Next spot on the trip was to visit Suomu and Kemijarvi, which are small towns in eastern Lapland. We were very excited to catch our first glimpse of wild reindeer!!!! Of course by the end of the trip, we had seen hundreds of them and they weren't a huge deal by that point, but I recall our excitement at seeing the first few of them. There are approximately 250,000 wild reindeer in northern Finland and it was a sight to see.
This area was particularly nice, with the Suomu fell and the lakes and bogs. We also walked around the town center of Kemijarvi and tried our luck at spotting some northern lights. Sad to say we were not successful at seeing northern lights this trip, it was too cloudy, so we will have to return some other time.
Of course, we did some hiking and had a wonderful visit.
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