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Finland Highlights and Events
Travel in Finland with Intrepid
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.
Experience Finland's highlights on these trips
Baltic Experience
15 days
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USD $2,205CAD $2,108AUD $2,035EUR €1,581GBP £1,292NZD $2,605ZAR R16,876CHF FR1,946* Total price tool tip
Scandinavia Explorer
15 days
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USD $3,371CAD $3,221AUD $3,108EUR €2,418GBP £1,972NZD $3,971ZAR R25,773CHF FR2,973* Total price tool tip
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Highlights
- Be immersed in Finnish culture while walking the streets of Helsinki
- Experience the fascinating, traditional life of reindeer herders
- Embark on exhilarating snow adventures in the Finnish wild
- Meet the Sami community in the small village of Inari
- Discover the raw, natural beauty of Arctic Circle landscapes
Finland's Top Picks
Finland hosts the Wife Carrying World Championship each year, and often wins
Top 5 Culinary Delights of Finland
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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- 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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