Friday, January 28, 2005

Kiruna Trip!! Arrival n Snow Festival..

Took the Connex train from Stockholm all the way to Boden then change train to Kiruna.. a total of 17 hours.. wah xiong ah.. in case u dont noe where Kiruna is.. look at the map to the left.. we came from the middle part of Sweden (Stockholm) n going all the way up...

Along the way to Boden C, there was a stop where suddenly there were 2 big policemen who talked to a guy n then suddenly arrested him n led him out of the train.. there was a lot of commotion.. this happened just few seats away from us.. wah happening leh..

Here we reached Boden Centrum n is waiting for the train going straight to Kiruna..
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The train we took to reach here
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Finally after 17 hrs, we reached liao
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After arrival, we played around with the snow a bit.. haha
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As we proceeded to our accomodation in Kiruna "The Yellow House", we passed by a Snow Festival exhibition..
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Giant Fridge made of Snow
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This podium was supposed to be used by the winners of the snow sculpture competition but everything ended laio.. so...
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Posing by a reindeer
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After some walking, we reached the Yellow House, the reception guy is terrible.. super poor attitude.. really qian bian.. but anyhow lah.. its pretty cheap anyway.. 150kr per person for a 4 bed room..
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After checking in, we dump all our bags in the room and went out to explore the Kiruna town.. n have dinner as well.. as usual, we fooled around n took some photos..
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A car covered entirely with snow..
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Kiruna looks surprisingly modern.. i thot that it would be ulu ulu small town but it has all the big companies here like Handelsbanken n ICA supermarket.. cool..
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After walk walk liao, then we got hungry so we went to have our dinner.. at some kebab place.. everyone of us ordered the same food.. cheap n good. steady lah..
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