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Rovaniemi is a peculiar and not especially scenic place. Its streets are designed to resemble reindeer horns from above which are one good reason to fly over the place rather than walk around there. There is a museum of artifacts documenting the natural history of the Sami - the seminomadic reindeer herders who still roam the tundra and northern forests making clothing from polar bear fur and raincoats from seal guts and tents from reindeer hide. The interest lies in Santa Claus Village. At the village you can meet Santa Claus, who lives in a suspiciously well insulated log cabin, and wave to the reindeer team grazing in the adjoining meadow. There are polite signs discouraging tender hearts and the Christmas hopeful from feeding or bribing the reindeer. Even with a glass of milk and cookies.
Lapland stretches a good deal further, way up to impossible Norway. You don’t need to go too far into the Arctic in order to feel the place. I hired a car and made my way some 120km up the Arctic Highway to the Pyhatunturi National Park, just south of Sodankyla. I stayed a day at the hotel there, rambling across the marshland and pine forests, climbing craggy fells, listening to the loud and keening solitude of the wind. It was the kind of noise that makes a place seem more silent.
And there, near the top of the world, I walked across a landscape so strange and movingly desolate. I watched the pale sun move across the horizon like a raw egg in a bowl of milk and felt how wide the world really is and how alien it can be. I felt tremendously happy to be here, wrapped tight with my cheeks flushed and exultant, feeling the fleet, sweet illusion of glimpsing even if just for a moment and got something of the Finnish soul. As I walked back to the hotel, so help me, I whistled 'Finlandia'.
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