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The colours of Lapland
make Lapland a land of contrasts


Colours of Lapland

The colours of Lapland make Lapland a realm of contrasts. Are you looking for places where you can experience an horizon that is miles and miles in all directions? Lapland has them both when you cross the treeless mountain plateaus or visit the Varanger area. Lapland is the ideal destination. Lapp women at Inari Here your thoughts will wander - sometimes in surprising directions.

The contrasts of Lapland are waiting for you - the opposites in light and darkness and of warmth and cold. Here are the mountains and the islands, the deep, calm forests and the Arctic ocean - which may sometimes roar and be scary. And sometimes you may even see the people of Lapland in lots of colours.

(Photo: Olav E. Johansen)



The winter twilight

As the year starts, Lapland is in the middle of winter with its own sounds and colours that you won't find many places on earth. Take the time to listen to the creaking sounds of your wife or children walking at minus 25 centigrades. And give yourselves the opportunity to feel the frost biting your cheeks. For a short time you can let the cold lady caress you with her cold kisses. It is really a different experience.

Think about the silence of the falling snow and the purity of its colour. During the twilight period you can experience the famous blue light and the light cascades and colours of the Aurora borealis - the norhern light.

When the sun returns

From the end of January the sun is returning to Lapland. The first days after she comes, she she is barely above the horizon with her reddish light. As time goes you'll see the changes in the character of the light and the brightness of it. The brightness is extraordinary because of the reflecting capacity of the snow. Sunglasses are a must for many of us to avoid snow blindness.

This is the time for winter activities like skiing, motor sports and reindeer and dog sports - just to mention a few.

The colours of spring

What about watching the sun at two o'clock in the morning at the Arctic Circle at Aavasaksa in Finnish Lapland or at the North Cape itself at 71 degrees north? Spring is time for the red of the midnight sun, the white snow and the different colours of the melting snow.

This is the time for all the ice to break up and melt. From April the nights are getting short. The long dark winter darkness and twilight are turned into the season of the nightless nights. The migrating birds are coming back from April. The reindeer calve and the broken ice of the rivers are floating downstream - sometimes with much noise.

Summer colours

Colours of Lapland Tana river The short Lapland summer is really something with the nightless nights or white nights when it is light night and day for a long period. Nature explodes in beautiful colours to get ready for autumn. And humans, both locals and visitors, enjoy nature and what she has to give.

See this colours of Lapland video.





(Photo: Olav E. Johansen)

The ice bathing season at Bugoynes has started

Ice bathing at Bugoynes has become very popular

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The Bugoynes village is also called Little Finland

The Bugoynes village by the Varanger fjord is also called Little Finland, or Pikku Suomi in Finnish

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The road Alta-Kirkenes

The road Alta-Kirkenes (E-6) goes along fjords and rivers, and passes mountains before it ends in Kirkenes on the Russian border

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Tana bru is the centre of the Tana municipality.

Visit Tana bru which is near one the best salmon fishing places of the whole Tana river.

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Enjoy your Lapland travel

Many kids dream of a Lapland travel and visiting Father Christmas, but it is something that many parents now bring into reality. With trips to Lapland

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Arctic tourism works in a vulnerable nature. Here are some things to think about.

Arctic tourism needs to take into consideration that Lapland nature can be vulnerable. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has developed ten principles.

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The North cape is major attraction of Lapland

The North Cape is probably the most visited attraction of Lapland.

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The Arctic Circle in Lapland.

The Arctic Circle in Lapland can be crossed at many points. Experience the midnight sun and winter darkness and twilight

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Where the Reindeer Roam


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