Last night, in the hope we would catch some northern lights action, we stayed up to 1 am but it was quite cloudy for most of the night and we didn't see anything!
Today we visited a local reindeer farm where we had a sleigh ride through the forest. When we arrived at the farm we were taken to the reindeer and it was two people to a sleigh - all the sleighs were tied to each other so we didn't have to drive this time - just sit there and enjoy the view!
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| Reindeer and sleigh |
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| We're ready to go! |
It was snowing so it felt very wintery being pulled through the forest - you will be pleased to know that we had no near death episodes with the reindeer but one of them became loose from the sleigh in front which caused a bit of commotion. I could have done with the reindeer going a bit faster as it was pretty much at walking pace, but I think we had been spoilt by our husky safari but the good thing was they didn't poo as much as the dogs, nor did it smell as bad!
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| Peter's new friend! |
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| Reindeer in the forest |
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| Us and our reindeer who is looking knackered having had to pull us around for 30 mins! |
After the sleigh ride we were taken into a tee pee for tea and coffee, and to learn about about the reindeer and their importance to the Lapland culture.
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| Everyone coming in to the tee pee to warm up |
We then went to the field where some of the reindeer are kept so that we could feed them. We really enjoyed our visit to the reindeer farm - all I wanted to do was cuddle them but we were told not to touch them as they don't like it!
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| Me feeding a baby reindeer (I want one!) |
In the evening, there was a dinner planned for the group and we were told to turn up in all our snow gear and to wrap up warmly. We were then put in to sleighs pulled by snow mobiles and taken up in to the mountain - what a surprise when we turned up at our dinner destination - an Igloo!
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| Our dinner destination - an igloo! |
When we went in to the igloo there was a big fire pit in the middle where the food was being cooked, and 4 big ice tables with ice benches for us to sit at. We had a lovely meal of mushroom soup, Salmon and a berry cake for dessert - it was the best meal we have had all week!
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| Peter sitting at the ice table (look at the table behind him as well) |
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| The fire pit where they cooked the food |
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| The igloo at the end of our dinner |
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