Pakasaivo

Beautiful nature accessed easily by car

Pakasaivo is not only a beautiful nature spot formed after Ice Age, but also a sacred mythological place for the Sami people. Well worth a visit despite the bit rough road. Nearby is also an open fir...

Beautiful nature at Hell of Lapland

There are no streams running to or from saivo lakes and the beauty of Pakasaivo as well as mythology make it a quite peculiar place and well worth a visit. It is also known as the Hell of Lapland. Peo...

Concentrated Sami Culture.

Reindeers, gravel roads through forests and swamps of Lapponia. Pakasaivo is a Sami sacred sinkhole, passage to the land of Saivo-people, the dead, who walk under the bottom of the lake upside down. A...

11km gravel road

Cancelled our trip to this beautiful place because of poorly maintained gravel road. We drove the road about 1km and turned back. Biggest loose stones were about size of a fist. Not suitable for low p...

Gateway to the underworld

This is a deep small lake with high cliffs surrounding it. The sight is situated close to a dirt road, only a few hundred meters walking distance from the parking lot. There is a cafe (opening hours?)...