🥦Mizuo's Travel Blog🥦No.21 - Dog sledding, Kiruna, Sweden - Dec. 2020

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Dog Sledding in the Middle of the Night

真夜中の犬ぞり体験

It may sound a bit exaggerated, but I have a list of things that I want to do while I am alive.

・I want to go to Easter Island. 🗿🗿

・I want to go cruising around the world. 🛳️

・I want to go to Cebu Island and swim with whale sharks. 🐋🐋

・I want to do whale watching.🐳🐳

・I want to go to Congo to see mountain gorillas.🦍🦍

etc.

One of the things on the list was "I want to see the Northern Lights". I had heard that seeing the aurora borealis was a very precious experience, and I thought it would be difficult to see it, but I thought I would be very lucky if I could see it while dog sledding, so I booked a dog sledding experience for the night.

少し大げさに聞こえるかもしれないですが、生きている間にこれはしたいと言う、何個かのリストが自分の中にわたしはあります。

・イースター島に行きたい

・世界一周クルージングをしたい

・セブ島でジンベエザメと泳ぎたい

・クジラの泳いでるところ船からみたい

・コンゴでマウンテンゴリラを見に行きたい

などなど。

その中にリストに、「オーロラを見てみたい」と言うのがありました。 オーロラを見るのはとても貴重な体験と聞いていて、なかなか見るのは難しいだろうなぁとは思っていたのですが、もしかして犬ぞりをしながら見れたらこれはかなりラッキーと思い、犬ぞり体験を夜に予約しました。

先のブログもぜひ

Please take a look at previous blogs

🥦Travel Blog No.17 🥦 - Night train to Kiruna 夜行列車

🥦Travel Blog No.18 🥦 - Kiruna church キルナ教会

🥦Travel Blog No.19 🥦 - Sami village サーミ村

🥦Travel Blog No.20 🥦 -  Ice Hotel アイスホテル

キルナに行きたかった理由

Why I wanted to go to Kiruna

  1. I want to see how the Sami live.

  2. I want to visit the Ice Hotel.🥶😁

  3. I want to ride a dog sled.🐕

  4. I want to see the Northern Lights if possible.🔦

先のブログでも書いたのですが、いくつかの理由があり、キルナへ旅行へ行くことになりました。

<b>1.サーミの生活を見てみたい。</b>

<b>2.アイスホテルに行ってみたい。</b>

<b>3.犬ぞりに乗ってみたい。</b>

<b>4.できれば、オーロラを見てみたい。</b>

Stopped by a convenience store to get some night snacks
Stopped by a convenience store to get some night snacks

We stopped briefly at a convenience store to get some food for the night and prepare to join the dog sledding tour. In Kiruna, the temperature was around -20 degrees Celsius even during the daytime, and sometimes it was even colder at night. In the cold, I often felt hungry (maybe because I was burning a lot of calories to keep my body warm?) I always had some peanuts in my pocket.

コンビニエンスストアに少し立ち寄り、夜食を飼って犬ぞりツアーへ参加する準備を行いました。キルナは日中でも気温は-20度程度で、夜になるとさらに寒くなる時もありました。 そして、寒いところでは空腹感をよく感じ(たぶんですが、体の熱を保つためにカロリー消費がおおいのかな?)、ポケットにピーナッツなどを常に持っていました。

And then it was time to join the dog sledding tour!

そして、いざ犬ぞりツアーへ参加しました!

🐕🐕 Dog sledding🛷🛷  - Here

Pics from their Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kirunadogsled/
Pics from their Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kirunadogsled/ 

In the city of Kiruna, they met us at the mall to take the tour and took us to the tour departure point where there was a kennel.

キルナ市内にある、モールで待ち合わせをしてツアーの参加の為に、ミニバンで犬小屋のあるツアー出発場所まで連れて行ってくれました。

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The first thing I did was to change my clothes. It was -20 degrees outside. We were told that the temperature outside was -20 degrees Celsius, and that we would be experiencing a headwind on the dog sled tour, which would make the temperature feel like -30 degrees Celsius. I wore the thermal gear shown in the photo over the clothes I was already wearing. They also lent me very thick socks, and then I put on my boots. They also lent me a jacket, which was a very thick coat. 

まず初めにしたのは、着替えです。外は-20度。そして、犬ぞりに乗ってツアーをすると向かい風を受けて、その時の体感温度は-30度ぐらいになると説明がありました。既に着ていた服に重ねるようにして写真の防寒具を着用しました。靴下もすごく分厚いのを貸してくれて、そして長靴を履きました。上着も貸してくれて、かなり厚手のコートでした。

After that, we greeted the dogs that would be pulling us on our sleds. I thought there would be a lot of big-bodied dogs like Siberian Huskies, but I was a little surprised to see a lot of slim-bodied dogs. They were very smart and listened very well to the instructor's whistle instructions and shouts.

When we took the tour in 2020, Corona was spreading around the world and there were very few tourists. According to the instructor, there are usually nine tours a day, morning, noon and night, but when we were there, there were only two tours a day.

The instructor explained that the dogs that do the sledding have to run every day, even if there are not many customers, otherwise they get stressed and lose muscle strength, so they have to run some every day. They are very friendly dogs and very cute.

そして、そのあとわたしたちを犬ぞりで引っ張ってくれる犬たちにあいさつしました。 シベリアンハスキーのような大きな体の犬が多いのかなと思っていたのですが、意外に体のスリムな犬たちが多くて少しびっくりしました。とても賢くて、インストラクターが行う笛での指示や掛け声でとても言うことを聞いていました。

わたし達がツアーに参加した、2020年はちょうどコロナが世界中に広がっていた時期で、観光客ととても少なかったです。 インストラクターの話では、通常、1日に朝昼夜と、計9回のツアーを行っているようですが、わたし達がいった時期は1日に2回程度になっていたようです。

インストラクターの説明では、犬ぞりを行う犬たちは毎日、お客さんが少なくても走らせないとストレスがたまったり、筋力が落ちたりとするようで、毎日ある程度は走らせていると言っていました。 とても人懐っこい犬たちで、とてもかわいかったですよ。

Unfortunately, we were not able to see the Northern Lights, but it was a memory that will last a lifetime. The experience of dashing through the frigid Kiruna on a dog sled pulled by speeding dogs was very precious and unforgettable.

After the dog sledding was over, I handed the dogs some food as a thank you, and they were very happy when I patted them. After the dog sledding tour was over, we changed our clothes and went to a rest stop near the hut where we had a chance to talk with the instructor about Kiruna and dog sledding. Surprisingly, the instructors were a Italian, a Swiss, some more people from Europe and the owner was the only local Swede, and they were people from all over the world who came to Kiruna to work, attracted by the appeal of dog sledding. I wish I had used my Working Holiday Visa when I was a student so that I could have had this kind of experience.

残念ながら、オーロラは見ることはできなかったのですが本当に一生の思い出が出来ました。 疾走する犬たちが引く犬ぞりに乗せられて極寒のKirunaを颯爽と走る体験はとても貴重で、忘れられない思い出になりました。

犬ぞりが終わった後にお礼に犬たちに餌を手渡しで与えて、なでてやるととても喜んでいました。 犬ぞりツアーが終わったと、服を着替え、小屋の近くにあった休憩所でインストラクターといろいろとキルナの話や、犬ぞりの話などを聞けてとても楽しかったです。 意外に、インストラクターはイタリア人、スイス人と、地元スウェーデン人はオーナーだけで、世界中から犬ぞりの魅力にひかれてKirunaに来て、働いている人たちでした。 わたしも、学生時代にWorking Holiday Visaなどを使用して、このような体験ができたらよかったなぁと改めて感じました。

Northern lights (オーロラ)

Well, I did not see the northern lights, but here is a reference link to see northern lights haha 😄
Well, I did not see the northern lights, but here is a reference link to see northern lights haha 😄

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Next day - We visited Sami shop

帰る前にサーミショップを訪問

They were selling reindeer meat, hats and gloves made by the Sami people. I bought a pair of Sami gloves as a memory.

トナカイの肉とか、サーミの方が作られた帽子や手袋を売っていました。 わたしはサーミ手袋を思い出に購入しました。

Souvenir shop and café

お土産とカフェ

Semla - my favorite Swedish sweets

Ahhhhh, I love semlas! I was so happy to see semlas! We had a good fika 😄
Ahhhhh, I love semlas! I was so happy to see semlas! We had a good fika 😄

Bye bye Kiruna 

I was a little hesitant to travel in the midst of the Corona pandemic, but as it turns out, I'm really glad I went on the trip.

There were four reasons I wanted to go to Kiruna, and I was able to accomplish all three except for "Seeing the northern lights," and I finished the trip with great satisfaction. 

Rather than achieving all of my goals, I think it would be better to have a few unachievable goals so that I can come back to that destination again. I hope I can see the aurora next time I come back. Buying warm clothes and inviting my mother to the Ice Hotel sounds like fun! I hope to see the Northern Lights next time I come back.

コロナ禍の中の旅行、少し躊躇したのですが、結論から言うと本当に言ってよかったと思える旅行でした。 目標に掲げた旅行での目標も4つ中、3つもできて、「オーロラをみる」以外はすべて達成できました。

すべての目標を達成するより、何個か達成できなかった目標があるほうがまたその旅行先に来れていいかなとも思います。次また来る機会があれば、オーロラが見れたらいいなぁと思います。温かい服を買って母親をIceHotelに招待するのも楽しそうですよね。

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Looked you have big fun with those cute sled doggies🐶. Aurora - northern lights are in my goal lists and we plan to travel to visit Finland for that. And I can only do my goal thing without war panic!

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Wow, definitely adding dog sledding to my bucket list now. 😆
Was lucky enough to see the northern lights on my trip to Iceland in 2018, it was an amazing experience that I will remember for the entire of my life.
I miss travelling so much, hope that 2022 will be the year I finally get to travel again. 😭

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Oh, cool! The northern lights in Iceland must be awesome~~~!! Iceland is always one of the countries I want to visit! The Blue Lagoon! Ah, I want to visit there! 🤩🤩
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