An unabashed tourist and her family explore the world one holiday at a time.
A trip to Lapland is not complete without a ride on a reindeer sleigh. During our recent visit to Finland, Gareth and I had yet another chance to explore the extraordinary landscape of the Arctic Circle through this traditional means of transportation. Our friendly Ylläs Adventures guides dropped us off at the Sami homestead of a reindeer […]
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It’s perfectly quiet. Gareth and I, along with Herman, our Ylläs Adventures guide, are plodding along on snowshoes through the pitch black wilderness of the Pallas-Ylläs National Park. We are in search of the aurora borealis, and we may just be lucky tonight, because the sky is clear and the temperature is a crisp -20°C. […]
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We heard them long before we saw them, an overwhelming cacophony of barking that cut short our conversations and set our eyes to sparkling in anticipation. We walked underneath a sign that read “Rami’s Huskies“, past the board with safety instructions and right into the middle of mayhem. Six sleds stood ready, and tied to […]
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