Sunday, 15 July 2007

Kungsleden 4. - 12. 7.


4.7. Falun

Clean, fresh and full of expectations

Abisko National Park,
Kungsleden/Royal Trail´s notherly starting point


5.7. - Abisko Turiststation - Abiskojaure, 15 km

Instructions for the visitors of the National Park ... also in Czech language

River Abiskojohka

Lapporten

Bridge over Nissonjohka




Lake Abeskojávri



6.7. - Abiskojaure - Alesjaure, 20 km

Giron (1543)


Brook Šiellajohka
Last view on the lake Abiskojávrí and Abisko NP




Gárddenvággi,
valley between mountains Gárddenvárri and Šiellanjunni











Between lakes Ahpparjávri and Miesakjávri

Way to the lake Alesjávri



7.7. - Alesjaure - Tjaktja - Salka, 25 km



Alesjaurestugorna


Unna Visttasčohkka (1682)


Brook Bossosjohka




Reindeer hairs



River Čeavččanjira

Herd of reindeers



Tjaktjastugan







Probably the hardest part of our trip, no grass, no animals at all, only wet, gray moss and (rest of) snow.



Greetings from Holidays in Lapland!

























8.7. - Salka - Singi, 12 km



Salkastugorna







Anna, "cooking" lunch for us.




Sami village

Singistugorna


9.7. - Singi - Kebnekaise Fjallstation, 14 km

Morning joga excercise



this realy reminds me..
"The Simpsons"

Here we ended our hiking on Kungsleden, and turned to the East, direction to the closest "civilization point" :(

Lazy "stugavard"



NASA








Lunch-break, the same menu as yesterday, the day before yesterday,...
("Svačinka team")



Sinničohka (1704)

It does not help at all when you have bridge over only one river

anyway sandals are needed :)






Brook Giebmejohka

First trees that we saw after some days


Cute "Kebnekaise Fjallstation-vard"

Tolpagorni, Kebnekaise somewhere behind


Veiw from our tent

Welcome back, telephone signal, showers, helicopters and many turists
Kebnekaise Fjallstation :(


10.7. Kebnekaise Fjallstation - Nikkaluokta, 20km



Port on the lake Laddjujávri


Somewhere here we reached 100th km of our trip

Sami Café

Lake Láddjujávri



Lapdonalds :)

Green monster

Blue monster
It was raining on our last few kilometers... nostalgic mood completed



11.7. - Nikkaluokta - Kiruna



Kiruna - Sami Garden/Sami museum





Kiruna, in Sami language Giron, which means: ptarmigan alias this Snow Chicken :)






12.7. - Falun
Dirty, tired and very very happy

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice, very nice :)

Anonymous said...

amazing ... ;) I am totally jealous! :P I have to persuade Stefan to go there! Best!

Kala said...

Thank you for posting those pictures of the Kungsleden trail. I am writing from Hawai'i and have a friend from Sweden who invited me to join her on this trail, so I started doing some research and found your site. Did you do the whole trail or just sections? I read somewhere that a portion of the trail is not too well maintained and difficult to pass. I was wondering if you found that to be true?
Anyway, it looks pretty cold in some of your pictures but the landscape is very beautiful.

Anonymous said...

Wow, so many memories, I´m from mexico, i just did a similar trail last summer and so many images of yours come back to my head in my own version, thank so much for posting them. I wish you more and just as good or better trips. Gracias otra vez.

Karl said...

Great pictures! Thanks for posting them! I did the same section several years back and just recently put my own memories out into the blogosphere. It was an unforgettable journey. I strongly recommend this hike to any outdoor enthusiast.