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Amateur Traveler episode 456.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about a hike through Tundra and reindeer as we hike the King's

Trail in Swedish Lapland. I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not to the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

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show notes. Agana, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me here today.

And you have come to talk to us about a portion of Sweden we have not talked

about yet, which is Lapland? Yes. What is Lapland? Where would we find that on the map?

Okay, so La'Lant obviously is an ethnic minority in Sweden, but it spreads from Norway through

Sweden, Finland and Russia. So it's more like horizontal, right? So you

find as army people in Norway, in Sweden and in smaller countries too. It's very, very interesting and very particular.

And you used a word for that ethnicity that I think most people haven't heard so could you repeat that one?

Sami people with double A.

Okay and I had actually not come across that term

until I ran into a journalist in Sweden actually earlier in the year.

So why should someone go to Lapland?

It sounds like you're trying to tell us to go someplace cold,

to be honest with you.

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