{"id":5540,"date":"2016-08-18T09:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/en\/?p=5540"},"modified":"2016-08-18T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:06:00","slug":"go-world-travel-lake-saimaa-finland-s-nature-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/en\/go-world-travel-lake-saimaa-finland-s-nature-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Go World Travel &#8211; Lake Saimaa: Finland\u2019s Nature Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lake Saimaa is the largest lake in Finland \u2013 and it&#8217;s a huge draw for travelers.<\/p>\n<p>My basket is still empty, so I follow the others along the forest trail, intent on our hunt for blueberries. My mid-western American eyes aren\u2019t quite sure what to look for. After all, foraging in the forest is not something we do back home in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>But here in Finland, it\u2019s a beloved pastime. The Finns believe that everyone has the right to enjoy outdoor pursuits. Their \u2018everyman\u2019s law\u2019 gives public access to the country\u2019s vast forests, lakes and rivers, with few restrictions. That means that we can spend the afternoon picking blueberries on an island in the middle of Lake Saimaa.<\/p>\n<p>Located in eastern Finland, Lake Saimaa is Finland\u2019s largest lake and the fourth largest natural freshwater lake in Europe. To understand how large Saimaa is, it\u2019s best to imagine its islands \u2013 there are almost 14,000 of them. The lake is home to many communities and thousands of summer cottages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goworldtravel.com\/lake-saimaa-finland-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article from Go World Travel!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Saimaa is the largest lake in Finland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"relatedcontent":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5540","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Go World Travel - Lake Saimaa: Finland\u2019s Nature Playground - Visit Saimaa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lake Saimaa is the largest lake in Finland\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/en\/go-world-travel-lake-saimaa-finland-s-nature-playground\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Go World Travel - Lake Saimaa: Finland\u2019s Nature Playground\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lake Saimaa is the largest lake in Finland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/en\/go-world-travel-lake-saimaa-finland-s-nature-playground\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Visit Saimaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-08-18T06:03:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-08-18T06:06:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lake-saimaa-travel.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"434\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nita Silvennoinen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nita Silvennoinen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\\\/en\\\/go-world-travel-lake-saimaa-finland-s-nature-playground\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\\\/en\\\/go-world-travel-lake-saimaa-finland-s-nature-playground\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nita Silvennoinen\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\\\/fi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7542b12ca188fd300e95b6f2236253ba\"},\"headline\":\"Go World Travel &#8211; 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