Summer in Lapland Finland - 24 Hours of SUN

In Finnish Lapland from June to mid July is a period of neverending sunshine, called the midnight sun. Lapland is located just north of the Arctic Circle in Finland and on this trip I joined a few other journalists from Europe to experience the neverending days of summer adventure in Levi, Rovaniemi and Ylläs Finland.
For more information on any of the places I visited check out the links below.
This Video is brought to you by Yllas, Levi & Rovaniemi Tourism Finland and @Finnair
Special Thanks to our local sponsors
Levi Finland www.levi.fi
Hotel Levi Panorama
Aurora Pyramids
Levi Golf
Levi Ski
King Crab House
Kino Safaris
Levi Husky Park
Elves Village
Yllas Finland www.visityllas.fi
Lapland Hotels Saaga
Sisu Outdoors
ArcticSkylight Lodge
Rovaniemi Finland
Arkitkum Museum www.arkitkum.fi
Restaurant Nabo www.nabo.fi
Photography Tours With Beyond Arctic www.beyondarctic.com
Santa Claus Village www.santaclausoffice.com
Kayaking, climbing and wildlife viewing with Wild About Lapland www.wildaboutlapland.com
Arctic Light Hotel www.arcticlighthotel.fi
Roka Wine Bar Http://www.rokawinebar.fi
Horseback riding at Laenlammentila Ranch www.laenlammen.fi
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:12 Levi Lapland
02:13 Aurora Pyramids
03:39 Levi Ski Resort
04:20 Levi Golf
05:40 Husky Park
08:16 Yllas Lapland
13:40 Rovaniemi Finland
#finland #lapland

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Could you sleep in a glass pyramid if the sun was shining all night long?

[@jimr654]

Yep! As long as no one was looking in. :D

[@onelovemon1784]

Yes. Especially if I was doing all those delightful adventures. And I would do the adventures you did. Horse riding at 11:00 pm. This is one of my favorite videos of yours. It was so diverse and included many pretty scenes, animals, water fun, hikes, rides, cafes, the 24hr experiences, your beauty and gentleness, sharing information, nicely paced. I know you did a lot of patience work to get this produced. I wish I could go on the same trip you did. Thank you.

[@alporatia4385]

First of all - thanks so much Alice for your wonderful video with highlights of Finnish Lapland at midsummer! Glad you enjoyed your adventures - welcome back another time for further explorations! Now as to your question, you surely noticed that the sun doesn't shine directly from above at night, rather it circles just above the horizon. But yes, at these "high" latitudes the annual cycle does present challenges of adjustment for biorythms and life. Midwinter is a low energy time when there is little or no sunlight in northern Lapland as opposed to midsummer with lots of energy and time to enjoy the great outdoors. Even in SW Finland where I live it can be difficult at first to fall asleep in May, until one adapts to the greatly increasing sunlight and few hours of twilight.

[@Resident-cb3yz]

100% if Finish people have to sleep. There is light 1/2 of year and more. Still you have to sleep.

[@MattinLapland]

Yes because I live here 😀 I do feel you didn’t get to experience local Lapland for that you need to go further North. Huskies are not native here so they are loathed by many as the farms expanded due to tourism.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

As a Finn, I have to say that your video is a better ad for Finland than the locals can ever do. Note that if you visit these same places in the middle of Winter, there will be zero sun visible. It's not totally dark all the time, though, because sunlight still bounces around in the atmosphere. It's like a multi-hour dusk directly following a multi-hour dawn and then a full night again.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you so much I have been in Norway’s Arctic circle in the winter and have experienced the Arctic night as well.

[@1watsonwatson]

So glad that me and my family emigrated from the UK to live in Finland in March 2020. I firmly believe that the globalists main goal this winter is to create an inflationary depression. I also suspect that they will try as hard as possible to stoke up hatred within society by playing different groups off against each other - classic cultural Marxism. I think that these smartphone alters will be used to warn people of rioting. Atomised, multicultural societies are more likely to self-destruct than places like Finland, where outside the Helsinki region, most people adopt the same cultural norms. Plenty here we should be doing in the UK kzbin.info/www/bejne/innTfZqEZ7uCbck

[@TKirahvi2]

I have seen some amazing video diaries and ads for Lapland which are done by the locals

[@MikkoRantalainen]

@@TKirahvi2 Interesting, could you link to one that you find amazing? (Or just give the full title of the video if you cannot add a link - I've never figured out the logic whenever KZbin allows URLs in the comments or not.)

[@itsJWPH]

Tosi hyvin videosta! (obviously not a Finn, but rather a Filipino learning their fascinating language at a walk's pace) The scenescapes right there are something of a natural bliss, and where one should appreciate in the midst of this current unstable chaos...

[@roger_is_red]

Alice Ford is pretty and very happy! NICE

[@dennisperry2398]

Alice, thank you so much for this Lapland video. Excellent photography and for sharing what you learned while on this adventure. Another beautiful part of our world.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

You’re so welcome and thank you so much for watching

[@researchpsychologists5515]

dearly its so joyful to see you again

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

You can spot when a youtuber knows about photography. good job.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you :)

[@osemarvin2847]

That was a really good video. I especially liked the way you handled the horses. You didn't try to touch their faces (as lovely they are, but they hate it - just like humans would). Instead you caressed them by carefully touching their necks and shoulders - which they absolutely love. Horse whisperer, you :)

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you so much. I absolutely adore horses and animals. My close friend owns a rescue in Florida and it’s one of my favorite places in the world.

[@davek4442]

Great video, we spent 3 weeks in Norway and loved the this part of the world. I always remember our hiking at midnight! Your documentary quality is world class! Thanks

[@georgespencer3973]

Alice, that was so good! You truly have a gift for making these videos. Exposure settings, composition, sound, lighting, background music… for each scene! Then editing! That is a TON of work. Oh, and those foals are adorable.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you George. I really appreciate that. And yes those foals melted my heart I did not want to leave

[@RynBrits]

I like these longer format videos’ gorgeous cinematography, thank you for sharing.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you so much! I am very happy to hear that, it is always a struggle to decide on breaking these videos up or leaving them long.

[@karljacobson7811]

Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing. Such a beautiful place.

[@pauljohnson1129]

Great video Alice took me back to my time in Iceland in the 80's with all the Sun 🌞 thank you

[@no1noone34]

Such a cinematic experience, a very well done video!

[@billyt7557]

Been following on IG. Was really looking forward to this video and I have to say it was even better than anticipated!

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Wow thank you so much Billy

[@scanpolar]

Great video ! After two weeks I am heading for Finland to enjoy Finnish autumn and forests.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

What a wonderful time to visit I hope you see the northern lights

[@uk2488]

Very beautiful great job 👍👍

[@marty17f]

Thanks Alice another great video.

[@MilaMan]

I was born in Lapland, Kemijärvi city. Now been in Oulu city since 1990. Love your reaction of Finland and Lapland 💕

[@juha-petrityrkko3771]

I visit Lapland every year for a few days as close to the summer solstice as conditions (holidays, clear skies) allow. It is my feast of the midnight sun.

[@D0N_J]

Thanks for sharing your experience, it’s so beautiful. I do hope to visit someday :)

[@tapanifriman331]

Thank you Alice for your wonderful Lapland advertising. I'm Finnish and I live in Helsinki but visited in Lapland several times but still, watching your video I found something new. But one thing stay... Magic of Lapland.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you so much. I just love hearing that. Finland is such a beautiful country. I look forward to my next visit.

[@Madis.T.]

Hello from Estonia🇪🇪 It was amazing to see Finland from your point of view and it's really beautiful there😊👍

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you. Hoping to visit Estonia soon too

[@PanuRikula]

Every year I forgot that it gets dark at night when you go to southern part of Finland as you live next to the artic circle.

[@1watsonwatson]

So glad that me and my family emigrated from the UK to live in Finland in March 2020. I firmly believe that the globalists main goal this winter is to create an inflationary depression. I also suspect that they will try as hard as possible to stoke up hatred within society by playing different groups off against each other - classic cultural Marxism. I think that these smartphone alters will be used to warn people of rioting. Atomised, multicultural societies are more likely to self-destruct than places like Finland, where outside the Helsinki region, most people adopt the same cultural norms. Plenty here we should be doing in the UK kzbin.info/www/bejne/innTfZqEZ7uCbck

[@2manysigns]

Very nice production !

[@PilotWanderlust]

Great share, Alice! Thanks!

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you

[@ashyoxon]

Awesome Alice, I love your happiness and adventures. Keep the travel videos coming.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thanks Ashley!! Any destinations you’d love to see

[@ashyoxon]

@@AliceFordAdventures Australia and New Zealand. My bucket list 😀

[@Secret4u2hear]

That was an amazing trip to Finland it's is gorgeous ❤❤

[@AliceFordAdventures]

It sure was thanks for watching

[@TheRayd700]

Fantastic video Thank you so much 😊

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you Ray!

[@overcooked4189]

thank you Alice. Your video in Finland is awesome. i am an Asian, it is always wanna going to the north. Finland‘s summer is definely one of my pick. thanks again, I subscirbed your channel and looking forward to watch your video again. good health.

[@andrewdecesare2529]

Awesome video, I hope Finland promotes the hell out of this. It's a great travel guide and from what I have found youtube, they don't have a big tourism presence. Keep it up champ.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thanks so much Andrew

[@thegrizzncamp]

Awesome video from Finland! Have a good friend from there. Nice to see some of the country.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you so much it’s a beautiful country

[@Rockxenez]

Welcome to Finland.

[@universeconsciouscitizensc592]

I grew up in Alaska. Having such long days is actually easy to adapt to. I always found myself just sleeping less, and doing more. If the winters were not so long and so dark (8 to 9 months), I'd still be living up there.

[@TheRayd700]

It would be a challenge but a fantastic experience.

[@elcaminanteyexplorador53]

Great video. Many thanks for sharing

[@Resident-cb3yz]

Just enjoy the night because winter is coming. Literally come back in winter. Sun does not up good. Still me and my kids are in the snow playing. Kids have to get used to darkness too. When i was kid i played in dark snow and there was nothing to afraid. No monster in snow and in darkness. In dark and in cold you learn to listen more and move more silent.

[@SallaMT]

Summer in Lapland is the best 🤩 Lovely that you visited my dear hometown #Rovaniemi ❤

[@AliceFordAdventures]

It certainly is :)

[@jasoncombs7545]

Beautiful place. Lots to do with relatively few people. Just my style

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Yes you will certainly not have crowds which makes it feel like real wilderness. You’d love it

[@ismooikarinen3106]

I love the way you presented my hometown Rovaniemi and all of Lapland... Thank you... When you come again I want to be with you and share these beauties with you.

[@1watsonwatson]

So glad that me and my family emigrated from the UK to live in Finland in March 2020. I firmly believe that the globalists main goal this winter is to create an inflationary depression. I also suspect that they will try as hard as possible to stoke up hatred within society by playing different groups off against each other - classic cultural Marxism. I think that these smartphone alters will be used to warn people of rioting. Atomised, multicultural societies are more likely to self-destruct than places like Finland, where outside the Helsinki region, most people adopt the same cultural norms. Plenty here we should be doing in the UK kzbin.info/www/bejne/innTfZqEZ7uCbck

[@kiekko673]

There’s a great Rovaniemi documentary called “Reindeer Spotting”. 😁

[@epic2105]

You should visit in the winter! It’s amazing

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Yes I have been to the Arctic region of Norway and stayed with reindeer herders it was unforgettable

[@maxmillion4216]

The glass Pyramid house was cool. Thanks for ride along Alice. I could live there.lol

[@Dinoxt12]

What a job you have, crazy cool...great video. I never really knew anything about Finland, now I do thanks to you, interesting country...likin' the bathing outfit, Wow.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you glad I could show you a new part of the world

[@andersslotte6415]

Love your sunglasses 😄

[@lolyjoycedomingo3459]

New subscriber here. The nothern lights always made me cried everytime I watched it a video. I can't described my feeling, it's soooo wonderful. O ! Thanks to God for this wonderful creation.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you Loly!

[@PHM00]

You get around!!!, Amazing video thanks for sharing your adventures ! P.S. well done as always

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you Patrick. I think the Every country in the Arctic Circle is going to have to be added to my summer travels

[@andersslotte6415]

And greetings from Finland 😉😉

[@dawnc5797]

This video came up as a recommendation and I'm glad it did because I really enjoyed it. I lived in Germany for a few years and would love to visit the Scandinavian countries at some point. Thank you for sharing your adventures and I look forward to watching more content. 😊

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thanks Dawn, I think you’ll enjoy my series on Norway then as well. It’s certainly a beautiful region

[@eemeliholopainengaming9598]

If your talking about Finland its not in Scandinavia

[@dawnc5797]

@@eemeliholopainengaming9598 true. I want to visit the whole area. 😊

[@alexfletcher9961]

Been to levi twice in winter, looks so different in summer hahah

[@AbhayVakil01]

Superb video ❤

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you

[@Paltse]

These types of videos that have Santa Park/what ever from Rovaniemi included invariably make me reminisce my eight months there. No, I was not in the team red helping Santa but one of the little elves wearing green in the military base next door.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Glad it brought back some memories. Hopefully good ones

[@Paltse]

@@AliceFordAdventures The best so far.

[@2011woodlands]

I was in Stockholm in mid July, it was like dusk for a few hours, but you could see fine without street lights. Finland is similar to Michigan's upper peninsula, which has a lot of people of Finnish descent.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

I wonder why so many Fins moved to Michigan

[@2011woodlands]

@@AliceFordAdventures the largest group of Finns outside of Finland are in the U.P. , northern Wisconsin & Minnesota, they left Finland from the 1870s to 1930s to escape Russia and economic opportunities like working in iron mines and owning their own farms. A lot of people still speak Finnish.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

@@2011woodlands wow thanks for that fun fact I had no idea

[@mikaveekoo]

@@2011woodlands Nobody left to escape Russia, believe me. 😁

[@junantuoma7869]

@@2011woodlands "Escape Russia".🤣

[@wtn]

Great video!!!👍👍👍

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you

[@luukas2660]

Just as a fun fact, Finland doesn't actually have any real "mountains" per se, instead the scenery is littered with fells like Levi. Once upon a time they were as high as the alps but have been eroded by glaciers and other factors to a fraction of their original glory. The ground around Levi and most of the other fells in the North is 1.9 billion years old, while for example the alps are only 65 million years old.

[@1watsonwatson]

So glad that me and my family emigrated from the UK to live in Finland in March 2020. I firmly believe that the globalists main goal this winter is to create an inflationary depression. I also suspect that they will try as hard as possible to stoke up hatred within society by playing different groups off against each other - classic cultural Marxism. I think that these smartphone alters will be used to warn people of rioting. Atomised, multicultural societies are more likely to self-destruct than places like Finland, where outside the Helsinki region, most people adopt the same cultural norms. Plenty here we should be doing in the UK kzbin.info/www/bejne/innTfZqEZ7uCbck

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you Luukas, love this fact. Finland is a very very old area of the world

[@teijaalanko5165]

Heii. Big thanks this you good video my country. Its very sweet you like Finlands. 🌺🍃🌺🌏🌅〰️〰️Good holiday and everything you. Thank you.👋

[@markolaitala477]

in midle of winter san rises at all.. it is macig too

[@kariturunen3163]

Nice :)

[@MrZiizeli]

Very nice video, thank You Alice. I've seen hundreds of these Lapland videos but so little did I know, they (we) raise or harvest FOXes also ... I am not sure if I like it or not, but I'm sure they vere abandoned or something, so it's ok.

[@ahmedabakar5166]

Hi 👋 came across.. from Sudan Africa 🌍💞

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Greetings!

[@Fritha71]

I didn't watch the entire video but if she didn't mention the "menace of summer", the huge amount of blood thirsty mosquitoes, well, be warned that they will hamper much of the activity, especially when evening falls...! It might look pretty outside but you wouldn't really want to venture outside for a long time at any cost, lol... Mosquito spray and special mosquito hats with a net surrounding the head are an absolute must! And you still have to endure the constant horrible noise they generate around you. Ugh! The best time to visit Lapland is AFTER the midnight sun-period, towards the end of July and early September with the fall foliage.

[@laughingmadmen]

Great video Alice, not sure when u would ever want to sleep! 🙂 As a solo traveler, was the language ever an issue? Could an English only person navigate this? Thank u!!

[@AliceFordAdventures]

They speak English in all the Scandinavian countries and are taught it in very early childhood so language is not an issue

[@StopNotBot]

osku da boss :D

[@normancarbajal5154]

Would be an adventure Alice! …

[@LoganHunter82]

What did you think about the rye bread?

[@daveblosser4658]

Thanks for the great Finland video. Did you see a lot of cross-country skiing ⛷️ places. It looked like there might be more there. Colorado (where I live) I think has more Downhill Skiing. Dave (GNP)

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Oh my gosh yes the whole country is like one giant x country ski trail and they have little warming huts in the forest

[@jukkakoponen5492]

@@AliceFordAdventures So true 😂😂 We Finns love skiing

[@karvanenpalli8508]

👍

[@harrikuusjarvi3795]

Lapland is also great place to go fishing. U can do also that like 24hour if u have stamina =D

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Yes I would have lived to add that to my trip

[@tosijjaan]

I would recommend visiting other places in Finland, for example Puolanka, Ristijärvi, Rautavaara or Kouvola

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Thank you Hank. This was in collaboration with Lapland but if I’m ever back I will certainly visit the areas you suggested

[@elffelfsson7360]

Just a second. Something doesn't fit. Where are the mosquitos?

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Hahah look more closely at my opening shot on camera

[@TKirahvi2]

As a Finn, I would argue that we don't grill hot dogs but sausages. And even that isn't that accurate description

[@AliceFordAdventures]

I was told this by two Finns which is why I included it and those people in the park were Finnish as well and also grilling sausages

[@handerbirdy7671]

Sauna, beer and some dry meat ..... Its all i need when iam at Kilpis at my father in law...

[@frankducett9]

It looks like you have quite an ample budget, I doubt many working people could afford this trip.

[@jattikuukunen]

Where did you hide all the mosquitoes? ;) Your effort in correct pronunciation shows. Ylläs was a bit off, but I don't blame you. :)

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Hahah in my skin I guess

[@dekergda]

The best summer in the world is in Poland :)

[@AliceFordAdventures]

I’ve never been

[@dekergda]

@@AliceFordAdventures If not now, then the next summer you must see :) I invite you. :)

[@AliceFordAdventures]

@@dekergda thank you

[@A-K_Rambler]

Coffee Stipend

[@Zarniwooper]

5:07 random hare

[@daniellarson3068]

Well - The ancestors come from there. However, it looks like I can do all that stuff in the Midwest just not at 1:00 AM.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

The landscape is very similar to northern US UP it reminded me of NH where I grew up too just no reindeer

[@daniellarson3068]

@@AliceFordAdventures Yeh - I grew up in the UP.

[@mikaveekoo]

Grilling up hot dogs is not a Finnish thing. Grilling up sausages is. 🤓

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Sausages, hot dogs potato ..potAto lol the same thing to me but yes you are right

[@ajssgt3061]

Jours bozouin de tout bouko i tout m'avi Alice Ford

[@-Jones]

350€ for a kuksa?!?!???! That’s just a robbery.

[@PikkuHukka79]

Wow..Prices gone high.. I got mine 50€ from small souvenir shop near Enontekiö few years ago.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

But the coffee is free.

[@Rockxenez]

I think you like rye bread.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

With butter but definitely not on a sandwich

[@jokuvain97]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@kiekko673]

That doesn’t make any sense. 😆

[@williambarros666]

LIAR!! Finland and Gernamy were ALLIED!!

[@AliceFordAdventures]

Only at the end of the war FInland was with Germany in the beginning

[@kognak6640]

@@AliceFordAdventures Finland had three wars. First winter war alone against Soviet Union 1939, Germany politically supporting Soviet side(infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop pact). Then Continuation War 41-44 against SU again alongside Germany. After armistice with SU in 1944, Finland had to push out German troops out of Northern Finland, this is Lapland War. There was a short period of phony war before hostilities started, this allowed civilians to get evacuated from Lapland often assisted by Germans. Both my parents were among them. In retaliation of starting the real war, Germans torched most buildings they could access. Rovaniemi got completely destroyed, not even churches got spared which in general were left intact.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

@@kognak6640 yes I know. So how is what I said not correct. The Germans burned down Rovaniemi when they left the country in retaliation for Finland no longer having their support.

[@kognak6640]

@@AliceFordAdventures I wasn't correcting you in any way. Just providing a context for people who don't know history of this area in WW2. Lapland war is hardly known outside Finland.

[@AliceFordAdventures]

@@kognak6640 oh Thank you yes I learned a lot at Arkitikum there where they have diagramas of before and after the war of the city. As an American I learned almost nothing about Finland or Scandinavia’s involvement in the war

[@radisson8627]

That was awesome Alice. Thanks for sharing. It always been on my bucket list to experience the midnight sun. The Scandinavian countries are for the books although we have a huge territory to discover here in North America. It is good to go somewhere else from time to time... ☯️🏔🥾👍🇨🇦⛺️