Posts Tagged ‘lapland’

The entrance to the hotel has a ribbed and domed roof, just like a Gothic cloister made of ice and guests get to sleep at -5° Celsius in one of the hotel’s remarkable ice rooms.

The Ice Hotel in Sweden: Lapland’s fairy castle

19 October 2012 | Justin Fox

I headed to the Arctic Circle to visit the original Ice Hotel and to explore Europe's last great wilderness, the frozen wastes of Swedish Lapland.

The forests of Finland

2 September 2011 | Laura Dyer

More than half of Finland is covered in forests full of spruce and pine trees, birds, butterflies, moose, reindeer and bears. This is my kind of country, green and natural, where wildlife is allowed to survive relatively undisturbed in natural tracts of land, without fences.

Standing around the fire chatting, like a normal South African braai

How to braai in Sweden

11 April 2011 | Maja Berthas

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During Sweden's coldest and darkest month, my South African colleague and I jumped on a plane headed for the Arctic Circle. The plan was to bring the South African braai tradition as far north as possible, into a climate of ice and snow.

Dogsledding Lapland, Finland

28 March 2011 | Evan Haussmann

This HD video of dogsledding in Finland was shot, edited and uploaded from a Nokia N8 mobile phone for Nokia RSA.

A snowmobile safari in Finland

24 March 2011 | Evan Haussmann

This video of a snowmobile safari in Lapland, Finland was shot, edited and uploaded entirely on a Nokia N8 from Nokia RSA.