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FINLAND
WORDS & PHOTOS Thomas Oschwald
There are many reasons to fall in love with Finland – the land, the people and their sincere kindness, the culture, the adventure. However for paddlers it is certainly the lakes and the archipelago of Finland which get our hearts beating a bit faster. The 188,000 lakes of Finland are so vast that Finland has the largest fresh water surface area of all the countries in the world, and the world’s most multitudinous archipelago, with an estimated 70,000 islands, spread along the coast. At every corner there are pristine shorelines and islands to discover. It’s a land for big and small adventures and probably one of the last wilderness areas in Europe.
