Serene summer in Finland´s centenary national park
(The Guardian Travel News)

The Nordic country´s newly opened Hossa national park has all the wilderness an adventure traveller - or a bear - could desireIn a hide two miles from the Russian border in Finland´s Suomussalmi region, we watch and wait. For centuries, the European brown bear has been pushed by deforestation into increasingly remote areas, to do what a bear proverbially does in woods. Luckily, in Finland, where 76% of the land mass is dense forest, a bear doesn´t have to go very far for a little private time. Continue reading...