Finland
“You’ve come to Finland for the first time?” The note of white envy is quite often heard in this question. So a person, who has read an interesting book, usually asks the other one, who is going to open this book for the first time.
Finland-holidays.com – this is a portal, which will acquaint you with Finland online. We offer different interesting information on our pages for those, who are going to leave to Finland for the first time as well as for those, who have already visited this country. You’ll know a lot of facts from the history of cities in Finland to the peculiarities of Finnish cuisine.
Those people, who prefer to plan their holidays independently, are able to make use of the base of housing in Finland. Our portal is for reservation online different hotels as well as private accommodation options: cottages, houses, apartments, villas and so on.
Finland in winter and Finland in summer, Finland from a hotel window in Helsinki and Finland on the berth in Turku, Finland from the basket of aerostat and Finland along the skiing routes in Rovaniemi ... There is the rich choice of available activities in Finland today. You can’t even believe at once, that this severe Scandinavian region can be so varied.
First of all, Finland is the country of winter. “Suomi” gives a treat to its guests with ice fishing and cross country skiing, sled dog races and snowmobile tours, cold vodka with crawfish and hot sauna. But you should not forget to bring the reserve of wool socks, coats and mittens!
Finland is the home of Santa Claus. It is generally assumed. Although even children today know, that there is no Santa Claus in Finland. There is Yolupukki, or in translation from Finnish, “Christmas goat”. Yolupukki is the character of pagan mythology, which brings gifts to children on the occasion of the mid-winter Yule. With the advent of Christianity Yolupukki changed into a grandfather with a white beard and kind eyes. But we know, how it really is.
Nevertheless, Santa as well as Yolupukki isn’t set aside in Finland. There are special places for both. Santa Claus is honored with the whole park in Finland. Santa-Park is located not far from Rovaniemi. Yolupukki is content with a modest residence on the mountain Korvatunturi near the border with Russia.
Finland is the country of healthy rest. Not sanitary, namely healthy. Finns managed to make the cult of healthy lifestyle and reverent attitude to nature to be a distinctive feature of tourism in their native country.
The rest in a water park, summer holiday in a SPA-hotel at the resort in Kyopio or simply weekend in Finnish cottages on the lakesides of famous Lake Saimaa - everything will be done there to avoid tiring idleness. You should only choose the activity to your taste: sports grounds, bikes for rent, table tennis, canoeing, football, horse riding…
