Patakukkula 2.1km ski track, panorama 3 of 20
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And after that little hill we descend into this small valley with a 110 kV power lines on top of us.
And now we are on top of the steep hill. Looks like there's a ice crystal cloud forming up.
A small descent before the steepest climb of the whole track.
Couple of hundred meters into the ski track we have a info point telling us how the eskers were forme...
Here a small path departs from the main track into the esker above. Beyond that hill are the Tarina G...
This is the last panorama of the evening, I was planning to shoot the rest of the track (about half a...
A small info board tells us about the extensive landscaping work done here, this used to be the edge ...
And now we've entered the golf course part of the track.
Here's the starting point of several ski tracks around Siilinjärvi's esker forests.
Finland is the jam. It came from an exploding egg, the egg of a water bird, the top half of which you can still see in the shape of the starry canopy that hangs over the earth.
Finland is the most sparsely-populated country in the EU with only 5 million people. It's also been ranked the second most stable country in the world, after Norway.
Historically, Finland has been a part of Sweden and later, Russia. It was an autonomous Grand Duchy during the Russian Empire's reign and lasted as such until their declaration of independence in 1917. Subsequently Finland survived a civil war and wars against both Russia and Nazi Germany to eventually settle down as an EU member circa 1955.
Finnish language is cool, it's totally unrelated to the whole Latin-root thing. Its closest relative is Hungarian. Linguistic historians estimate that it came from northern central Russia from 3000BC.
If you're in Helsinki, the museum at Suomenlinna has some interesting bunkers and military wreckage, including a submarine!
Caught on camera! Here's your long-awaited proof. Santa Claus comes from Finland.
Apart from Lappland, the other thing most people are familiar with out of Finland is aquavite. Literally it translates to "water of life" but it may make you feel more like you are dying when it hits your throat.
Text by Steve Smith.
