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Sodankyl\u00e4-Sompio has all modern amenities and technology, but nature is very much present. Many locals still fish, hunt, pick mushrooms and berries, just as their ancestors did for centuries in the past. You\u2019ll have a chance to meet these authentic locals and see how they live.<\/p>\n
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Life in Sodankyl\u00e4-Sompio was earlier regulated by the natural cycle and the eight seasons of Lapland. There were particular tasks for each season, and men and women had their own roles. One also had to be brave, open-minded and strong. The people of Sodankyl\u00e4-Sompio valued hard work in particular, as well as physical and mental stamina.<\/p>\n
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Samuli Paulaharju (1875\u20131944) was a Finnish collector and writer of folklore. He rambled barefoot across Finland and interviewed people about their life. Paulaharju made several trips to Sompio and in 1939 he published a book Sompio \u2013 Luiron korpien vanhaa el\u00e4m\u00e4\u00e4<\/em> that is considered to be his main work.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/visitsodankylasompio.fi\/en\/project\/samuli-paulaharju-sompio\/” button_text=”Read more” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”fold” animation_direction=”right” animation_intensity_fold=”20%” animation_starting_opacity=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_size__hover=”null” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover=”null” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover=”null” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover=”null” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover=”null” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover=”null” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover=”null” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover=”null” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover=”null” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover=”null” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover=”null” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover=”null” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover=”null” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover=”null” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover=”null” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover=”null” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover=”null” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover=”null” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover=”null”] [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_portfolio fullwidth=”off” posts_number=”100″ include_categories=”30″ show_categories=”off” show_pagination=”off” hover_overlay_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.16)” _builder_version=”4.16″ pagination_font_size_tablet=”51″ pagination_line_height_tablet=”2″ custom_css_overlay_icon=”display:none;” global_colors_info=”{}”] A modern, living wilderness Sodankyl\u00e4-Sompio has all modern amenities and technology, but nature is very much present. Many locals still fish, hunt, pick mushrooms and berries, just as their ancestors did for centuries in the past. You\u2019ll have a chance to meet these authentic locals and see how they live. Nature provided for the hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53454","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsodankylasompio.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsodankylasompio.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsodankylasompio.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsodankylasompio.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsodankylasompio.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53454"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/visitsodankylasompio.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57012,"href":"https:\/\/visitsodankylasompio.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53454\/revisions\/57012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsodankylasompio.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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