place to visit

[Gil]

any nice place to visit within Finland for 2 days during Easter holidays ?

[FinnBrit]

Are you in Finland already? If so, where?

If not, then I would say that Helsinki has everything you would need for such a short visit.

[Gil]

yes i'm already in finland, vaasa. I have visited Helsinki twice.

[EP]

Tampere.

[Rosamunda]

Have you been to Rauma?

It's a Unesco world heritage site. The old town centre has some lovely old wooden villas and cobbled streets (and pretty gardens in the spring and summer). Nice place to stroll around, stop for a lunch or a beer somewhere. But I guess most of the shops and boutiques will be closed on Friday/Sunday and Monday.

http://www.oldrauma.fi/english/index.html

[SGJ]

If you liked the idea about going to Rauma, you could consider visiting Pietarsaari and it's Skata district instead. It's much closer to Vaasa and quite similar, however I don't think that tourist services there are as well developed as in Rauma.

The mandatory sightseeing tour for anyone in Vaasa is of course the Raippaluoto bridge, Raippaluoto itself and Björköby, if you haven't done that already. These are part of the large Kvarken Archipelago UNESCO World Heritage site. You could go ice fishing there, or if you don't bother leaving town, simply march onto the ice and start fishing

[Gil]

hi thanks for the info. But I'd like to go out of vaasa for 2 days. will it be possible to visit lapland in 2 days? as its already April will there be skiing / snowmobiling activities there ... or else anywhere in northern or eastern side !!!

[Gil]

if its not possible to visit places for 2 days during this Easter holidays ,i can plan sometime later ... so please give some inputs will do a search further. Also places within Nordic countries.

[raamv]

Anywhere in Lapland will still be in "peak" season!! and will be very expensive!!
Rauma and Tampere are pretty good to visit!!as already suggested!!