Travel Via Baltica Nordica - Via Finlandia

SUMMER 2005
Name of the tour: Art, history and nature in Ostrobothnia
Starting point: Vaasa
Ending point: Vaasa
Total length: 50 km
Suitable number of hours for the tour: 8 hours
Traveling by: the group have their own bus

Good to know:
Size of group: at least 20 persons
Price 2005: 25,80/person
The price includes: Lunch at Restaurant Berny´s, etrance fees and guidning at Stundars coffee and pastry at House of crafts Loftet.
The guide fee is not included in the price.
Guide Fee:8 hour: 145 € (Mon–Sat), 263 € (Sundays, public holidays)

What you can experience:
The tour takes you via handicraft tradition, history and beautiful Archipelago.

Tour starts from the Wasa town centre. Short presentation of Vaasa Town Hall and then start to Alskat (20km from Vaasa) and over the longest bridge of Finland. Sightseeing in Replot, visiting in the church from 1781 and in Björköby. In the old harbour Bodback that today is on dry land, we can see the land upheaval with own eyes.
Lunch at Restaurant Berny´s.

The tour continues to Solf, about 20 km south of Vaasa. Visiting in Stundars handicraft village. Stundars is a genuine environment with cottage industries where craftsmen using traditional tools and equipment work as tinsmiths, potters, stone carvers, apothecaries, millers etc. There are almost 60 buildings in this museum village. Possibilities to buy souvenirs in the handicraft shop.

The tour ends in the Vaasa town centre, where serving a coffee and tasty buns at pleasant surroundings in the House of crafts Loftet (100 m from Town Hall), a charming 19th century surroundings with a handcraft shop, chancing exhibitions and coffee room.

Where you can stay:
Hotels and cabins

Where you can eat:
All sorts of restaurants

For more information:

Botnia Tourist
Vaasanpuistikko 22
FIN- 65100 VAASA
Tel +358 (0)6 325 1125, Fax +358-(0)6 312 5833
E-mail office@botniatourist.com
www.botniatourist.com, www.travelostrobothnia.com