(voor Nederlands, scroll naar beneden) Getting married on Saturday ... and on Sunday morning to the airport: not the French Riviera but destination Arctic Circle. A little cooling is always welcome, not? "What is that?" they ask at the check-in. These are 2 sleds of 30 kg with everything to survive independently for 12 days in negative temperatures ... Eyebrows are frowning, so great, a honeymoon! Lapland, the region above the Arctic Circle, stretches across 4 countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland and a piece of Russia. We choose the Swedish part of Lapland: rugged mountains, arctic tundra with valleys full of birch and pine forests. The area is a pristine wilderness, by far the largest in Western Europe. We draw our sleds (pulkas), walking on snowshoes, from Ritsem in Stora Sjoffalets NP, 130km north to Abisko. It
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