There were 5 of us who went together (me, daryl, meiqing, chee kiang n fuxiang). The train ride was 12 hours long and it was really tiring... we started out playing tai tee on the restaurant table and were super noisy. After about an hr, some guy came and wanted to chase us away because we didn't buy any drinks from the restaurant. We stood up and were about to leave... and the Finnish people around us kept telling us that its okay and to continue playing. There was one guy who even argued with the man. We were rather surprised that they "treated" us so well! But in the end, i think the waitress there had to ask us to leave because that man complained non stop.
After 12 hrs... Rovaniemi here we come!
Outside the train station
Took a bus to visit the Santa Claus village. Daryl and I love this place the most out of the whole trip! There were a few snowman hanging out there and they were HUGE... like this:
And there was Santa of course... but it was too ex to take photo with him. The whole village looked very white cause of the snow, and there was a forest behind the village which really looked like a fairyland to us... we felt like we were in Narnia.
This signboard showed us the different countries in the different directions, and I am so glad that they built it with Singapore in mind! (made me feel like going home) Cause not all the countries are mentioned in this signboard. Singapore is at the bottom...
In the Main post office of Santa Claus!! Its really cool! There were alot of letters to Santa from people frm different countries... i read one which thanked santa for the presents. don't know how it works... but we could actually request Santa to write a card to us during Christmas!
The 5 of us at the "fireplace" in Santa's room
Pretending to be Santa~
We wrote postcards and threw it into this special mailbox that would only send the card to us during Christmas this year.
This structure is really tall and I think I was only halfway up there that i decided to come down. It was really scary cause of the height and also because the structure has alot of "holes" and when I looked down...ermm... that feeling made my feet tremble. Haha... And it felt a little unstable too. (but it should be stable.. its just psychological) Fuxiang climbed the highest and he was still up there while we were already waiting downstairs. Can u spot him? heh..
There are still lots of photos... will show you all when I come back! haha... Moving on, we took a 5 hours bus ride north some more... to Inari. We checked in our hotel at night and woke up the next day with nothing to do, nearly! The information office was sort of closed on weekends... and if there weren't anyone inside the office, we could have been eating chips in our hotel for the whole day. Heng we were lucky, there was this lady in the office who was very nice to us. She recommended that we visit the museum nearby and we also rented 2 "kick sleds" and a pair of forest skis to entertain ourselves with. She gave us discount and we paid only 10 euros altogether for those cause we only had 3 hours to play. Usual price is like 8 euros for a kicksled for a day. The kick sled is really fun!! It slides really well on the snow and each of us took turns to slide down this slope down to the lake. Haha.. the lake is frozen of course and there was a really thick pile of snow on top. We also took videos for the sliding part and they are really a must-see cause it was really funny the way I fell like dunno what on my first attempt. Meiqing's one is the most hilarious and i think she will post hers on her blog, to xia sway herself too. hahaha... (i need help to upload videos. will post another blog for the videos later)
daryl is getting heavier... (joking!!)
the 3 guys and the hotel at the back is the one which we stayed in. It looks terrible on the outside but the rooms are really comfy.
We didnt get to drive these snowmobile cause it was too ex... like 100euros per person.
Next is the visit to a reindeer farm to feed the reindeer, which were owned by a Sami family. The Samis are a small group of people living in Lapland. The reindeer are very timid animals and were scared by the group of us. We were chasing after them with food and realised that the only way to feed them is to not move and pretend to be trees so that they will come to us. Haha
We also visited the family's house, where we saw alot of things, such as shoes, that they made from reindeer skin. They often eat the baby reindeer for meat...We had lots of fun trying on the Sami costumes! Btw, their wedding dress is really heavy and they put on lots of jewellery that adds more weight.
One of their costumes that they made themselves
A photo with the host
Havent't got to eat reindeer meat.
A little celebration of Chinese New Year at night... SpArkLerS! But i burnt my gloves while playing... :(
Anyway, we didnt get to see the aurora that night because of the cloudy weather, but we saw some redish orange light that looked like aurora but we couldnt be sure. There were some streaks of green on the sky too. The others decided to stay one more night to see the aurora but daryl and I went back first... So I dont really know whether i have really seen aurora! haha... But at least there were streaks in the sky that we were sure it was aurora.
Long post.. now im really tired. :):) hope the photos are nice.
2 comments:
Wah... I'm so envious...haha...
My friend in Michigan has this neck thingie that she pulls up to cover half her face when she goes skiing... can breathe through it, but it gets quite uncomfortable. Or you can just use your scarf to cover the lower part of your face (if it's big enough!)
Anyway, rest well jie!
yozie! haha... just leaving behind a post for fun... anyway, u did see the northern lights... just that it was a faint one =)
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