TOP PLACE TO VISIT
PLACE: the woodland marshes in Arctic Lapland (800 km from Helsinki).
Some ideas
- Catch cloudberry fever. We will escort you to the rich berry land to find the Gold of Lapland. This is a fruit cloudberry, a Nordic berry which is the richest with vitamins.
- Find out a Finnish family secret about the best „jankka“ hiding the cloudberries, passed down for generations.
- Discover Ranua, a small town on the southern border of Lapland. Ranua takes its dedication to the cloudberry seriously. Not only are the chemist, pizzeria, supermarket and hotel all adorned with cloudberry signs and stickers, bulbous berry sculptures crop up just about everywhere.
- Save the first weekend of August and visit The Golden Cloudberry Festival in Ranua that declares itself the capital of the cloudberry and hosts Lapland’s annual Cloudberry Market for over 40 years. The festival sees more than 300 cloudberry sellers bringing their freshly picked wares to the market to flog to crowds of berry fanatics.
- Mash cloudberry into jam or have a cooking master class of this delicious fruit.
Wild adventures in fresh air are waiting for you!
