My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

SWEDEN | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [1140] | View Smaller Image

The Sami people are the indigenous people from Lapland. In Sweden only the Sami people can own Reindeer, which they use for food, clothing, trade and labour. They are really resourceful and in the past even used the Reindeer’s intestines as a form of thread to sew with.

Tags: snow, lapland, reindeer

In northern Swedish Lapland in the winter it is dark almost the whole time except for a glimpse of dusky light with some areas experiencing snowfall for eight months of the year with temperatures dropping down to -40 degrees Celsius.

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Sami herders work and live very closely to their Reindeer, which has made the Reindeer very friendly, unafraid, and inquisitive of humans unlike farmed deer in other parts of the world. The Sami herders keep warm by making a fire in their wooden huts with the Reindeer roaming around outside. The Sami hut has a sloping roof to let the snow slowly slide off the sides, with a small hole in the top for the smoke to escape.

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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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