3. helmikuuta 2015

Photos of Finnish Lapland



Hola!


I used to work in Lapland for almost 3 winter seasons.

I was mainly working as a receptionist in a hotel called 
Muotkan Maja, located in Saariselkä. 




In Lapland, they experience "Polar Night", a complete darkness.

Depending where you are, it starts around October-November and ends in January. 
This means the sun does not come up at all. They spend months without sun. Can you imagine? 
Well then again during mid-summer the sun does not go down at all.
So when it's sunny, it will shine day and night. 
Crazy right? 

During my working months the sun came out for the first time after the dark months just before I came back home.


There you can do all kinds of winter activies, for example -

Snowboarding, skiing, husky/reindeer sledding, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, aurora hunting etc.


The temperature changes like the wind.
It might go down to almost -40c, during summer it might get to +30c. When I was there, the temperature changed between -20 and -35.

In Lapland the air is so dry, the cold does not really feel that cold.
Even if it is -30c, sounds crazy, but it feels the same than -15c in Southern Finland.

We had a journalist visiting our hotel who wrote an article of us and the Lapland.

Also mentioned me in the beginning, if you are interested you can click the link below-






-Ida

3 kommenttia:

  1. Loistavaa, Ida!

    Upeita kuvia ja muutenkin todella onnistunut työssäoppimisjakso!

    Oletko matkustellut vapaa-ajallasi tänä keväänä?

    VastaaPoista
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    1. Olimme Kap Verdellä vanhempieni kanssa 2 viikkoa :--)

      Poista
  2. Hienoja kuvia! Tässä tulee nyt sitä ammatillista näkökulmaakin esiin. Voisit myös kertoa hieman lähdetietoa lehtijutusta, jonka olet linkittänyt postaukseesi.

    VastaaPoista