Apart from 500 souls waiting for the fish to bite or enjoying communal saunas, Inari has a terrific museum covering Sami indigenous culture and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit there. Maybe a tough life for these people whose lives are basically about reindeer herding across now three countries, Russia, Finland and Norway, but constraining their lives to fit national boundaries and so called modern western style living demands does raise quite complex issues. The southerners in Helsinki with their fast paced living and their demands for hydro-electricity continue to raise complex political issues, especially given climatic change issues about emissions. Like Australia, apparently, Finland is a large polluter on a per person basis and whilst they would like more hydro systems, it causes problems for the salmon and other fish environments.
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