{"id":61503,"date":"2025-10-27T23:28:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=61503"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:06:40","slug":"a-quiet-walk-through-the-beautiful-sarek-national-park-in-swedish-lapland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/10\/27\/a-quiet-walk-through-the-beautiful-sarek-national-park-in-swedish-lapland\/","title":{"rendered":"A quiet walk through the beautiful Sarek National Park, in Swedish Lapland"},"content":{"rendered":"

In northern Sweden, about 60 km from the Norwegian border, lies Sarek, one of Europe's oldest national parks.<\/p>\n

Eketorp, a castle built on the island of Olandia by the ancestors of the Vikings<\/a><\/rel>
\nThe house where a man lived alone for 60 years in the middle of a forest in Sweden<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

This park is located in the Lapland<\/strong> region, a geographical area that occupies northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Russian Kola Peninsula. It is a sparsely populated area. Its inhabitants, the Lapps or Sami, are an ethnic group of about 80,000 members whose language belongs to the Finno-Ugric language group<\/strong>, which also includes Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.<\/p>\n

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Sarek National Park (Photo: Ville Palmu<\/a>).<\/div>\n

Sarek National Park was established in 1909 and covers an area of \u200b\u200b1,970 square kilometers<\/strong> (more than three times the size of Madrid, to give you an idea). The park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.<\/strong> It is home to six of Sweden's thirteen highest mountains, each exceeding 2,000 meters, and around 100 glaciers. Inside the park is a mountain hut, the STF P\u00e5rte<\/a>, built at the initiative of Swedish explorer and geographer Axel Hamberg (1863\u20131933).<\/p>\n

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The STF P\u00e5rte mountain shelter (Photo: Svenska Turistf\u00f6reningen<\/a>).<\/div>\n

A few days ago, Jim Manthorpe<\/a> posted a video of him taking a silent walk in Sarek National Park<\/strong>, showing its beautiful landscapes (Sj\u00e1bttjakj\u00e1vrre Lake, Rapadalen, V\u00e1jgg\u00e1ntj\u00e5hkk\u00e5, Stuor D\u00e1ht\u00e1 and also STF P\u00e5rte). I loved the video, it's like a haven of peace in the middle of all the noise on the internet:<\/strong><\/p>\n