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Ålands Museum, Åland
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  • Updated By hopang on May 17, 2009
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    Ålands Museum
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    Ålands Museum is located on the eastern end of the harbour between the Town Hall and the Parliament building in the heart of the town of Mariehamn. It is one of the few interesting museums on the island of Åland and one of the few popular tourist attractions at Mariehamn. The museum is located in a comparatively small building as depicted on our photo. It has permanent exhibitions on the history of Åland from the pre-historic era until present day Åland. The opening hours are between 10.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. daily during the summer months except Monday which is closed. A souvenir shop is also located in the museum dealing in books, post cards and other souvenirs.

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  • Address: Öhbergsvägen, Mariehamn
  • Phone: 018 - 250 00
  • Directions: Located on the eastern end of the harbour between the Town Hall and the Parliament building in the heart of the town of Mariehamn.
  • Website: http://www.visitaland.com/en/alandsmuseum and/or http://www.aland.fi
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    Pommern Museum Ship, Mariehamn, Åland
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  • Updated By hopang on May 16, 2009
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    Pommern Museum Ship
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    Pommern is a museum ship anchored at the harbour of Mariehamn in Åland not far from the city centre. It was constructed in the early 20th century. It is a four masted barque built in Glasgow in the United Kingdom. The ship is approximately 95 meters long and 15 meters wide and has a total weight of approximately 2,300 tons. Its main mast is approximately 50 meters high.

    The museum ship is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the town of Mariehamn. It is also one of the few museum ships in Northern Europe! The operating hours of the museum ship are between 9.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. daily during the summer months. Admission fees are 5.00 euros for adult and 3.00 euros for children. Make it a point to visit Pommern Museum Ship when you visit Åland on your vacation! We consider the museum ship one of the most beautiful we have ever seen in Europe!

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  • Address: Mariehamn, Åland, Finland
  • Phone: +358 18 531 421
  • Directions: Anchored at the harbour at Mariehamn in Åland not far from the town centre.
  • Website: http://www.pommern.ax/welcome.html
  • Other Contact: E-mail: pommern@mariehamn.ax
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    Cycle!
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  • By SanguiniA on November 22, 2005
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    • To cycle or not to cycle?? - Finland
    To cycle or not to cycle??
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    Finland is a great place to enjoy cycling - it is flat and there is some nice scenery. The little towns are great to cycle through too. Bikes are easy to find, and a cheap alternative to expensive transportation costs - and it is fun too! Finns love cycling so there are many cycling paths.

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    Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki
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  • Updated By hopang on May 15, 2009
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    Uspenski Cathedral,
    Helsinki
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    Uspenski Cathedral is located near to the Viking Line terminal at the harbour in Helsinki. We have been to the outside of this cathedral twice from our several trips to Helsinki but each time we wanted to enter the cathedral, it closed - hard luck! The Uspenski Cathedral is undoubtedly one of the few prominent landmarks that dominate the skyline of Helsinki together with the Lutheran Cathedral nearby.

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  • Address: Kanavakatu 1, Helsinki
  • Phone: 09 634 267
  • Directions: Located near the Viking Line terminal at the harbour in Helsinki.
  • Website: http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/uspenski_cathedral_(helsinki)
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    Lakes
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  • By magor65 on October 1, 2004
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    • Saimaa Lake District - Finland
    Saimaa Lake District
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    Lakes cover about 10% of the country's area and can be found mainly in the southern part of Finland. They are not very deep, so they freeze easily in winter changing into snow-scooter routes. In summer they provide excellent opportunities for rowing or canoeing, and lots of Finns have their summer cottages by the lake.
    Saimaa Lake District not far from Mikkeli and close to Savonlinna fully deserves its name of one of the most beautiful parts of Finland. This maze of lakes with rocky shores, tiny islands, strips of land covered by forests is literally breathtaking. And Litvesi road leading through six islands and over seven straits is definitely the most beautiful road in Finland. In some places you drive on embankment that is 15 metres high. Every few kilometres you can't refrain from getting off the car to admire another masterpiece of nature and take another picture of the fabulous scenery. Go further east and you will get to Punkaharju - a sandy seven-km longe ridge covered by pine trees and linking the shores of a big lake. To appreciate the view you should climb to the top of observation tower. Punkaharju looks from there like a green snake creeping along silver and blue carpet.

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  • Directions: Saimaa Lake District
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    Lapland
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  • By magor65 on October 1, 2004
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    husky of Lapland
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    I think that Lapland is this place that attracts tourists to Finland. We associate it with unspoilt nature, reindeers, endless hiking trails, husky safaris, and of course Santa Claus. Visiting Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland, will give you only the foretaste of what this region may be like and, as it was in our case, the feeling that next time you must explore the 'real' North. And I regret to say that Santa Claus village and arctic circle was a big disappointment. They are too kitschy and commercial for me. Looking at the queue of people (often adults) who waited to shake hands with a fake Santa Claus and have a picture with him for 'mere' 17 Euro, made me think: 'Aren't they crazy?'. So we quickly left the place and took a nice stroll along Koujanoki river in Rovaniemi.
    I wonder what is the best time to visit Lapland. For people like me, who are not very keen on winter sports and prefer higher temperatures, summer seems to be the best choice. We visited Rovaniemi in August and the days were long, at 10 p.m. it still wasn't dark. But during part of the summer the sun doesn't set at all. So next time I'll come here in July to experience night-less night. And i will go to Inari!

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    Lutheran Cathedral, Helsinki
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    Lutheran Cathedral, Helsinki
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    Lutheran Cathedral is located at Senate Square just 300 meters from Saluhallen and the harbour of Helsinki. It is a lovely Russian Orthodox Cathedral, one of the few located in Northern Europe! We have been to the outside of Lutheran Cathedral at Senate Square on numerous occasions, probably five or six times, but we have never entered the Cathedral before! We will make it a point to enter the Cathedral at least once on our next trip to Helsinki. Nevertheless the Lutheran Cathedral is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city of Helsinki!

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  • Address: Yliopistonkatu 7, Helsinki
  • Phone: +358 9 709 2455
  • Directions: Located at Senate Square in the heart of the city of Helsinki. Tram no: 1 or 2.
  • Website: http://tuomiokirkko.kirkkohelsinki.net and/or http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=110193
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    Aurora Borealis
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  • By magor65 on October 1, 2004
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    Aurora Borealis
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    What a pity we haven't seen the northern lights. But I've been told abot this spectacular 'performance' by my Finnish friends and I got a little picture of them as a souvenir. Aurora Borealis appears quite often in the sky, especially on clear winter and early spring nights. The phenomenon is the result of a discharge of particles from the sun. When they arrive in earth's atmosphere, they collide with atoms in its higher layers and this collision releases energy seen as light. The most spectacular show may last about 15-20 minutes. First the sky near horizon turns light green, then the lights go up and the higher they are the more colourful they become. They seem to dance and whirl assuming different shapes. As the people of Lapland of ten say, they resemble a tail of a gigantic fox.

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    Helsinki - Pihlajasaari
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  • Updated By sabsi on June 21, 2005
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    Pihlajasaari
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    Pihlajasaari is a rather small island off the coast of Helsinki and you will find beautiful lonely beaches, forests, rocks, a wonderful kahvila with an even more beautiful terrace and even a nudist beach here.

    I absolutely loved lying on the beach here (not the nudist one tho ;) - with views of ships on their way to Tallinn, bright sunshine and with the funny colourful huts behind us.

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  • Directions: The island of Pihlajasaari is just 15 minutes away from Helsinki by boat. The boat leaves at Cafe Carusel in Eira (at the end of Laivurinkatu), a return ticket costs 4,50 €.
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    Suomenlinna
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  • By magor65 on October 6, 2004
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    Suomenlinna
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    Suomenlinna is a Unesco World Heritage site. The fortress was built in 1748 by the Swedish to defend their empire from Russia. Called Sveaborg, it was the biggest fortress in Sweden. In 1808 it was defeated by Russian troops, who changed its name into Viapori. When Finland gained independence in 1917, the island's name was changed again, into Suomenlinna. During the Finnish Civil War (1918-1919) it became one of twenty prison camps. It was here that about 10 thousand of the Reds were kept and more than 10 % of them died of starvation and disease.
    Today the museum exhibitions remind us of the stormy past of the island. But many visitors come here just to relax, have a picnic or a meal in a restaurant.

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  • Directions: about 15 minutes by ferry from Helsinki
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