We are back!
Lapand was great.
Many pics, will upload some soon!
Here is to summarise:
There were a few nationalities who went on this trip: Finns, German, Turkish, Spanish, French & Singaporeans (us).
8 hours of bus trip,
reaching there at 6.30pm on Friday.
Me, Pearl and a German guy, Sasha, shared a very nice & cosy log cabin!
The whole room was made of logs! Cool!
Had sauteed reindeer, mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam for dinner! It was 19.50 euros which was included in the fee. Some had wine to go with the dish.
The Spanish taught us their culture, of how to eat bread with wine & sugar! (:
Ended the night with sauna in our cabins.
2nd day,
snow mobile & husky ride(:
The dogs and puppies were incredibly cute!
There were 6 dogs on a sleigh, where one will stand behind controlling the sleigh and the other will sit in front. I stood & Pearl sat down. But i did nothing on controlling the sleigh because the intelligent dogs knew their way well!
Snow mobile sits 2 persons, the driver must have driver's license!
So i was the passenger. Fun fun((:
Not forgetting our "ninja" outfits!
After that, we rented skis! The person there was great cus he allowed us to rent for 1 & a half day!
The usual price was 26euros for one day, but we paid only 15 euros at student price! (:
We fell down many many times!!!
The worst thing was going downhill, because when we fell, we tried to stand up but fell even harder! So we ended up sliding down the hill with our butts! OMG! Hilarious!
We also went to sauna, and ran out with towels wrapped to lie on the snow! That is the Finnish culture! Whee!
3rd day,
was snowmobile sleigh ride to the Amethyst cave.
We drank hot berry juice in the cave while listening to the person telling us about stories of amethysts. We mined our own lucky stone! Mine was a nice purple colour stone, while Pearl mined a stone with 3 different colours- black,white & purple. But as the stone was pretty small, so we have to see it upclose to make out the colours. Anyway, hers was nice!
Then, we went to the souvenir shop to buy some stuffs. And continued skiing til 5pm.
For dinner, we went to a nice restaurant with nice ambience and lighting! There were candles on each table, so romantic!
We had shin of reindeer which was really delicious!
Pearl also had dessert, Lappish cheese with cloudberries. I tried a little, and while biting the cheese, it will seem as though one is cleaning the glass window! So unique!
The cost for the reindeer was 18euros and 9 for Lappish cheese. Worth the money i must say!
4th day,
was Santa Clause Village!
We spent a lot of money on souvenirs there!
We took picture with Santa & bought 5 pictures at 30euros.
Pearl also bought a Santa DVD!
After that, we took 8 hours ride to our apartment.
(:
Pictures soon!
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