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The Hotel Kakslauttanen, apart from being very difficult to pronounce, has some bizarre features for its guests. It is home to an ice bar, an ice chapel and a snow restaurant. The former two are built every winter for guests, perhaps even the latter as well. Their website is not clear on this. It also has log cabins, husky "safaris," - as if anything in the Arctic Circle should rightfully be called a safari - and ice fishing. All of this sounds like some rather chilly winter fun, but it is not too bizarre. The most bizarre thing is one of the options guests have for rooms.
There is an area of the Kakslauttanen called the "Igloo Village." The Igloo Village is home to some traditional igloos, icy snow on the outside and warm on the inside. It is also home to some seriously revealing igloos that, while allowing you a look at the northern lights from the comfort of your room, allow you to see out and other guests and random wildlife to see in. These igloos are made entirely of glass. It is not as if they are far from one another, either. Sure, it is cool to lie in bed and watch the aurora borealis I bet. It is probably not very cool to have a Yeti staring in at you. (Yes, I am aware that Yetis live in the Himalayas. Just picture it anyway.) The one redeeming feature is that it is probably too freaking freezing for anyone to bother spying on you.
Nice quirky piece about the Hotel Kakslauttanen. We organise tours there if you are interested and in particular the Lapland Igloo Village. The glass igloos are sufficiently distant to stop you from being spied on from the other igloos and the curtains they have are enough to keep you from prying eyes while you are sleeping. You only need to worry about low flying wildlife if you are very modest (there are no aircraft from memory) and they also have a glass teepee (laavo in the local Sami language). They also do a Reindeer Safari, though as you point out with temperatures dropping to as low as -30 Celsius at times, this is not the African Savannahs, though it is certainly for people who want an adventure!
ReplyDeleteid like to go there if you have nudist tours
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