Overview

Lapland is a province of Finland, and is traditionally known as "Finnish Lapland." It is a winter wonderland inhabited by very, VERY few people. Although tourism has been growing ever so slightly in recent years due to the popularity of some ski/snowboard/snowmobile resorts, in general Lapland has great distances with no people and few established "tourist attractions." It is just a beautiful landscape, a case for wintry solitude. I was most interested in the Sami people, the indigenous inhabitants of this land (well, all of Scandinavia around the Arctic Circle). Subsistence reindeer herding is still a primary way of life.