{"id":26533,"date":"2022-06-02T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/?p=26533"},"modified":"2022-06-02T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:09:08","slug":"the-travel-why-finland-s-lake-saimaa-is-a-must-visit-european-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/en\/the-travel-why-finland-s-lake-saimaa-is-a-must-visit-european-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"The Travel: Why Finland\u2019s Lake Saimaa Is A Must-Visit European Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Situated in Southeastern Finland, Lake Saimaa in the Lakeland district is the country\u2019s largest lake and the fourth-largest natural freshwater lake in Europe, boasting a maze of 15,000 islands and more coastline than the entire nation of Spain. This means innumerable ways to be immersed in nature and find joy. Finland has been voted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetravel.com\/why-finland-is-the-happiest-country-in-the-world\/\">happiest place on earth<\/a> four times in a row in an annual UN-sponsored report. The moment you arrive in the Lake Saimaa region, it\u2019s easy to understand the Finnish people\u2019s secret to their happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetravel.com\/finlands-lake-saimaa-is-a-must-visit-european-destination\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Situated in Southeastern Finland, Lake Saimaa in the Lakeland district is the country\u2019s largest lake and the fourth-largest natural freshwater lake in Europe, boasting a maze of 15,000 islands and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":16323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"relatedcontent":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26533","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 v27.5) - 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