07 – Finland (Lapland) – I have traveled today from the opal fields of Ethiopia, to the far northern reaches of Finland, just below the arctic circle. Here Finland borders Norway, Sweden and Russia in the region known as Lapland. It is the home of Finland's only indigenous people, the Sami, who are given sole custodianship of Lapland's herds of reindeer. It is colorful embroidery, and woven hats, and pointy-toed boots, like elves'. It is the Sami playing of a reindeer hide drum to accompany the singing of a joik, against a backdrop of tipi-like kotas. It is the land of Northern lights, and of summer days when the sun never sets.
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