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  • Holiday 2020 Day 12

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    And again we had quite a perfect morning for swimming! And for morning walk near the Marjaniemi lighthouse.

    Marjaniemi beach and lighthouse, Hailuoto island

    There is actually an active fishing village beside the lighthouse and a pilot-boat station so it was very interesting walk!

    I made this video of the beach in Hailuoto

    And on the other side of the island there is a weird art-installation called “Organum”. This is a 3 piece echo-chamber in the middle of the forest.
    The artist has made few similar all over the world!
    His name is Lukas Kühne.

    Organum
    Weird place

    Then we started driving… First the idea was to stay on the western coastline but since the weather forecast didn’t promise too nice weather we kind of pointed rendom place on the map and it was Iisalmi. Then we started to find something interesting to see there and we found Korkeakoski. And that was actually located in Maaninka which belongs to Kuopio nowadays. It looked like a very nice place!

    Short stop in Vieremä

    But the drive became also a race against the rain! When we finally arrived to Maaninka it started raining right away. We chose to rent a cabin and we were quite happy that we found very nice one just beside the lake!

    Our cabin for the next 2 nights
    Right after we arrived it really started raining!

    The route for the Day 12 was like this:

  • Holiday 2020 Day 11

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    Waking up beside the river in Lapland is quite nice. I took my drone up even it was max 50m.

    Ounasjoki
    Levitunturi (mountain)
    Ounasjoki early morning

    Later the weather was not very nice in Finland either. But there was a chance that it wouldn’t rain so we decided to go up to Aavasaksa -after we crossed the Arctic circle…

    Aavasaksa is one of the first “Tourist attractions” in Lapland. There was visitors from other countries already in 18th century. In 1881 they built “Emperor’s Hut” for possible Russian Emperor visit but it never happened!

    Emperor’s Hut

    Aavasaksa is 242 meters high “mountain” just beside border of Sweden and Torniojoki -river. On the top of the hill is also one of the Struve Geodetic Arc -points. We took a walk around 2,5km path on the top of the hill. We had to take our raincoats because it was raining a little bit.

    Aavasaksa

    We also checked little bit of the city of Tornio -I was very interested how they had arranged the check in points on the border? But it was just a border patrol car beside the road before Sweden.
    There is an old church in Alatornio. This was built (1797) only 11 years before Sweden lost a war against Russia. And the church was built honoring the King of Sweden -I would say quite bad luck for him!

    Alatornio Church

    Then we drove all the way south of Oulu to the island of Hailuoto! Because weather forecast was quite nice for the evening and for next morning! Yes, the evening was nice but there was also quite strong wind!

    Dinner
    Pöllä beach, Hailuoto

    Trying to make a dinner in this kind of wind was interesting. Ok the food was great but there was some sand and small stones as a spice!
    Route for the Day 11 was like this: