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Hiking in Finnish Lapland
Home of open fjells, highland lakes and forested wilderness areas, Finnish Lapland offers wonderful possibilities for hiking. Particularly so, as the area hosts many well maintained national parks, which also offer you high class information services and marked trails, which take you in the middle of the beautiful Finnish nature and back, through the forests and past resting places with excellent facilities for wilderness camping available. Although Finnish Lapland is filled with good places for hiking, the most popular hiking areas and routes are found inside the national parks of Yllas & Pallas and Saariselka area. Also the northernmost corner of Finland, which means Kilpisjarvi, is a popular hiking destination, favored especially by those wanting challenging open highland terrain and an extra amount of peace and silence. Lemmenjoki National Park offers not only treeking in lapland, but also river cruises and gold mining culture.
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