REINDEER GAMEs; in the Land of the midnight Sun.(Travel)

From: The Saturday Star (South Africa) | Date: May 10, 2008 | Copyright information

Unbridled tourism has reached Beavvaseama, the Land of the Sun. Snowmobile safaris and husky sledding trips now face stiff competition from self-drive reindeer excursions. In north Finland you can now rent a "polkka" or sled and hurtle around the Lemmonjoki National Park and wilderness areas of Hammasstunturi, Tsarmitunturi and Vatsari with a free-range lichen-fuelled Arctic ungulate as your chauffeur.

You can go off-roading on a reindeer. As one promotional flyer in a l...

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