Introducing The Lakeland

If you’re looking for quintessential summertime Finland, this is it. Eastern Finland is a romantic region of lakes, rivers, locks and canals. There’s more water here than terra firma – a glistening patchwork of waterways in summer where a highlight is canoeing or taking a lake ferry between towns. Lakeland encompasses the border region of Karelia, part of which was taken by Russia in the bitter Winter War, and the Savo region of which Savonlinna is the centre. If you’ve only got the time or money to visit one part of Finland outside Helsinki in the summertime, make this the place.