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ARCTIC NORWAY

Jutting above the Arctic Circle is a storybook land of reindeer, huskies, stunning vistas, ice, and the Sami culture.
On a clear winter night, colorful swirling Northern Lights (Aurora borealis) paint the sky. Summer is a contrasting tune of a seemingly endless Midnight sun. It is well worth a journey to witness this rare and wonderful part of our world.
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Feeding reindeer lichen
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Feeding reindeer lichen

REINDEERKautokeino

  • Feeding reindeer lichen
  • Reindeer are herded by the nomadic Sami culture, who reside in northern Noway, Sweden and Finland, and on Russia's Kola Peninsula.
  • In yesteryears, white reindeer were symbolic of wealth. Donned in white apparel, proud owners drove their all-white reindeer team to town.
  • Crucial to Sami subsistence, reindeer furnish meat, hides, and transportaton.
  • Thon Hotel's ice bar in Kautokeino
  • Thon Hotel in Kautokeino has an outdoor theater, hot tub and sauna, and a small golf course made of ice.
  • Finnish bartender at Thon Hotel peeks through an ice sculpture.
  • Sami sampler: top L - R - Whitefish, elk sausage, cured reindeer,<br /> cloudberry atop goat cheese, love fruit (not indigenous), barely cured reindeer, smoked reindeer with seaweed, reindeer tenderloin, reindeer sausage served on a slate plate
  • Delectable reindeer tenderlion complemented with asparagus, cauliflower, broccoli, potato, and glazed carrot.
  • Not a lavvo (typical Sami hut) but a gashti hut where a young Sami woman builds a fire with birch logs.
  • Sewing a reindeer pouch
  • Brewing birch tea in the gashti hut while snow trickles down from the open apex.
  • A silversmth at work in the Juhl Silver Gallery in Kautokeino.
  • Afghanistan exhibit in Juhls' Silver Gallery<br /> The Juhls traveled to that nation to learn more about other nomadic tribes.
  • Regine Juhl, co-owner of Juhls' Silver Gallery, assembles a wall collage. As a young German girl during WWII, she fled the country with her parents, Fascinated with her reading and pictures of Norway, she later moved there and lived with the Sami people before shortly meeting her Danish husband, The Samis asked the couple to be their silversmiths. The passion grew.
  • An antique silver pin
  • A farm girl, Regine Juhl keeps a few sheep outside her gallery.
  • This sheep seeks shelter from the snow.
  • Using an auger, a Sami man drills a hole for ice fishing.
  • Johans and I rode on his snow mobile to a spot he chose on the Alta River, a top salmon habitat. Amidst a heavy snowfall, our sim was to catch river trout.
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