In this arctic region, located over 300km above the Arctic Circle, nature and climate have always affected people’s lives and livelihood. The arctic conditions have affected our culture too in many ways.

Today, the nature offers the livelihood for reindeer herders and fishers. In the old days it’s importance used to be even more important before the service sector started to employ people. Even though the conditions are quite extreme, in winter temperature may drop below -30 celcius degrees, it is totally possible to live here and even practice small scale agriculture, even though summer is quite short.

In our destination all the seasons are very strong. Winter is the longest, being 6 months. The mid-winter is very beautiful time, the soft light of Polar Night paints the landscape in blue and pink. Spring starts in April and is full of intense light, but there is still snow on the ground. When winter is dark and long, summer is full of light and relatively short. Amazingly the plants have adapted themselves to this climate and develop very quickly, thanks to the sun light all day round.