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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.<\/p>\n<p>The seals let us down, but the park did not: Kolovesi\u2019s pristine wilderness teems with bird, mammal and fish life. Its numerous islands and islets boast soaring cliffs, forests laden with wild berries and mushrooms, ancient rock formations and caves with prehistoric drawings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/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\">Read the whole story from The New York Times!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Finland, Slippery Seals..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[275,276,332,18,35],"relatedcontent":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-media-hits-gb","8":"tag-enonkoski","9":"tag-kolovesi-national-park","10":"tag-lakeland","11":"tag-saimaa","12":"tag-saimaa-ringed-seal","14":"priority-3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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