Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
international airports include Tampere, Turku and Oulu. The Finavia website
(
www.finavia.fi
) includes information for all Finnish airports.
Finland is easily reached by air, with direct flights to Helsinki from many European, Amer-
ican and Asian destinations. It's also served by budget carriers, especially Ryanair, from
several European countries. Most other flights are with Finnair or Scandinavian Airlines
(SAS).
Land
Border Crossings
There are several border crossings from northern Sweden and Norway to northern Finland,
with no passport or customs formalities.
There are nine main border crossings between Finland and Russia, including several in
the southeast and two in Lapland. They are more serious frontiers; you must already have
a Russian visa.
For more on travel to Russia, see
Click here
and
Click here
.
Bus
SWEDEN
The linked towns of Tornio (Finland) and Haparanda (Sweden) share a bus station from
where you can get onward transport into their respective countries. A possible, if remote,
crossing point is the Lapland villages of Kaaresuvanto (Finland) and Karesuando
(Sweden), separated by a bridge and both served sporadically by domestic buses.
NORWAY
Three routes link Finnish Lapland with northern Norway, some running only in summer.
tailed maps and timetables, as does the Finnish bus website
Matkahuolto
.
All routes originate or pass through Rovaniemi; the two northeastern routes continue via
Inari to Tana Bru/Vadsø or Karasjok. The Karasjok bus continues in summer to Nordkapp
(North Cape). On the western route, a Rovaniemi-Kilpisjärvi bus continues to Tromsø in
summer.
