Family holidays with children in Finland - attractions and entertainment

A trip with children to Finland is convenient, safe, exciting and informative. One of the centers of children’s recreation in the country is fairy Lapland and the city of Rovaniemi, where young guests can ride on a sleigh pulled by a reindeer, or dog sleigh. They can also jump over the Arctic Circle and meet Santa Claus himself. In the city is located the village of the famous wizard, where he receives children from different countries around the world and listens to their stories about what they would like to receive as a Christmas present. There you can visit the house, the secret workshop and the office of Santa, the post office where children’s letters come to from all over the world, cafes and restaurants, as well as souvenir shops.

In the travel program with children through Finland, it is necessary to include places associated with children’s favorite characters from Tove Jansson’s fairy tales – Moomin trolls. In Tampere, guests are received by the “Moomin Valley Museum”, a fairy-tale museum where an amazing multimedia program has been prepared for children of different ages. The five-storey Moomin house with a height of more than two meters deserves separate attention. There you can see original illustrations from the tales about the Moomin trolls or get acquainted with the rules of life of these charming creatures. An entire Moomin Park was built in the city of Naantali. Here children can meet with their favorite heroes and places known to them from books. There you can climb up to the Moomin-attic and go down to the Moomin-basement, find the house of Hemul, and visit the summer theater Emma.

Helsinki houses the largest amusement park in Finland, “Linnanmäki”. Within its territory there are attractions, an oceanarium, a toy museum, and a cinema. “Floopark” in Turku is a rope park with variety of routes and obstacles available to children from the age of seven. There is a 1.5 meters high track for children here. “Fanpark” Tampere is an indoor amusement park where there are also outdoor attractions, the children’s center “Hop-Lop”, a 6D-cinema, gaming machines, and simulators. Not far from the city of Mikkeli is the “Visulahti” recreation park, where children can visit the adventure center “Dinosauria”, the autodrome, an outdoor water park, extreme attractions and a wax museum. In the entertainment park Kouvola, a children’s theater, a huge toy store, a mini city with exact copies of buildings, a farm with a contact zoo where you can touch goats, rabbits or miniature pigs, all await visitors. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

Young wildlife enthusiasts are invited to the northernmost zoo in the world, “Ranua”, where wild animals of the North and the Arctic live. In the capital of the country is located the terrarium “Tropicaria”, which contains reptiles and amphibians of the southern countries. In the “Sea Life Aquarium”, children can observe sea animals and fishes. The transparent bottom of the aquarium lets you see sharks or other fishes floating overhead. Schoolchildren will like the center of science “Evrika” located in the city of Vantaa. Here educational exhibits that help kids to master the principles of exact and natural sciences are presented. In the unique planetarium “Wattenfal”, children will be amazed by a large-scale panorama of the Universe. In the developing center “Tietomaa” situated in the city of Oulu, there are about two hundred interactive exhibits which make it possible for you to feel the effects of astonishing phenomena.

The largest aqua park in Scandinavia is “Serena” in Helsinki. The unusual center of water entertainment is located in the strata of the cliff. For children of different ages there are warm shallow swimming pools and low slides. In the suburbs of the capital – Vantaa, is located the water park “Flamingo”. It is decorated in the spirit of the Mayan civilization. There is a family slide inside of it, along which you can go down together with your child. For children there is a swimming pool with small descents and geysers. The water park “Eden” in Tampere is noted for its variety of pools, among which are unusual bubbling water bodies. Two water parks are working simultaneously in Turku: “Karibia” and “Yukupark”. In the first one, you can visit an outdoor pool with underwater grottos or ride along a hundred-meter pipe. In the second, the game zone “Pirate Island” is functional. Here children can take part in exciting sea adventures.