After the hustle and bustle of the day, you might as well unpack and drive to the center of the city. This is Helsinki's own 📍 "Central park" - Keskuspuisto.
🔸 is the green heart of the city, just north of Toolonlahti Bay, a nearly 10km stretch of greenery running from south to north through the city.
🔸 It is also home to small animals, with squirrels and hares as residents, as well as elk.
📍 "The Old Town Bay" Vanhankaupunginlahti (Old Town Bay) is the largest nature reserve in Helsinki. It is a paradise for lovers of n·iao, with about 300 different niao species observed so far.
📍 You can also follow the boardwalk to Kuusiluoto Island, located in the Viikki area, the geographical heart of Helsinki.
📍 Nuuksio National Park is a delight in its setting and amenities, catering to a diverse range of outdoor activities such as fishing, cycling, swimming, horse riding, rock climbing, berry picking and mushroom picking.
While enjoying the nourishment of nature, we must also remember to respect nature, practice sustainable travel, and carefully care for the flora and fauna here. Thick green trees isolate the noise of the city behind, let us step into the thick green of Helsinki hand in hand, and embrace the bright and lovely life.
God knows how much the Finns love their mushroom houses!
I used to think of Finland as a land of mushrooms and wild berries, and that the locals were too few and rich to pick them. Turns out, the Finns are picking mushrooms. Isn't that a little curly?
How can you tell how good a Finn is with you? There are roughly three levels:
Bronze: Meet for dinner and coffee
Gold: Travel together, climb mountains, have picnics
King: Sauna together, honest meeting
But when it comes to picking mushrooms, I have been in Finland for 5 years, and I have a lot of local friends, all of whom took me to the sauna and picked blueberries together. However, there was only one Finnish person who took me to pick mushrooms, and I got lost 😂 before, I also asked them out several times, and was fooled by all kinds of weird reasons. Now I understand.
One reason is that Finnish mushrooms are super expensive, except for the few artificially cultivated ones, delicious porcini mushrooms go bad quickly, chanterelles are 30 or 40 euros a kilogram, and there is a very rare black horn, the price is even more outrageous.
Although Finns seem to have a high income, they pay a lot of taxes and are actually quite poor. Few people are willing to buy such expensive mushrooms in the supermarket, and they pick them themselves in the forest.
Many Finns have their own mushroom stronghold, which belongs to the heaven knows you don't know me, even relatives are not willing to tell. I heard that their strongholds are usually near holiday homes, because holiday homes are built in relatively remote places, not easy to be found.
How remote can this be? For example, my BFF Riina's family has a vacation home passed down from grandma's generation, which is more than 100 years old, but it was kept because it was so remote that it was not discovered during World War II.
But even if mushrooms are expensive, it's not enough to keep them secret from relatives. I tried to figure out their psychology:
Imagine that in some unknown corner of the woods, deep in the mountains, it has just rained, and a large, fleshy mushroom has sprung up on the ground, clean and ready to be picked.
How angry would it be if one day I came to the secret base full of expectations and found that all the mushrooms had been picked by others? How are we supposed to get along if we ever told someone about the mushroom stronghold? The boat of friendship turns 🤣
Unfortunately, most Rovaniemi can only pick porcini, and chanterelles are particularly rare (and may be exhausted). If anyone hit the big luck to find a black horn of the den, it is estimated that the dream to laugh awake, is the degree of inheritance when the family heirloom.
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