Today at opening Carnival we asked Finnish people about tips and what to do in Turku and Finland during your exchange.

Thank you all Finnish people for the ideas, we will reward the best!

Here are the ideas that we collected! TO BE USED WITH OWN RESPONSIBILITY

IN TURKU

  1. Ride on Föri (both ways)
  2. Tinatuoppi bar at 9 am
  3. Archipelago
  4. Castle of Turku
  5. Bar Koulu and Uusi apteekki
  6. Luostarinmäki (handcraft museum)
  7. Archipelago by bike
  8. Event of Book Café
  9. Riverside in Koroinen (opposite to Student Village)
  10. Visit to any national park with thermos mug and sausage
  11. Swimming in hole in the ice (avanto) with sauna, alternatively rolling naked in snow
  12. Ruisrock festival
  13. Åboa Vetus, Ars Nova, Castle of Turku
  14. Moomin world
  15. Participate a Carelian pie baking course organized by Martat (organization of people who know everything about kitchen&home)
  16. Language tandem
  17. Find your subject organization and join their events
  18. Watching an ice hockey game
  19. Cloudberry swamp
  20. College football experience
  21. Dynamo bar
  22. Random party in a forest -> Campfire, singing (alcohol) ATMOSPHERE! 
  23. Karaoke bar
  24. Pubcrawl/tour in the Suburbs of Turku – getting in touch with true Finnish feeling
  25. Larping and underground rave party
  26. Celebrating Pikkujoulut (small Christmas) with the Finns
  27. Skiing on a frozen lake
  28. Skanssi, Flowpark
  29. Ride on an Icelandic horse
  30. Mämmi party
  31. Sauna, particularly smoke sauna
  32. Build a snow lantern, make an angle in the snow
  33. Picking berries and mushrooms in forest

EAT AND DRINK

  1. Drink Karhu beer
  2. Eating (and baking) Carelian pie
  3. Eating ‘Mämmi’
  4. Tour of Finnish national food ‘verilätyt’, ‘mämmi’, ‘rössypotut’
  5. Taste Salmiakki
  6. Grilling a sausage on a campfire
  7. Baking ‘pulla’ (bun)

ELSEWHERE FINLAND

  1. Kallo and Yyteri in Pori
  2. Suomenlinna in Helsinki
  3. Lapland
  4. Wife carrying world championship in Sonkajärvi
  5. Kaljakellunta (Beer floating) in Vantaa
  6. Sompasauna, Helsinki
  7. Särkänniemi amusement park in Tampere
  8. Medieval Market of Hämeenlinna
  9. Eating Mustamakkara
  10. Take RUneberg ship from Porvoo to Helsinki
  11. Paper Factory tour in Nokia
  12. Trip to Powerpark (biggest amusement park in Finland)
  13. Visit Imatra and Imatrankoski
  14. Sulkavan soudut rowing competition
  15. Architecture in Tampere
  16. Koli national park
  17. Goom cruise
  18. Aurinkolahti, Helsinki
  19. Utö
  20. Laukontori ice cream stand in Tampere
  21. Cruise to Sweden and Estonia
  22. Climbing down on Pyynikki tower in Tamere in the summer, after coffee&munkki
  23. Town of Lahti by night, ’lihamuki’, Statue of Litti and Liipola
  24. Northern lights
  25. Salpausselkä ski competition in Lahti
  26. Bilnäss in Raasepori
  27. Visit Santa Claus and Artic Circle
  28. Säynätsalo, close to Jyväskylä
  29. World Championship of Water hockey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh3hyBRDerM
  30. (Even us Finns never heard of this before!!)
  31. Trip during autumn foliage (colourful leaves) to Lapland
  32. Nuuksio natural park close to Helsinki
  33. Light Carnival in Linnanmäki, Helsinki
  34. Old town of Porvoo in summer
  35. Night of Arts (Turku, Helsinki… )
  36. UKK national park in Lapland
  37. ‘Suntti’ in Parainen
  38. Visiting countryside
  39. Skiing in Lapland (or somewhere else)
  40. Flow festival, Helsinki