Tour de Nord

5000 km, 20 days, friends, good weather, remote places... we found paradise, where every wish became reality.

somewhere in the middle of Sweden, 1:00 in the morning, my first stop on the way to Kirkenes to pick up KoSte

morning lake has local colours

my second stop - Emilie and her monsters in Vitå. Great to see her so happy there

driving more north to Finnland. Interesting main road to Inari

third stop - Njurkulahti, Lemmenjoki national park

exploring a few sections of Lemmenjoki river with my Palava boat

fishing grayling in crystal clear water

local bears

from Kirkenes we drove to Øvre Pasvik, rented a canoe

and during 3 days explored several lakes

in perfect weather, even without mosquitos, in wild nature

free cabin on Norway-Russia-Finnland borders

getting lot of fish (greyling, pike, perch)

nice spot for grayling and Stepanka

after Øvre Pasvik we drove north, to Varangerhalvøya national park

we found this simple old cabin in Ytre Syltevika. It was used by Norwegian partizans during WWII, to spy German ships

it is located next to this bay and it is more to the east than Istanbul

nice valley nearby, we got amazing char for the dinner in the lake there

and experienced some magical moments there

our next destination was Vesterålen. On the way we crossed some winter areas...

to arrive into the summer

we spent 1 day hiking along the coast (The Queens Route)

swimming in Atlantic

chilling in the harbour

watching whales and puffins

and moved to our final destination, magical Senja island. Kanoying, hiking and fishing...

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.