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With vast tracks of deep green forests, cobalt blue lakes and a capital city steeped in Scandinavian style, there's much more to this Nordic beauty than snow and saunas. Roam free in the wild national parks, be enchanted by the simplicity of small, fishing villages, appreciate modern art and design in Helsinki and gaze skyward at the dazzling Northern Lights… it's all possible in Finland.
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Baltic Experience

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15 days
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  • USD $2,076
    CAD $1,984
    AUD $1,916
    EUR €1,488
    GBP £1,216
    NZD $2,452
    ZAR R15,884
    CHF FR1,832
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Scandinavia Explorer

sweden styrso island young girl looking reflection ocean lake river
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15 days
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  • USD $3,704
    CAD $3,540
    AUD $3,416
    EUR €2,580
    GBP £2,168
    NZD $4,364
    ZAR R28,316
    CHF FR3,172
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Oslo to Berlin

Colourful building of Bergen
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29 days
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  • USD $6,770
    CAD $6,440
    AUD $6,220
    EUR €4,840
    GBP £3,945
    NZD $7,965
    ZAR R51,570
    CHF FR5,950
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Finland's Top Picks

Assortment of berries from Finland
 
Finland hosts the Wife Carrying World Championship each year, and often wins
 

Top 5 Culinary Delights of Finland

  1. Karelian Pasty: This traditional, savoury pie can be found widely throughout Finland. Featuring a rye crust filled with rice and served with egg and butter, this is a simple yet tasty snack ideal for vegetarians.
  2. Berries: Finland is home to some of the world's best fresh produce, and the variety of berries on offer is astounding. Blessed with ideal climatic conditions for berry-growing, visitors can expect to snap up superior tasting, fresh cloudberries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and lingonberries, See them offered fresh at markets and shops, served alongside meals in sauces, jams and spreads or baked in delicious pies.
  3. Kaalikaaryleet: These baked cabbage rolls are a standard entry on most Finnish restaurant menus. Featuring ground beef, rice, onion and cream wrapped in cabbage rolls and served with cranberry or lingonberry sauce, they may be hard to pronounce but they sure are easy to eat.
  4. Graavilohi: Finland has a proud heritage steeped in fishing, so it's no surprise that the quality of seafood is very high. This simple meal of salted salmon doesn't need any dressings or condiments as the pure, natural flavours of the salmon are the main attraction.
  5. Pulla: These sweet bread treats have numerous varieties, from cinnamon, to almonds and raisons. Typically eaten with a coffee, pulla are an inexpensive cafe snack - a great, budget choice in a notoriously expensive country.

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Finland at a glance

  • 3
  • Helsinki (pop: 570,000)
  • 5.2 million
  • Finnish, Swedish
  • EUR
  • (GMT+02:00) Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius
  • Type C (European 2-pin), Type F (German 2-pin, side clip earth)
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