Lapland's Mystic Land of Frost and Reindeer.

World and I | December 1, 2004| | Copyright

Ben Barber is a senior writer at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Traveling to Helsinki in midwinter, we found the streets embossed with slippery blisters of ice. Gray skies poured snow constantly while creative little sidewalk ploughs trucked back and forth to clear the way. But it was not cold enough, it seems.

After a day in the capital, we headed to the airport for a flight nearly 1,000 kilometers further north, to a town in Lapland far above the Arctic Circle, to visit what in summer is called the Land of the Midnight Sun but in winter is ...

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