5000 km, 20 days, friends, good weather, remote places... we found paradise, where every wish became reality.
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| somewhere in the middle of Sweden, 1:00 in the morning, my first stop on the way to Kirkenes to pick up KoSte |
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| morning lake has local colours |
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| my second stop - Emilie and her monsters in Vitå. Great to see her so happy there |
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| driving more north to Finnland. Interesting main road to Inari |
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| third stop - Njurkulahti, Lemmenjoki national park |
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| exploring a few sections of Lemmenjoki river with my Palava boat |
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| fishing grayling in crystal clear water |
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| local bears |
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| from Kirkenes we drove to Øvre Pasvik, rented a canoe |
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| and during 3 days explored several lakes |
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| in perfect weather, even without mosquitos, in wild nature |
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| free cabin on Norway-Russia-Finnland borders | | | | | | | |
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| getting lot of fish (greyling, pike, perch) |
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| nice spot for grayling and Stepanka |
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| after Øvre Pasvik we drove north, to Varangerhalvøya national park |
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| we found this simple old cabin in Ytre Syltevika. It was used by Norwegian partizans during WWII, to spy German ships |
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| it is located next to this bay and it is more to the east than Istanbul |
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| nice valley nearby, we got amazing char for the dinner in the lake there |
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| and experienced some magical moments there |
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| our next destination was Vesterålen. On the way we crossed some winter areas... |
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| to arrive into the summer |
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| we spent 1 day hiking along the coast (The Queens Route) |
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| swimming in Atlantic |
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| chilling in the harbour |
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| watching whales and puffins |
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| and moved to our final destination, magical Senja island. Kanoying, hiking and fishing... |
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| selection of fish we got. We were not lucky all the time: Stepanka got cca 15kg pike, but it was so huge, that we were not able to get it out of hte water, Max got halibut of probably very good size, unfortunatelly it escaped after a while of fight and I lost one nice sea trout from the hook. We also tried salmon in Rossfjorden, however without success. |
