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Martinselkonen, Finland

cover photo by Alessandro Bormida

Location added by Marcom

The information about this location have been automatically translated with Microsoft Translator.

Rank : 9.0 (average on 7 votes)

Coordinates : 65.127848,29.761852 (Open in Google Maps)

Subjects : brown bear, wolverine, ... ease of these individuals varies greatly, and know or almost only with the bear.

Recommended equipment : short as 70-200 and as long as a 300. Even a 100-400 can give her satisfaction especially if you are in the period where there is plenty of light.

Best months : For the bears ends on August 10, due to hunting. Consider that only at the beginning of April the bear comes out of hibernation. At other times I do not know what kind of activities will take place.

How to get there : As the base city take Pirtiivara, close to the Russian border. It should arrive at the airport to a nearby town or Helsinki. From renting a car can be a normal sedan: the roads in Finland (often unpaved) are usually pretty clean.

Visits : Open every day of the setttimana. The period of entry and exit from the cabin varies from season to season and I will send them. The official price on their site is about 150 euro for the night in the hut.

Notes : They can accommodate clients in their local volendo.Nella our visit 2/3 days in May 2009, we have always seen the brown bear (more than 10 copies at a time) in all the cabins. They currently have 3 huts. The big one is spacious and "luxury" considering the type of activity. can accommodate up to 10 photographers (but in this case you only have one hole available for the purpose). The chairs are comfortable reclining car seats, recycled for the occasion and can also be used for a nap. There are beds for 6-7 people and a chemical bath. There is a gas tank to heat the environment. From this hut you have the setting of the forest, even if the soil is rather "plowed" by bears. Another location is a small hut in the forest. There's room for a few people without the "comfort" of large shed, and the setting of the forest is even more present. Last location is in the swamp. A type of cabin similar to that of the small hut in the forest. In the huts you can lay your head with the screw without bringing the tripod. We visited this place only in May. He entered the hut on the 16 and we went out on the 7 o'clock in the morning. Obviously you can not get out of the hut ahead of time. In May you can make different subjects of small birds even while waiting for a visitor center. They have the ability to provide different visits to a shed, mainly used for the glutton in the period from April to June in particular. We did not go. Returned at the end of April 2010 (for snow), has proved once again an amazing place, different from the others for the confidence of the subjects. Although both wild and wild bears local show much less suspicious of the other places visited: also the first releases appear prudent nell'affacciarsi so close to the huts, but not too scared. And after a few days the confidence level increases visibly. Moreover, the number is still high compared to other areas. 30 April seemed already more than a dozen bears come out of hibernation visiting various huts and within a few days up to 25-30 raddoppierranno bears visible (as last year).

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