Highlights
Goa,
India 2002
Azores
1999
Kilimanjaro
1979
West-Indies
1985
Mountains and Alps
Mountains have always attracted me
I made my first trip to Lapland at the age of 14. After
that the Finnish Lapland was my favourite destination both summer and winter.
In 1960 there was no ski lifts anywhere and no crowds
of tourists disturbed the quiet wilderness. Lapland was really unique.
By the years more and more vacation-centres were built,
tourist hoards started to invade the formerly so peaceful areas. Lapland
changed and
like in many other parts of the world to the worse!
In the end of 1980 in the Saariselkä area, which earlier was called
"The last wilderness in Europe" you could see concrete monsters and luxury
private vacation houses. This is called the development of tourism!
I can comfort myself by having experienced
Lapland before the "development" took place.
By the years I had visited almost all regions from
the Arctic Circle up to Utsjoki and Kilpisjärvi near the Norwegian
border. Stayed
in mountain cabins or outdoor in tent and sleepingbag.
Together with my family, children only between 5 and 10 years,
we made long hikes in the remote mountain areas both
summer and winter carrying everything on our backs. Climbed many mountaintops
including the highest mountain in Finland, Haltia,
with the modest height of 1024m.
I was also a member of Tunturilatu
r.y. and their
sub-association Tunturisudet Arctic
Wolfs.
In 1969 a group of 10 Lapland enthusiasts made a decision
to build a loghouse of our own at the shore of Inarijärvi at
N69°. This old,
about 100m² cabin was our home for several memorable
stays including a Christmas and New Year holiday 1969-70 together with
my
family.
Beside Finnish Lapland we also made trips to more alpine
terrain: Swedish wellknown Kungsleden with Kebnekaise and Norwegian Jotunheimen.
Having friends in Switzerland we enjoyed the magnificent
slopes of the Alps in the Villars district - see pictures below.
Photos below are far from perfect.
Originals made from over 30 years old slides and scanned to PhotoCD
format, dusted off by
MS Picture It! and further enhanced
by ACDSee 3.0.
Pictures from Finnish Lapland
still in dia format - working on it!
Downhill model 1970
2005
Now I have become old and sluggish,
no skiing anymore, only pole-walking
to recall old days when I was in shape. |
Switzerland
Kebnekaise
See also
Kilimanjaro
Across the Continents
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Across
the Continents
Most exotic and interesting
Dog
Island, Anegada Passage-West Indies
Cousin Nature Reserve, Seychelles
Barefoot
Cruise, Windjammer "Flying Cloud"
-
West Indies
Jungle lodging and river trips
Amazonas,
Iquitos-Peru.
Inca settlements in Machu
Pichu and floating islands in Lake
Titicaca, Peru
Puri, India
Kilimanjaro
trail 5 days
Canaima
Camp, Venezuela
Capitals and Metropoles
Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
Reykjavik, Tallin,
Riga,
Moscow,
Warsaw, Prague, Wien, Budapest,
Belgrade, Bern, Lausanne,
Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Aberdeen,
London, Brussels, Amsterdam,
Paris, Nice, Monaco, Rome, Athens,
Istanbul, Cairo, Madrid,
Lisbon, Gibraltar, Valetta,
Limasol, Dubrovnik, Funchal, New York,
Washington D.C., Atlanta, Tampa,
Orlando, Chicago, Toronto,
San Francisco, Los Angeles,
San Diego, Caracas, Lima, La Paz,
Johannesburg, Durban, Dar es
Salaam, Lusaka, New Delhi,
Bhubaneshwar, Puri, Colombo,
Singapore, Manila, Beijing,
Bangkok,
Dubai, Fujairah.
Islands
Mediterranean:
Palma
de Mallorca, Ibiza,
Malta, Gozo, Cyprus, Sifnos,Poros, Egina, Hwar, Pantelleria.
Canaries:
Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote,
Fuerteventura, Isla La Palma.
Caribbean:
Trinidad/Tobago, Barbados, Virgin
Islands, St Barthelemy,
St. Martin, Guadeloupe, Tortola,
Antigua, PuertoRico, Anguilla.
Other islands:
Seychelles-Mahe, Praline, Phuket,
PhiPhi, Koh Lanta.
Madeira,Porto
Santo, Phuket,
Oahu.
Azores:
Santa Maria, São Miguel
Mountains
Finnish Lapland:Haltia,
Pallas, Ounas, Levi, Sokosti, Ylläs.
Scandinavia:Kebnekaise,Galdhöpiggen.
Africa:Mount
Kilimanjaro.
Tenerife:El
Teide |
Greenland
1972
Sri Lanka 1972
Hawaij 1976
Phuket
1978
Philippines 1979
Zambia
1980
Victoria
Falls and Zimbabwe
South
Africa, 1982
West Indies several trips 1975-1985
Mexico,
Baja California 1981
Amazonas
1986
Venezuela,
1987
Florida, Emirates 1989
India 1995
Kökar
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