Exchanging the south of Europe with the north (for 23 days)

In the Sami museum

The midnight sun in Kiruna

We are again in an exchange trip, this time in Sweden. We have chosen the northern country of Europe, as coming from the southern, in every sense. We stayed some days in Stockolm, and then we came here in the north, over the Arctic circle. It was an old dream of my husband, to see the midnight's sun. And we saw it!

We even lived with it, finding big difficulties to sleep through the eternal day... The sun does not set at all, it goes near the horizon at 0.00 and then begins to go up again.
We stayed a hole week in Kiruna, this town made by the mines. We went to walk in the national park Abisko. It is a wonderful place really, around a river that comes from a torrent and becomes a lake, between the tundra and the taiga, with colors unseen by me at least until then. We visited the mine of course, and were very impressed by the work it is done there, over 1000 m deep into the earth. We went to to Ice hotel, that you can visit even in summer, there is a sample under low temperature. We learn about the Sami people and visited every possible museum about them, and another wood and footpath going to the biggest mountain of Sweden (we have not been there).
Today we leave for Stocholm again, where we stay for 10 more days.