We tried living in a remote cabin in Lapland, Sweden

[@calbackk]

Some sauna lessons from a Finn: 1. Warm the sauna to a least 60C before starting your sauna bath. The right temperature is a matter of taste, but more than 80C is generally not necessary, particularly if you are not used to the sauna culture. 2. Usually we use no colthes in the sauna. Of course there might be exceptions if everyone (like foreigners) is not comfortable being naked. 3. The warm water is for washing. There is usually a small woden bucket for cold water to throw on the stones. 4. Don´t sit in the sauna longer than feels comfortable. Get out in between, or ideally take a dip in a nearby body of water (In winter time you can try rolling yourself in the snow). 5. Repeat this cycle a few times. After the last warming up, wash yourself using the warm water, then take one last dip in the water, or take a cold shower if you dont have anywhere to dip. 5. Dont enter the sauna anymore after this, or you will start sweating again. But sit down, relax and open a beer.

[@macjonte]

Good summary. I would like to add it’s quite cold by the floor, you can have your water resistant speaker at the bottom and phone outside the room to have some good Finnish rock while getting warm from the cold swim.

[@jonasfermefors]

Normally for a sauna you would wait to go in until it's at least 60 degrees and then you use a bit of water to get it as hot as you want it. As the humidity increases the sense of heat increases, so too much water isn't recommended especially for beginners. It's the reason why steam saunas are a lot colder than the Scandinavian variety.

[@Xzeebo]

Amazing video! Just a tip for the next time you're cooking on a fire. You need to wait for the fire to burn down into smoldering coals to get an nice, even cook. :)

[@parkerbryant1412]

Nature is amazing, I love to see different parts of the world through your videos. I hope to visit Sweden and Norway one day.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

I hope you can too! 😊 experiencing nature in different parts of the world is one of the best parts of traveling 😍

[@pw5803]

Just discovered your channel. I live in north of Sweden myself but not that far north. A sauna with 80 - 90 degrees C you are supposed to sit in while wet for a short while, then you get out and cool of quite quickly in a lake or cold water and then go in to the sauna again. It exercises the bloodvessels and the heart, very good for all of your body, immunesystem and stress-related symptoms. Fun and relaxing to watch you travel.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you and welcome to the channel 🥰 We love your country! I would love to experience the sauna in such extreme temperatures. The benefits are amazing that it surprises me how other cultures haven’t adopted it as health ritual. I would love to have access to a sauna even once a week. This trip really inspired me to build a sauna in our mountain home in Greece but the cost of the machine is quite high here since it’s such a specialty item.

[@pw5803]

@@MariaOliviaTravel Lovely to hear. You can build a quite cheap sauna. There's plenty of videos on KZbin how to do it. It doesn't have to be expensive. In sweden every swimmingpool (indoors) have a sauna and a cold shower. Almost every cottage in the country aswell. Hope you can experience it because the health-benefits are uniqe. =)

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

@@pw5803 I will look up some videos and see if I can manage to build something 😊 thank you for the advice.

[@blitz3408]

Good choice on the ice cream boat. Swedish classic😊

[@hap89square21]

The scenery is absolutely stunning! Thank you for this great video.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you for watching 😊🙏

[@AzulinhoAzulinho]

Hey girls, nice to catch up with what youre up to, looks great! Keep the interesting coming!

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Nice to hear from you 🥰 We almost went to Scotland again last month but unfortunately the plans weren’t quite aligning 😢

[@elincarlsson6388]

Hi! I really like your videos! Just found this channel and think I'll check more of it! A helpful tip for the future: Do not try to start a fire with that much wood initially, what happens is you smother the fire so it dies. Instead, take a small wood piece or pieces and ball up some newspaper that you light first and under the wood, a fire starter is good but a combination of that inside a ball of paper is the best. (The liquid acctually ruins the flavour and is not as good as a fire starter.) When that small piece of wood is burning then you add more and bigger logs untill you have a proper fire. For cooking food wait untill the wood is no longer burning with high flames before putting anything on it, best when it's glowing and also using acctual coal in combination with wood would be great, you want those beautiful glowing embers for cooking food, it can be tricky but adding a log when embers are glowing bright to keep the heat going until the food is done is a good idea, (same with sauna.)

[@Vikinggirl1679]

Hi there . Love your travels in Sweden. Looks beautiful. I live in The U.S. in the state of Minnesota. My grandparents came from Sweden. I hope to visit one day. Have you guys heard of the Swedish band ABBA ? They were huge, and b i mean huge in the 70s and 80s. They hzve a museum in Ztockholm that is awesome. So ms y artifacts of theirs to see and you Can even stand on a stage with their hollograms and sing with them. Check it out. Would love to see you guys there. Take care

[@Keiseru]

It's been nice following your journey! Thank you for the tour!

[@christianasampson2852]

Three days in a magnificent place, what a great place for an outdoor meal. That top bedroom looks amazing, I’m only 5ft 2” I never have to duck or crouch anywhere, the sauna looked very cool Really lovely video ladies, enjoy yourselves xx

[@datalasse]

Great video! It's interesting to watch people from abroad enjoying Sweden and what expectations they got.

[@lassam333]

The landscape and the nature are absolutely beautiful! Great drone views! The smoked salmon looked very delicious. I've been to a 90°C sauna, but only for a short while. Hope you enjoyed it.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you Michael 🥰 Such a stunning landscape for sure! Did the 90C sauna make you feel like you were roasting? 🥵 I felt like that at 50C haha but I would definitely want to try a 90C one.

[@lassam333]

90°C was almost like roasting, but it is somewhat bearable (only for around 10 minutes) when it's dry heat. As soon as there was an infusion with lots of towel waving, I had to flee.

[@citizenkane4831]

What a lovely video. And i really did love your presentation of Sarek national park, yes it is big. But what you also should visit is the s c Lapporten in swedish or in english the samigate.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you for your kind words 🙏😊 We’ll definitely have to come back to explore more of the stunning Swedish nature 😍 Lapporten looks beautiful as well!

[@bmwknappen]

Hey! You are not supposed to grill on open fire! You wait for the flames to die, and then you cook on top of the glowing coals! But you didnt seem to starve!

[@Xman-lg6sn]

Thanks for sharing your traveling experience once again

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you xman 🥰

[@andreachejullianne1522]

my goodness i just got home .. and i saw this..the best gorgeous couple😍😍😍😍....thank you so much.. you guys are amazing. .. .. 😘😘😘😘...

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you Andreache, I’m glad our video gave you a nice surprise 🥰❤️

[@andreachejullianne1522]

@@MariaOliviaTravel ur welcome ladies 😘😘😘😘

[@Janduin45]

Sauna pro tip: Once you've been in the sauna for a while and worked up a decent sweat, before throwing on the next ladle of water on the rocks pour a splash of beer or pilsner in the water.

[@jurgen4466]

Hello Ladies! Great to hear from you again and see your nice adventures from Sweden! Lovely hike and stunning nature and good weather, thats perfect. Hope you like it! Myself I love the nature, the streams and the tranquility it gives. In the future try visit some higher areas with seasonal differences, below the plateue you have summer 🌿🌞and climbing over the edge you go into winter 😀❄️ That is a spectacular experience. Your meal seemed very tasty. Its delicious to eat food from open fire. You should try the fish char, loach or trout if you have not. I am not sure what name you use. We call it röding! Among my favorite fish to eat! 😋 How was the sauna? You didnt tell us your experience of the heat and steam. I love sauna, you get so relaxed and feel like a new oerson afterward, fresh and rejuvinated. In the winter we go out and roll around in snow in between rhe warm heat visits in rhe sauna! 😊 if no snow, we use cold shower or bath! Trully make you feel alive! Did you like the sauna experience? ♨️ or to much 🥵? Have a lovely journey! 🇸🇪

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

It was amazing to experience all this beautiful nature 😍 next time we are in Sweden we’ll have to do the hike over the plateau to experience the changes in season. On our drive to Norway (next video) we actually experienced major temperature drop about 45 mins before the border cross. I think we were at a high elevation. I looked up the fist I don’t believe we have tried it yet, but it looks really good 😊 The sauna experience was great! I even looked up how much it would cost to build one at my family’s mountain home in Greece haha. I got to say though the first day we did the sauna it was really difficult to stay in the heat, as 2 days before we were in Greece where for 3 months we’ve been experiencing 30-40 C weather almost every day and I think my body was chronically overheated 🥵 haha. However, the night we filmed this video, was the first time in months that I felt cold and wore a sweater. Which made the sauna experience amazing!!! 🥰😍 I definitely want to try it in the winter where you jump in the cold water of the snow 😁

[@jurgen4466]

Try the fish in Norway, they have it as well I belive. Hope you enjoyed your visit in Sweden and welcome back 😊

[@jellycoding]

Thanks for the great video!

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you so much 🙏🥰

[@theodorandren6850]

When cooking over open fire you wanna let thw first 2-3 logs basically burn into glowing coal before you put another log or 2 on it and then start grilling over the open flame, you get a higher better and more even heat that way.

[@lennartvestin5124]

👍😀👍I hope you will come back to Sweden and explore the southern parts too. Very nice video!

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you 🥰 we will definitely be back to explore the southern parts of Sweden 😁

[@lennartvestin5124]

​@@MariaOliviaTravel Vadstena, Mt Omberg, Tåkern(bird lake) Gränna, Kleven (near Gränna, they have small cottages), Visingsö (island in Vättern) , Huskvarna are some places round where I live that could be of interest. Best time of the year late May to June before midsommer eve. July is our vacation month and in general rainy if it is not to hot. But the weather is never predictable as round the Mediteranian sea. Please be wellcome back to Sweden.

[@ingvartorma9789]

You were only in southern Lapland and many miles to go to northern Lapland where I live and the city is called Kiruna. Then NEVER light wood with lighter fluid if you are going to cook over the fire, the lighter fluid adds flavor to what you are cooking. toxic and carcinogenic. Then started cooking the food before the fire really took off and gave better heat. Then you should have greased the grill with cooking oil before you put the fish there, so the fish would never have stuck. Then when it comes to the sauna, the bucket is for having cold water in and throwing the stones. The tank for water that is heated by the fire from the sauna units is added to mix with cold water when you have to wash and bathe at all, as you explain in the video.

[@MiddleAgedSwedeGoesForAWalk]

Just found your channel, great video! It's just one thing, I don't really want to seem like a know-it-all, but in the name of fire safety I do want to suggest that you never do what you did at 9:02, there has been cases where the fire travels back along the the sprayed lighter fluid into the bottle, causing it to explode with disastrous consequences.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Oh wow! Yes, thank you so much for sharing that I didn’t think that would be possible. Never doing that again 😅

[@NennaC]

If you use fire liquid, always spray it on the logs before you light the fire. To spray the liquid, as shown here, on an open flame is very dangerous. The flame can spread up to your bottle and make it explode very fast.

[@F1rstWorldNomaD]

Standard commercial saunas, like in public bath houses etc are about 80 degrees C. These are a bit lower in temprature in order to work for everyone, but 90 degrees is the traditional temprature. Youre not supposed to be in there for too long. You sit in there for a little while, then go out and roll around in the snow or swim in a lake, then you go back in again and repeat.

[@commandersune5432]

90 degrees is very hot in a wood heated sauna, since the air moisture is much higher that in an electric heated one. 60-70 C is normal temperature in a wood heated sauna.

[@jennystrandqvist1568]

Suppose to let those Ice cream boats melt a little. It is quite rich cream- ice cream but yes if eat them when fully frozen it like normal ice cream.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Oh that’s good to know for next time we visit 😋😋

[@ulricaandrae4381]

Are you coming back to Sweden some day? You should really visit the province of SMÅLAND, down south. Lots of ppl from Småland migrated to the USA during the 1800s. My city, Eksjö, is one of the few remaining wooden towns with buildings from the 14th century. Småland is also where the author of Pippi Longstocking is born. I would gladly give you a tour! 😃

[@tobiasnordqvist882]

You did missunderstand the meening of the water in the sauna. You pour it in the water container to get warm water to wash yourself in.

[@rCRTEr]

You missed Sarek one of Sweden pearls! But yes I understand and you made the correct choice to not go in there if you do not know how to survive there. But I have seen Sarek when I hiked into the wild. I must say that is nature at its best!

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Yes we would have loved to see it in person. If the pictures look this fantastic, I’m sure in person it’s just stunning! We will need to train and come back 😍

[@F1rstWorldNomaD]

Ice cream boats are the best 🥰

[@erik....]

When cooking over fire I find it best to wait until you get a good amount of embers or whatever it's called and not a lot of flames. Much more consistant heat and not burning the food.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Yes you’re right 😊 I would usually wait but we were trying to recreate how they were cooking the salmon in Finland were the flames were directly on the salmon. Surprising theirs didn’t look as brown as ours 😅

[@martinostlund1879]

You did good, but next time, if possible, use smaller wood and put them closer together when lighting the fire to make it easier to catch.

[@shefles]

I forgot to turn of my sauna once. It got to 143C and I burned my hand when I held on to the door handle ._.

[@MiddleAgedSwedeGoesForAWalk]

The sauna we had at our home when I was a kid ran on a timer and SHOULD turn it self off, but of course the one time that timer malfunctioned was when we went on a vacation, when we got home a week later the sauna was still going, trying its best to heat up the entire basement of the house.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Omg! 143C!! 🥵😱

[@mikehenry1698]

Enjoy 😉 Sweden 🇸🇪.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you Mike 🥰

[@mikehenry1698]

@@MariaOliviaTravel 👍

[@timomatilainen4850]

It would be fancy to hear your beautiful voices balanced on both channels, left and right!

[@simulacrae]

I love your content but my only niggle is that your spoken audio shift from left to right depending on what your microphone source was. You might want to look into converting mono audio to stereo in the editing software you use. But often it can just be about assigning your microphone track to stereo in the audio track.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you for the feedback 😊 out of curiosity what device are you watching the video on? When I’m playing the video I don’t hear the sound going from left to right. They are relatively new microphones and still trying to figure them out (although I thought I did 😅). I did notice the audio had shifted to mono from stereo at some point which I put back to stereo but I thought that was on an earlier video. You may be right about it being a conversion I need to do in the editing software. The software is iMovie 😅 because that’s all the power my computer has. I’ll look into it, thanks again. If it’s a setting that I needed to have at the time of the filming, the sound may not get better for a few more videos 😞

[@senchaholic]

⁠I listen using headphones. And in this video and the last, your voice either comes from the left or the right ear, which is a bit unpleasant 😊

[@senchaholic]

At the end I had Olivia's voice in my left ear and Maria's breathing in my right 😂

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Omg 😂 that’s definitely not pleasant. I definitely need to fix it. Just be patient because I may not be able to fix it for the already filmed videos (which is another ~4 😬)

[@tobiasnordqvist882]

Did you drink water from the rivers? It's tasty.

[@jorgenpersson662]

You have to eat "Glassbåt" semi melted.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Oh good tip! Thank you 😁

[@jorgenpersson662]

@@MariaOliviaTravel My pleassure...actually we use to micro it for 10 seconds before eating it.👍

[@elisaa9981]

To trekk i Sarek you should be a very experienced hiker. And I really mean very experienced. Nothing for beginners or mildly experienced hikers.

[@annicaesplund6613]

That's not a cabin, it's a cottage or a house.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

It may not be as rustic as some would think a cabin should be but it felt a lot like a cabin. It also didn’t have all the plumbing amenities a cottage would have (like the freezer toilet). Plus the owner considers it a cabin 🤷🏻‍♀️😊

[@donquixote1502]

Great vlog, pls no swimsuits in the sauna, use towels. 👍❤

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Thank you! 🥰 oh we didn’t know 🫣 thank you for telling us the right way 😁

[@MatthewDicksonOfficial]

When hot wings video?

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

One day…🤤

[@dawson1071]

*promosm*

[@niki7040]

50 degrees in the sauna! 🙂 Then it's not worth going in. At least 80, preferably more. But good job sisters. Regards from Sweden.

[@Mortac]

My right ear enjoyed this video.

[@MariaOliviaTravel]

Haha you’re welcome Mortac’s right ear 😅😂 but in all seriousness we fixed the issue right after this video

[@Mortac]

@@MariaOliviaTravel Awesome! 😃