Other interesting places or events - Finland
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The Devil's Nest, the deepest ground erosion in Europe | Rating: 8.20 |
| Finland has the deepest karst failure in Europe with a depth of 23 meters, called the Devil's Nest. It's creation took more than 1 million years and went through 4 ice ages. Glaciers moved the rock and filled the hole with granite, sand and other materials. All this was cleared at the end of the 20th century and the failure opened to visitors, read more... |
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Oulu | Rating: 7.80 |
| A city in northern Finland, on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia, a convenient place to spend the night when traveling around the country, read more... |
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Ruka ski resort (summer) | Rating: 7.40 |
| Ruka is the most popular Finnish ski resort. Due to its location, the season here begins in October and lasts until May. We drove here for an overnight stay in the summer, while traveling in Finland. This place has a lot of hotels and developed infrastructure, read more... |
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Oulanka National Park | Rating: 7.20 |
| National park with beutiful nature in the north of Finland. The attractions here are hiking trails along the Oulanka River, high rocky shores, waterfalls and a beautiful forest, read more... |
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Mariehamn, Aland Islands | Rating: 6.80 |
| The Åland Islands are an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. Autonomy within Finland, with the special demilitarized status and even the official language is not Finnish, but Swedish, read more... |
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Korpikeidas Contact Zoo | Rating: 6.60 |
| To visit this small small petting zoo you first need to go here N 61 06.987 E 28 34.949 where located cafe and shops. As a ticket you will be given the key to the zoo. Then you drive here N 61 07.174 E 28 35.324 where located the entrance to the zoo, read more... |
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Punkaharju National Park | Rating: 6.60 |
| Nature park with forests and lakes in the center of Finland. We stopped here on the way from Savonlinna to Helsinki. It is interesting even to drive a car along the narrow stripes of land covered with forest. In some places, their width is equal to the width of the road, read more... |
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Kuusamo Predator Center (Kuusamon Suurpetokeskus Oy) | Rating: 5.40 |
| The shelter is a house for animals who lost their parents and could not survive in the wild. The main inhabitants are bears, but there are also foxes, lynxes and wolves. We drove here, as the shelter is conveniently located along the route from north to south. The visit is paid and possible only with a guide, so come at 10, 11, 12... hours. Tours are in Finnish and there are not so much animals, read more... |
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Veijo Ronkkonen Sculpture Garden | Rating: 5.40 |
| From the 1960s, until his death in 2010, the Finnish sculptor Veijo Rönkkönen created about 560 sculptures that are exhibited in a garden open to the public, read more... |
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The silent people art object | Rating: 5.20 |
| This installation first appeared in 1988, when the choreographer Reijo Kela made it during one of the dance festivals. Scarecrows were symbolizing all the unemployed in the region, about 900 people. In 1994, the installation was taken to Helsinki to represent the Kainuu region there. In the same year it was installed at the current location, read more... |
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