| It was the last day of my trip. I didn't have any plans so I strolled around
Ylläs relaxing and enjoying the atmosphere of the area, and going shopping as well. |
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Ylläs doesn't have anything special but quiet nature; however, it's the best for a person, who lives in a big city, like me. |
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● Äkäslompolo Lake I could see the Mt.Ylläs for skiing far from there. Very open!! At night, it was really dark, |
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and I could see around 360 degrees of night sky for the Northern Lights. And during the day, cross-country skiing and skating spree!! Perfect!!  |
The taiga, near the road, was covered with the snow beautifully looking as if it was sugar icing. There were some snow fields with much less trees. |
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I could see a family of trees; a big one, a medium sized one, and small baby ones... Pretty!! This is THE landscape of Lapland.!!   |
● The 1st Gift Shop There were lots kinds of local gifts so that many customers |
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for Northern Lights or skiing were there. I got a pretty wooden mug cup, like the one I used at the reindeer farm a day ago.  |
Outside, there were pretty wooden dolls of Sami, local people.   |
● The 2nd Gift Shop It was smaller than the 1st one, which is maybe because there were much less varieties of gifts there. |
| Also there were much fewer customers. But I got a T-shirt with my favourite print on it.  |
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● K-Market It's one of the biggest local supermarkets in Finland. I saw them not only Ylläs |
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but in Helsinki and on the way to Ylläs. The store was very interesting
to me, Japanese. Unlike in Japan, It had just one entrance that opens automatically strangely |
| when a person get closed to it. In Japan, doors usually slide sideways
but here it opened, like doors with nobs. And there was also just one exit by the cashier. |
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Cashiers were conveyer belt style unlike in Japan. Not only K-Market but others were the same with conveyer belt with only one entrance and exit. It looks like Costco in Japan.    |
To be continued!!
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