Publishing its recommendations for 2017, premium travel and guidebook brand Lonely Planet ranks Finland third on its Best in Travel 2017 list of countries. Finland is the only European nation to make it into the top ten.
Several new sauna buildings have impressively transformed parts of the Helsinki waterfront, increasing the number of public saunas where visitors and locals can go for an authentic Finnish sauna experience – and a bracing dip in the Baltic Sea.
The Polar Night Counter shows how long kaamos, the season with no sunrise, lasts in northern Finland. It also shows how long is left before the winter solstice.