Gifts and souvenirs from Finland
Each tourist would like to bring something memorable or purely national to the close people from a trip to another country. It becomes a difficult business, because at a new place when you encounter so much interesting and unexpected, the choice of gifts sometimes becomes a complicated process, and sometimes even unsuccessful. We will try to help all tourists who plan a trip to Finland slowly to think over it. So what, in our opinion, could be purely Finnish gift: we will begin, perhaps, from children who always wait for them and are glad to receive anything special. There are so original Finnish, to be exact lappish hats with national ornaments and four ends. They are bright, very unusual and warm. Four ends symbolize four parts of the world, such caps suit both girls and boys. As much unusual and cozy can be even the children’s lappish house slippers from fur of a reindeer, lappish dolls and other various souvenirs displaying color of Finnish northern life. In Finland there are many interesting souvenirs for children, for example, figures of the animals living in Finland of deer, elks and various birds with which the country is full of, and also souvenirs connected with the Finnish flag, the arms … is rich Sweater, pullovers, the waistcoats connected by the skillful lappish skilled worker from natural wool with a national ornament and, certainly, excellent taste in selection of color scale, will necessarily please your relatives and besides you as to give gifts is not less pleasant, than receiving them. And for mother or grandmother it is possible to buy beautiful and very warm Finnish plaid with reindeers, it will be a worthy gift of the loving son or a grandson. It is possible to present such northern slippers from felt (as though cut off valenoks), they happen light or red color and can please the elderly person, it is warm and cozy in them, it will remind the forgotten valenoks and especially will be necessary during the time of switching-off of the heat during the spring or autumn period in some apartments. The national wooden mug of handwork executed by the master from an integral piece of a tree, purely northern invention, will be pleasant to anybody. Many tourists want to bring any female northern ornament, it is necessary to pay attention to a beads or the bracelets made of lappish stones. They are beautiful and original. The most popular souvenirs from Finland are products of national crafts from a tree, cervine skins and horns… Tourists of the different countries pay attention also to soft snow-white skins of deer which also can be quite a good gift for women, as well as different things, made of fur of deer and elks. Old tradition in Finland is — to give unusual glass birds. It is always beautiful and romantic. To bring a souvenir-bird from the country, where there is a large quantity of them feathery, is very symbolical. .
The Finnish knifes hardly will leave men indifferent, here is an excellent gift for a father or a brother… And to choose the Finn among a huge variety of offered national souvenir knifes everyone can. Among them there is also the work of art in the single copy, but it is already for those who is a good judge of it. For men-fishermen it is possible to bring from Finland a good Finnish spinner — a gift set, it will be beautiful practical, and if on this spinner good fish is caught in any reservoir then consider that your gift will be accepted … And here the main thing is that (similar spinners can be bought in any shops) it is brought there from where it has been thought up. For example, such spinners, as “Rapala” or “Kuusamo”. Certainly, tourists come in search of gifts into sports or fishing specialized Finnish shops where it is possible to choose from souvenirs to solid gifts for all relatives who are fond of sports, fishing or hunting … There, really, the choice is. Sets for saunas can be an excellent gift for all members of one family, and it will be long exact to remind your visit to Finland, in a gift set there are a lot of subjects: from tar shampoo and a copper bucket to the wooden thermometer…
About the Finnish berry liquors everything is known or nearly so, the special preference is given to liquor: unusual taste of an imperial berry will remind that this berry grows only in North countries. Jam and jam from cloudberries, sweets with a stuffing … — all can become a gift from Finland. Many consider the Finnish coffee one of the best gifts, somehow Finns manage, without growing up a coffee tree, to speak about coffee as about Finnish. Means, something unusual is in it. Buy the necessary grades of coffee, and the gift will be quite good, and can prolong sensation of fragrant and tasty Finnish coffee already after a trip. Especially the smoked salmon as Finns smoke, but precisely one — taste excellent, and, without any doubt would be desirable to note, the Finnish smoked salmon will harmoniously be entered in memoirs behind a table in the first evening of your arrival from winter (or summer). Pictures and photos are taken from sites: lappituote.fi, taitopirkanmaa.fi, hernekeppi.fi, hokuouzakka.com, suomalainenjoulu.fi, mtv3.fi, kainuu.com, goodnewsfinland.fi, harvia.fi, kauppakartano.com, fbsk.info, vehmaanmaut.fi
