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Warning to visitors from hot places!
are remnants from the Swedish Iron Age (the Viking Age)
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The site of the biggest natural disaster Sweden has ever known.
In 1796, a man was hired by logging companies to build a canal that would bypass a huge waterfall, because the giant stones in the rapids broke the logs as they were floated downstream. But just after the canal was finished, unusually high spring floods burst through a sandy ridge and a whole big lake at the top of the falls was emptied—in just four hours’ time! All that was left was this eerie landscape of gigantic rocks that once formed the river bottom.
One of the most unusual sights you'll see in Sweden is this genuine Thai pavilion, built in the 1990s by Thai craftsmen as a monument to the 1897 state visit of Siamese King Chulalongkorn to Sweden. Chulalongkorn is Thailand's (formerly Siam) most beloved king, who abolished slavery and modernized the country in many ways. And the oldest son of the king depicted in the musical “The King and I”—and in the Jodi Foster movie “Anna and the King.”
The guide told us that the only difference between this pavilion and the ones in Thailand is that in Thailand a pavilion is basically a roof supported by pillars. The one in Sweden was built with concrete walls to withstand the Swedish winter!
When you’re driving in the Swedish mountains in the summer, be prepared to stop for reindeer!
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Ha ha, you can't get past me! |
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See these pretty little plants with the fuzzy, scalloped leaves?
These are stinging nettles. Do not
walk into a patch of them Memorize what these babies look like. |
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Later in the spring, they develop little white flowers like these:
And in summer the leaves become longer and thinner, |
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Fairy Ring |
Enchanted forest? |
Cool-looking gnarled wood |
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These are called kettleholes. They’re holes worn in the rock at a river bottom over thousands of years by stones swirling in eddies. These are from the Dead Falls. |
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