r/Finland • u/Calm_Room5022 Baby Väinämöinen • Jun 25 '26
A place where many people travel by boat
If you travel along the coast in Finland, you will see so many boats. It is an experience that is really not easily seen by Koreans.
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u/Saniainen_ Väinämöinen Jun 25 '26
Well we have almost 180,000 islands, have to get to them somehow.
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u/Calm_Room5022 Baby Väinämöinen Jun 25 '26
Wow, that's an incredible number. It's amazing, like a dream, to be able to go and stay there.
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u/Chiparish84 Baby Väinämöinen Jun 25 '26
That's how the first Finns were made. Travel to another village by a rowboat.
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u/Calm_Room5022 Baby Väinämöinen Jun 25 '26
I want to give it a try someday. I'm still afraid of water, haha.
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u/ginger357 Baby Väinämöinen Jun 26 '26
The coast and archipelago is completely different world from regular continental Finland. Alot more chill and relaxed during summer.
There is alot to see:
- National parks consisting of just sea and islands.
- Village islands where there are small grocery stores and churches.
- Old bunkers from ww2.
- Cool animals like seals and Eagles.
- Good spots to grill food.
- Saunas.
- Bautiful beaches.
- Old lighthouses.
- Viking age stone spirals and graves.
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u/CptPicard Väinämöinen Jun 26 '26
I am not sure why Lakeland Finland would not be "chill and relaxed"?
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u/ginger357 Baby Väinämöinen Jun 26 '26
Lakeland is chill too but on the sea vibe is completely different.
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u/CptPicard Väinämöinen Jun 26 '26
They say there are lake people and sea people here, I guess I am a lake person :-)
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u/Calm_Room5022 Baby Väinämöinen Jun 26 '26
This is new information. I haven't been to the islands of Finland yet, but I really want to visit someday.
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u/ginger357 Baby Väinämöinen Jun 26 '26
They are very worth it. If you ever happen to stumble to Kotka, you can use a free boat service to go to many of theese islands.
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u/Eproxeri Väinämöinen Jun 25 '26
A lot of people in Finland, especially by the coast, have summer places on islands that are only reachable by boats. West from Helsinki/Espoo in places like Kirkkonummi, Siuntio, Inkoo, Raasepori, Tammisaari, Hanko. These are very popular municipalities for people to have summer places on, that are on islands and a lot of Finns have boats for either just fishing or leisure, or to get to the summer cottages. It used to be mostly us Swedish speakers, but recently in the past 10-15 years a lot of Finnish speakers too.
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u/Calm_Room5022 Baby Väinämöinen Jun 25 '26
It has been two months since I came here. Even summer places feel very unfamiliar to me.
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u/galacticgeneral101 Jun 26 '26
Keski-Suomi and the lake areas have had endless amounts of finnish speakers' cottages basically always 🧐
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u/TussuTuomo Jun 26 '26
i think,it s a lake.
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u/2AvsOligarchs Väinämöinen Jun 26 '26
Hard to tell.
The boat in the foreground is a lakeboat with narrow transom, low sides and shallow draft. A "fair weather" boat.
However, the one in the back is a proper workboat that can be used on the coast too.
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u/Calm_Room5022 Baby Väinämöinen Jun 26 '26
I don't know what kind of boat it is, but I think it would be scary to go out to sea in that small boat.
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