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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Phoebe Smith

Bear-watching and beyond: six of the wildest adventure holidays in Europe

A close encounter with Finland’s brown bears.
A close encounter with Finland’s brown bears. Photograph: Ben Illis

Finland: Watching bears, owls and wolves in lakeland

A six-and-a-half-hour train ride from Helsinki, the town of Kajaani is the unofficial capital of Finland’s Lakeland region. The number of perfectly serene bodies of water here, ripe for paddleboarding, kayaking and myriad watersports, easily outnumber the settlements dotted between them.

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