Tag: Nuorgam

  • The morning started with the visit up to the “mountain” Kaunispää. We took few pictures there and continued to the next mountain (Urupää) and there we chose the “old road” which is called “The magnetic hill”. Long time ago it was difficult for bigger cars to climb up to the hill (especially in the winter) and somebody made up the story that there was strong magnet keeping them down!

    We checked The airport in Ivalo but we only met one reindeer:
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    The road between Ivalo and Inari is very enjoyable ride but usually you will meet many rendeers here! We were lucky since we didn’t see any! We also stopped at “Karhunpesäkivi” which is a big boulder with kind of giant’s kettle inside the stone… And you can go there! There are few strange holes in the inside walls of the stone and this made it possible to make up many different stories about what happened and why…
    But it is known that there was a bear in winter hibernation many times long long time ago…
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    These stairs lead you to the stone and the stone looks like this (PicBy Puppe100 – Oma teos, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71268537) :
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    Next time we stopped at the viewing tower of Toivoniemi. It is actually named as a bird watching tower but anyway there’s quite nice view from the tower to the Lapland nature around!
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    The actual “Toivoniemi lintutorni” looks like this:
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    This you can find near Kaamanen village and there’s also an old airport that was built by German soldiers… or actually their prisoners of war. So still after 70 years there’s nothing but “empty land” in the place where was supposed to be the speedlane:
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    From Utsjoki we found our cabin to stay for the next night. We took the luggage away from the bike and continued “naked” to the north…
    There is one museumroad between Utsjoki and Nuorgam. It’s a gravelroad that climbs quite high above the river of Teno and you will have very nice views from there!
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    Only few kilometers more north and we were here:
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    And because the idea of this tour was to stay in Finland we turned around!!
    Very close there is the road called “Pulmankijärventie“. If you choose this road you will find amazing place without any trees and open landscape everywhere around you!
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    This might be the only place in Finland where you can find this kind of view!
    I also had to take a picture of my bike with this bridge (Sami Bridge between Finland and Norway):
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    Plus some pictures with the Drone:
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    And video:

    Our Cabin at Camping Lapinkylä was like this:
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    Once again my wife made a video about this day:

    The route for the day 8 was like this: