Finland Photo Gallery - Weeks 4~5

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1 - Kotka docks and Finland's National Maritime Museum 2 - Gulf of Finland at Hamina Camping 3 - Hamina war cemetery for those killed in the Winter War 4 - Russian bastion at Hamina, now a marquee-covered arena

 
5 - WW2 trenches at Salpa Linja defensive line 6 - Soviet T34 tank faces Finnish anti-tank defences 7 - Wild Lily of Valley (kielo), National flower of Finland 8 - Lingonberry flower buds
(berries in September)

 
9 - Bearberry flowers
(berries in September)		 10 - Bilberry Flowers
(berries in August)		 11 - Sunset over Gulf of Finland at Vaalimaa Camping 12 - Finnish~Russian border control point at Vaalimaa

 
13 - Exiting Palli locks in Russian part of Saimaa Canal 14 - Helsinki~St Petersburg express over Saimaa Canal 15 - Swedish-built castle overlooking quayside at Vyborg 16 - Meat stalls at Vyborg's indoor Market Hall

 
17 - Vyborg's Orthodox Cathedral 18 - Sunset over Lake Saimaa from the deck of M/S Carelia 19 - Scale model of Viipuri at South Karelia Museum 20 - Lappeenranta's giant sand castle in pouring rain

 
21 - Astuvansalmi rock paintings 22 - Detail of rock paintings with elk and human figures 23 - Labrador Tea
     (Ledum palustre)		 24 - Mikkeli market square with Mannerheim statue

 
25 - Mannerheim's wartime railway carriage, open only on his Birthday, 4 June 26 - Mannerheim's wartime office at Mikkeli HQ Museum 27 - 15th century Swedish-built Olavinlinna castle at Savonlinna 28 - Road across top of the Punkaharju ridge, an archetypal glacial esker

 
29 - Train along the Punkahurju esker-ridge from Lusto Station 30 - The world's largest wooden church at Kerimäki 31 - Interior of Kerimäki wooden church 32 - Lake-side camping at Noidankattila boat-anchorage

 
33 - Main church at Valamo Russian Orthodox Manastery 34 - Church interior at Valamo Russian Orthodox Monastery 35 - Sunday morning market at Joensuu in pouring rain 36 - Joensuu Orthodox Church
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