Tag: Julma-Ölkky

  • We had a nice sleep in this small cabin.

    My car beside the campingarea cabin

    On the northside of Suomussalmi there is quite famous “art installation” called Silent People. It was originally put up to a private field in 1988 but in this field it has stayed since 1994! There is almost 1000 “people” standing in the field… It is such an interesting installation!

    Haypeople
    If you find an interesting t-shirt you can take it! Just leave your own t-shirt there!

    Quite soon after Haypeople we turned to Hossa National park. We wanted to check the deepest canyon in Finland! We took the 5 km walk to the new hanging bridge in the middle of the “Julma-Ölkky” lake. This is so beautiful Finnish nature!

    Bridge is about 5m from the lake surface…
    But the canyon walls goes much higher!
    The lake is called “Julma-Ölkky” -impossible to translate…

    If you want to visit this lake we recommend you will take the road from Hossa (from east)!This is only 8,5km’s. The road to west from the lake is in much worse condition and can be full of surprises and it’s 25km’s.
    We took a room from the old Omena hotel in Ruka. Omena Hotel in Ruka doesn’t exist anymore and nowadays there is few rooms/ apartments available from “Vuosselin Helmi apartments”. We also checked few possible places to sleep in the car but didn’t find any.
    The route for Day 3 was like this: