At Hossa, we did a tour around a lake which is squeezed in between rocks, something different to the flat lake district we had been travelling through.
The National Park is called Kansallispuisto, but the area is better known as Hossa, I wonder why ;-). We had spent the night at a parking off the Via Karelia, where a beautiful day greeted us, so we were soon on the road to the NP.
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| Parking for the Night |
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| Our first reindeer!! |
Where a dirt road crosses the lake Julam-Ölkky, a big parking waits for all the eager hikers. The 10 km tour around the lake is very well known and there are also boat tours and canoe rentals offered.
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| Call 112 and tell them where you are 😉 |
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| What looks like a river canyon is actually a lake |
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| Lost ????? |
When Edi discovered that he had lost his sunglasses, we went back to the last spot where we took pictures but didn’t find them. After checking the pictures I had taken of him, we knew that he lost them already earlier. We went back again and were lucky: there they were, waiting to be picked up again!
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| Getting a bit off the main track |
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| Half way, a bridge is crossing the river |
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| Blueberry lips 😉 |
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| Fireplace at the end of the lake |
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| Lake cruise for the lazy ones |
From Hossa we drove on, to find a more secluded spot, which we found south of Kuusamo. Campfire Nr. 6 (65.887344, 29.329955) next to the Salpa line fortification zone, a defence line constructed to fend off the Russians in the Winter War.
We had some pitta bread, filled with squeaky cheese and grilled to perfection. We finished it off with some mustard-gherkin-salad – a delicacy we had discovered in Finland. Yummy!!
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| Glorious morning sun! |
