Another week, another country

Hi everybody,

As Matthias already said we left Turkey and we’re in Finland at the moment.The difference between these countries is immense. Turkey is known for its culture and especially for its mosques, and in Finland it’s all about nature. Nature is definitely a key word when somebody is talking about this country, because 65 percent of this country exists out of forests and like you’ve read before there are about 188 000 lakes here.

Of course, Finland has a lot more to offer then its beautiful nature, but my friends will talk to you about that in some following blog posts. First of all I want to give you some extra general information about this country. I think you all know that Finland is a member of the European Union, and its capital is Helsinki. Nearly a fifth of Finland its population are living in Helsinki. Their main language is Finnish, but because Finland was a part of Sweden for about seven centuries, still 6 percent of the populations talks Swedish. 

A nice fact about Finland is that during summer the sun doesn’t go down for ten weeks on a row, and during winter they are living in darkness for about eight weeks.

So I think we’re all looking forward to see some more beautiful things here in Finland, and we hope to see some reindeer as well. I also found a place (www.theborderinn.com) where we can discover Finland by dog sled, but I still have to ask my fellow travelers if their up for it… But you’ll definitely here if we took the chance to do this, because one of us will tell you more about our experiences this week here in Finland!

Thanks for reading!

Lisa Van Gassen

Finland week 11


Sources: http://www.havetravelfun.com/finland/finland-information.htm
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