WE WERE DRIVING HOME INTO A RAIN STORM
A TEE PEE
MORE OF MY FAVOURITE CREATURES
CLOUDBERRIES
VIEW TOWARDS RUSSIA
THE LAST TREE BEFORE NONE GREW FURTHER
HELENA AND I AT THE LAKE
THE WAY TO INARI
ON THE WAY
A HERD OF REIN DEER
GEORGEOUS ONES
THE HILLS IN THE DISTANCE IS RUSSIA
HELENA'S DAD MAKING THE DINNER THE TRADITIONAL WAY
MOOSE AND VEGES( LIKE A STIR FRY)
IN THE COOK HUT( WHICH IS IN THEIR GARDEN)
SNOWMOBILES FOR THE WINTER.Today Helena took me to Lake Inari, the size of Lake Taupo but different shape. It has many islands and is 40 km from the Russian border.
We did a round trip of 500 km today.
There was a lookout point where we went and from there you could see the Russian hills in the distance.
At the village of Inari is the museum of th history of the Sami .
The family of Helena have been there for hundreds of years too, yet they are not Sami. They most likely came from Russia, hundreds of years ago. Finland once belonged to Russia anyway.
We had a tradtional meal at Helena's parents cook hut last night This also mst come from the Sami, as the cook hut resembles tee-pee, which looks like the Native American Indian. Helena's Dad said there is a relationship between them and the Sami people.
Yes why would there be so many tee-pee's here? You see them a lot here.
Every house has a cook hut or tee-pee. Others are simlple and others are more sophistocated, yet all have a fire in the middle on which they cook their food.
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