Journey through Swedish Lapland

For our last trip in Scandinavia while we’re here we decided to go to Swedish Lapland with four of our friends.

Last Sunday we woke up very early to catch a flight from Stockholm to Luleå in the north of Sweden. We flew with Norwegian Air and had a nice flying experience watching the sun rise while we started from Stockholm 🙂

In Luleå, we took a train which brought us to Kiruna, a city even more north. By choosing the train instead of flying all the way up to Kiruna, we saved some money and it was just wonderful to see the snowy landscape through the windows. 4,5 hours later we arrived in Kiruna and it was sooooooooooo freezing cold! Our apps showed a temperature of -18 degrees celsius and the real feel indicator said it feels like -28 degrees – and it really did!

Views from the train

We stayed in Kiruna for four nights, in a hostel called “Spis”. The room was okay but the hostel had an awesome and very big kitchen and a sauna which could be used for free! We enjoyed staying there so much 🙂

On our first evening we just went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for a coconut curry and enjoyed a relaxed evening in the sauna. On the next moring, we picked up a car we had rented the day before and drove to a small village of Sami people, the indiginous people of Lapland.

Unfortunately the Sami weren’t there (I guess they live somewhere else during winter time) and there was not much to do, but we had an awesome roadtrip through the snow anyways! 🙂 We hoped to see a wild moose or two, in fact we were so lucky and saw 13 (!!) mooses standing on or near the street!

Did you guys know that male mooses loose their antlers every year in winter to save energy resources and regrow it in spring? Such cool animals!

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Ken