Inlandsbanan

If you are interested in travelling threw the northern wilderness of Sweden, to see and hear about Swedish history, culture and sights and to see wild animals like wolf, wolverine, bear, lynx, reindeer, or moose you should try travelling by train with Inlandsbanan. The traindriver promised 100% chans to see reindeer and moose and it turned out to be correct, for us anyway. You also stop along the way to buy locally produced specialities from the northern part of Sweden such as smoked or fried reindeer meat, char, Swedish potatodumplings, kanelbullar/cinnamonbuns and lots of other goodies. While travelling it is interesting to see how big the differences are in population comparing the southern- and the northern part of Sweden. In the northern part “Norrland”, in 60% of Swedens landarea, only 12% of the population lives and most of them by the coastal areas. This feels exotic even for me as a swede. One thing that’s striking is that almost in every small little town there is a thairestaurant or a thaicaravan. Pizza- and hamburger restaurants that you otherwise commonly see got competition…