Trip to Koli, Finland

Koli is one of the most famous places in Soutern part of Finland. Koli sets up some kind of standard for Finnish nature and mostly if you have lived or stayed enough in Finland, you need to visit in Koli at least once, so you know what people are talking about. Koli is in the middle of nowhere in that sense, that most biggest cities in Finland (which are not actually that big), like Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Oulu are not very close to Koli, so if you wish to visit in Koli, you probably need to plan your trip well and reserve several days to achieve Pielinen (lake) and Koli itself (some kind of big rocky hill).

For me, I thought that I would like to spend time with relaxing and figuring out about new job and old job and about past year when building a house. I thought, that I need time to relax, so I was first thinking about Lapland. I have been there so often when I was young, so I have some kind of companionship and mutual understanding with Lapland, so it is somehow like going to home when visiting in Lapland. This time I just didnt have totally one week time to travel, so I was needed to decide some closer option and if I dont remember totally wrong, from Helsinki to Koli it was probably something like 500 km or something, so in that sense very reasonable driving time. Even by using small and not so cosy, but fast enough sport car (heh heh heh).

Well... I arrive Koli and first of all I visit top of Koli with my Camera. I saw lake Pielinen (in the picture) and I saw ferry in the lake closing. Then I thought that I will go with that, so no matter where it comes from, I will came also from there... so I will drive the opposite to lake and spend some sunny nice day in the deck of that ship, drinking soda or something (beer) and watching views.... Goddamned, that I will do :-)

Later on I need to say, that I really did it.