Festivals in Finland
Finnish Festivals
From Vappu to the Wife Carrying Championships and from the Air Guitar World Championships to World Sauna Championships, welcome to 2camels' special take on the fiestas, fairs, celebrations, holidays, carnivals and festivals of Finland.
3 Finland Festival Articles 2 Finland Festival Snippets 49 Finland Festival Photo Galleries 4 Finland Festival Videos 29 Festival Websites Finland Festivals by City or Region
Finland Festivals » 3 Articles
Article Title: Wife Carrying
Festival Name: Wife Carrying World Championships
Festival Country: Finland
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Party
At the Wife Carrying World Championships held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, it's the husband who does the schlepping - the wife holds on for dear life - across a course that's over two-and-a-half football fields in length and punctuated with sand, hurdles, water obstacles, and gravel pits
Article Title: World Sauna Championships
Festival Name: World Sauna Championships
Festival Country: Finland
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
The best competitions make leisure into sport, like turning an afternoon of watching flicks into a movie marathon. In Finland, where there are 1.5 million saunas for 5 million people, organizations of World Sauna Championships did just that with the first competition in 1999.
Article Title: Vappu - Finland's Carnival
Festival Name: Vappu
Festival Country: Finland
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Party, National
Finland's Carnival-style celebration of Vappu is one of Europe's best kept party secrets as hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Helsinki to usher in Spring
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