footpaths; enjoying the lakes for diving, fishing, rowing, or simply sunbathing on the deck of a small ship at those times when you have a yen to relax – all these lovely healthy options are open to the holidaymaker in Finland, whilst your accommodation could be a cute cabin with all amenities.
On holiday in Finland in winter, depending on which resort you choose, there is great skiing, snow boarding, sledging (the Husky puppies are adorable), you will take a sauna then an icy plunge in to a hole of freezing water, or maybe turn some somersaults on the ice in just your trunks. Finland will get you that way. The activities are all great fun and so invigorating.
Finland is the most sparsely populated country in the European Union, and has recently ranked as one of the world’s most peaceful and livable countries. Large wildlife mammals are found in Finland like the brown bear, the grey wolf, wolverine, elk (moose) and reindeer. Atlantic salmon remains the favorite of fly rod enthusiasts.
Finland has a humid and cool semi-continental climate, with warm summers and freezing winters. Surprisingly the warmest days of July and August can be as high as 30 degrees centigrade. Finland is urbanized with many cultural events and activities, in addition to the lovely resorts. The country is regarded as the home of Santa Claus (children, prick up your ears), another reason for taking children on holiday there.
The best known foreign language spoken in Finland is English, so understanding people will not be a problem on holiday there.
The Levi resort which is in the Lapland area, the northern part of Finland will certainly allow holidaymakers to experience the beauty of Lapland. The Levi resort is famous for its fell, Levitunturi which is a ski resort in the winter months between October and June, and for biking in summer. The wide variety of winter and summer activities available makes Levi an excellent family holiday destination at any time of year.
Head for the resort of Rovaniemi in Lapland, Finland sometime before Christmas and see Santa Claus himself driving his reindeer-drawn sleigh. A Snowmobile Fair is held in this resort the weekend of the 5th and 6th November. Be there for a short break and get some thrills and excitement if you are into snowmobiles. Your holiday accommodation could be a Christmas cottage. Enjoy Lappish hospitality in the holiday villages in the surroundings of Rovaniemi.
The resort of Saariselka is a fairly large winter sports centre high up in Lapland, Finland. It is nestled in a valley, a compact strip of a village, a one-eyed place one could say, if it were not for the great splurge of hotels, shops and restaurants which make a holiday there possible, and even great. There are two fells both equipped with ski lifts.
From Saariselka you can pretty much walk anywhere you want to, but if you have heavy gear in tow, you can just hop aboard the Ski Bus which shuttles between the village and the slopes about once an hour. You could also go snowshoe trekking through the countryside. The views of arctic scenery are breathtaking from higher ground.
Yllas is a large ski resort with the winter wonderland hotel, 18 ski lifts offering holiday skiers in Finland over 1500 feet of vertical descent, and 34 pistes. That’s 18 miles of skiing in total. There are also 175 miles of cross country ski trails in Yllas. So this resort sounds like a dream holiday destination for ski enthusiasts. Folk who go there for a holiday once seem to return time and time again. Apparently they are indeed memorable holidays – in modern well-equipped accommodation too.
All in all, whichever resort or time of year takes your fancy, Finland is highly recommended for holidays.
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