The meeting of the new year in Finland is something special, because Finland is the birthplace of Santa Claus! What can be even more New Year's? Here you are waited by snow-covered valleys, trips on deer sleds, merry festivities, a meeting with Santa Claus and many unforgettable impressions!
And Christmas in Finland is generally a special event and a favorite holiday of the Finns, who are always happy to share their wonderful mood with the guests.
How to celebrate the New Year in Finland?
Finns begin to prepare for the New Year long before the holiday. Pre-holiday fuss, which begins in October, helps the people of this country to survive the dark and cold autumn faster, adjusts them to a festive mood.
The Christmas season in Finland officially begins with the first Sunday of Advent. This period of the Christmas fast lasts four weeks. Numerous ceremonies and local customs are timed to him. On the first day of fasting in Lutheran churches, you can hear the tunes of "Hosanna" by Vogler, across the country Finns hold church concerts, Christmas colorful garlands are lit in the streets, shop windows and houses. The central streets of cities and at all turn into a kingdom of lanterns. A very beautiful fairy-tale spectacle can be seen on the Christmas streets (Yolukatu), which are available in almost every city in the country.
The New Year celebration is almost the same as the Christmas celebrations, there is also a Christmas tree, delicious dishes on the table. Even for the New Year, Finns tend to speculate! Finnish fortune-telling is somewhat reminiscent of the Russians. To find out the fate for the coming year, they melt the wax or tin on fire and pour out into cold water. Frozen figures, which are brought to the fire, must, reflecting on the wall, predict the future.
The Finnish New Year is celebrated joyfully and noisily. Everywhere there are colorful lanterns, thundering firecrackers and crackers, fire fires, around which various fairy-tale characters gather.
If you want to celebrate the New Year in Finland, tour operators are happy to give you this opportunity. You can settle in Lapland in a cozy cottage near the fireplace and enjoy the tranquility. You can celebrate a holiday in a fashionable ski resort, in a chic cottage in the center of Helsinki. In Finland, you will find a variety of winter entertainment, from snowmobiles and skis to canine and reindeer teams. If you are afraid of freezing, then the famous Finnish sauna will certainly warm you!
And in Kemi every year there is a snow and ice festival, where a real ice hotel is being built. Particularly frost-resistant can take a chance and spend the night in one of the rooms of this hotel in an ice bed.
New Year Tours: Lapland
If you want to please the children, then be sure to visit Lapland, in the homeland of Santa Claus. In the village of Santa Claus and in Santa Claus,
New Year tours to Lapland will give you fabulous spectacles of virgin nature beyond the Arctic Circle, fascinating northern lights, skiing and sledging, reindeer riding and visiting deer farms, go-kart on ice, safari on huskies and snowmobiles, acquaintance with Sami and shaman songs, a real Finnish sauna, winter fishing, visiting the northernmost zoo of the world Ranua and many other unforgettable impressions!
A trip to Finland on New Year's Day will definitely give you a lot of pleasant impressions, as well as an excellent opportunity to celebrate a holiday that everyone is familiar with in a new environment!