{"id":51149,"date":"2018-01-29T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitsavonlinna.fi\/?p=51149"},"modified":"2018-01-29T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:40:10","slug":"the-new-york-times-in-finland-slippery-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitsavonlinna.fi\/en\/the-new-york-times-in-finland-slippery-seals\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times: In Finland, Slippery Seals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;ENONKOSKI, Finland \u2014 A brisk wind was kicking up silvery ripples on the water\u2019s surface \u2014 a pretty sight but no help in the search for Saimaa ringed seals.<\/p>\n<p>Matti Siivonen, our guide, said the surface disturbance would camouflage the rare animals, relatives to the arctic seal, which have been stranded in freshwater lakes here for 8,000 years. But, he added, spotting seals usually requires more than a week\u2019s stay in Kolovesi National Park, an 18-square-mile wilderness of wooded islands set amid a maze of straits and channels. We were booked for two days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/01\/travel\/in-finland-freshwater-seals-prove-elusive.html?module=CloseSlideshow&amp;region=SlideShowTopBar&amp;version=SlideCard-5&amp;action=keypress&amp;contentCollection=Travel&amp;pgtype=imageslideshow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the whole article from The New York Times!<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Want to visit Kolovesi Nationalpark?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/Kolovesi National Park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kolovesi NP in nationalparks.fi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oravivillage.com\/en\/Kolovesi-NP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SaimaaHoliday Oravi, a servide porovider in Kolovesi NP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to Kolovesi National Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"relatedcontent":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-yleinen-en","9":"priority-3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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