Finland? Estonia and Latvia?

Twoin18
Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:18:29 +0000

I guess that nowadays Finland is geared up to ice and snow experiences in winter. The roads are fine to drive in summer, very quiet in the north. But distances are very long, it’s over 900 miles from Helsinki to the North Cape.

If you were going to do that then the best option would be the night train to Kolari then pick up a rental car there (I took the night train to Kemijarvi and back from Rovaniemi but wasn’t heading on to Norway):

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Night trains and sleeping compartments

You can relax and rest when travelling on a night train from one end of Finland to the other. You can also take your car with you.

It looks like there’s a nice driving loop (3-4 days?) up into Norway and back through northern Finland. I would have loved to have gone to the Arctic Ocean. Most of the tourists I met were trying to do that trip