The BEST Rovaniemi day trip: FROZEN waterfalls at Korouoma (Finnish Lapland)

this is much more adventurous than I thought it would [Music] [Music] [Music] be if you missed our last video we were in a private island with an off-grid cabin in Northern Finland and it was a fun and unique experience to get there we rented a car but we're back in ronam and we still have the car until the end of the day so we're going to go on a little day [Music] trip before we hit the road we're making a quick stop at a coffee shop here in roon Miami called Coffee House and this place is so beautiful it just has this gorgeous design inside with all these unique seating areas plants All Around Fun light fixtures and the couple times we've been here the coffee and food has been A+ we got flat whites which is my go-to drink here in Europe I'm not sure why flat whites aren't more popular in the US because it's just the perfect milk to Espresso ratio and then we also got these mozzarella tomato pesto Pacha bread things that they heat up for you they do have a ton of delicious pastries here but we're a little sweeted out and even though this isn't a very breakfasty item it is still hitting the [Music] spot [Music] this is our trusty rental car that's gotten us around lap land it's a scoda kamik which is a crossover so it's had plenty of room for the both of us we got one with an automatic transmission so it's been super easy to drive and it came with snow tires so it has little studs in the tires which give you better traction and that comes standard on all rental cars here in the winter we love this car if it was available for sale in the US us and we were in the market for a car this would be a top Contender it looks super Sleek it drives really nice and in the driver side door it has a fun little feature in this little pocket right here on the driver side door is an umbrella what a awesome touch that is that is so cool it just slides right in there you wouldn't even know it we rented this car from budget right in town and one thing to know about renting a car here in Finland especially as a US citizen is that you do not need an IDP or an international driver's permit our driver's license from the US works just fine so it was super easy to rent a car here but the sun's rising soonish and we've got limited daylight so let's hit the [Music] road today our plan is to visit cororo which is a free Nature Reserve about 1 and 1 half hours southeast of Rani Emi it's known for a pretty cool feature in the wintertime which you probably already know from the title and thumbnail of this video but just pretend to be surprised when we show [Music] you I didn't have much winter Driving Experience before coming here to Finland when we lived in Washington I drove on some snow and some ice but really not much so I didn't know what to expect coming here but overall it felt pretty good I felt very secure on the road not flipping or sliding or losing traction with these snow tires and most of the drivers have been pretty courteous and cautious and no one's like driving and speeding around and they're turning really slow so overall it's felt pretty normal the only time that it's felt a little scary was last night when we were driving back from the cabin it was dark and foggy and snowing so the visibility was not very good and anytime that like a semi Tru or a really big truck would go past us in the other direction it would kick up all this just like snow and ice and it would create this huge Cloud that for seconds you could not see anything so you'd be driving and all of a sudden like a wall just like a white out wall and you're like ah I don't even know where the road is so we'd have to go really slow but we made it through and we survived I got to say Adam has absolutely crushed the winter driving way to [Music] go poro is a 30 km long Canyon that was formed during the Ice Age when ice fractured Bedrock that was millions of years old you can visit year round but it's extra magical in the winter when frozen waterfalls form on its Canyon walls there are around 14 of them that form with three major ones that can be viewed along a 5 km [Music] Loop [Music] I just love the sound that our boots make when they're just crunching on the snow and today is actually the warmest day that we've had in at least a week it's actually 0° CS we are no longer in the negatives and because of this a lot of the trees are losing their snow so all of a sudden you'll be walking and then bam all the snow just comes flying down so we're walking very cautiously under the trees so we don't get dumbed [Music] on we're about to make it to our first view of the falls but it looks pretty foggy so I don't think we're going to have the best view of them until we're a little bit closer getting a little steep good thing we got these ropes here to help us down our goal our entire time we've been in Finland every day when we start walking for the day we're like don't slip don't slip don't fall so far so good but I think this place might uh might test us on that one there is a cafe at the beginning of the trail that rents spikes for5 each but they weren't open yet so we're just going straight snow boot today just brought my tobogan my [Music] sled [Music] I had read that there were steep Parts but there are a lot of steep slick Parts my no falling in Finland streak has broken I fell I might as well just slide might just might as well just slide the rest of the way down wee come on woo this is much more adventurous than I thought it would be I've now fallen three [Music] times we're getting down to the bottom of the canyon and either some of the fog has gone or we're just close enough that it's not affecting our view but now you can really start to see some of the frosty walls and some the all the icicles hanging down it's so [Music] cool as we mentioned there are three major waterfalls and after slipping and sliding we have finally made it to the first one Charlie [Music] Brown we read that some of these waterfalls are 60 M tall and this one is 50 m tall and it says on the sign here that some Winters there's an ice cave you can go in back there and stay the night in that would be awesome obviously if you're like properly geared yeah if you have the proper gear and knowledge and all that [Music] stuff we have made it to the second waterfall Mammoth fall which is a very popular ice climbing spot and if you've been following along for a while you may remember that when we were in Alaska we went ice climbing on a glacier and it was equally terrifying and exhilarating and a ton of fun I can't tell if I'm crying a little bit cuz of the Sun or cuz I'm just scared out of my mind right now I did it definitely one of the craziest things that we've ever done you can actually book a tour to learn how to ice climb on one of these things which would just be so crazy ice climbing on a frozen waterfall like this seems a little more sketchy than what we did we climbed like in a glacier so it was like just a huge wall of ice which this is too but there's many more little creeks and cracks and crevices that aren't as thick as a huge wall you know so I don't know how i' feel about doing it on a [Music] waterfall [Music] this is brown River I'm sure you can guess why it's called that just by looking at it but this is the most impressive of the three major waterfalls here it's just so solid and welldeveloped and it kind of reminds me of Mammoth Hot Springs at Yellowstone National Park it's all the tears and like kind of columns in it yeah I think we definitely saved the best for last this one is easily my favorite along the [Music] Route at the end of the trail they have all these fire pits where you can warm up and make some food and we're panicking a little on the trail because we thought ahead today and we thought well maybe we should go buy a lighter so we can actually start the fire but we assumed that there would be firewood here and there's no firewood here and we saw all the tour groups carrying firewood and we're thinking to ourselves no we're not going to be able to make a fire but then we stumbled upon this one and someone had left a fire so we lucked out big time and then another thing that we're worrying about is how are we going to grill our sausages like we knew that there were these pan things you can put them on but we were like how are we going to grab them how are we going to hold them and I found a sausage stick oh I love when the universe just like looks out for you I am so thankful for the previous group that was here that just left it instead of putting it out the fire feels so good these communal fire pits seem to be really common in Finland and it's one of my favorite things about Finland I just love this this feels so nice right now this is amazing we're going to make sausages in the middle of the forest this is going to be awesome Adam was getting Mega hangry on the trail and I was a little afraid of what would happen if we could not have these sausages I think he was going to just eat it cold I was going to eat it [Music] cold yeah buddy we also brought our little toothpaste tube of finished mustard so we're going to finish this sausage off with some mustard mustard is a little different than American mustard it's a little sweeter but super good it's also much more Brown than American mustard it kind of looks like peanut butter to me oh oh no all the peanut Butter's on the ground all the mustards on the ground little should I do the whole thing it's going to fall off like a bad idea M that's delicious though should we a that's St nothing beats a weener in the woods the only thing missing from our campfire were some hot drinks but thankfully there's a cafe right at the trail head that I think we'll be able to take care of that I got ourselves a couple items here this is a gloy which is a finished like spicy Christmas drink and then we have a lingan berry cake and then this is a companu which is kind of like a biscuit that they bake here locally and in finish that means a hairbrush is what the lady at the counter told me looks really good very dening crumbly and buttery and it's cold so it's kind of almost kind of has like a more of a cakey texture almost it's like a short bread flavor a little sweet but not too much we are hooked on lingan berries right now oh no it's tart but also sweet and the chromeball on top this is just what I needed this place is so NE it's just a cozy cabin with strung lights fur blankets you can sit on to stay warm and out back they have a tee with a fire this is I wish every single trail head had something like this oh no on Budd it's frozen shut public transportation in Europe is pretty amazing so we orig did not plan to rent a car this trip but I am so glad that we did it just gives you freedom and flexibility and helps you reach harder to get to places like the cabin in our last video and these waterfalls you can take a tour to these waterfalls so if you don't have a car don't worry but I will say our 5day car rental I'm pretty sure it costs less than if we took a tour to the waterfalls today when we were in Germany in the smaller towns we really regretted not having a car but the weather and the holidays the public transportation just wasn't very reliable so in the future anytime we are not in a major city in Europe we are renting a car but now it's time to get this bad boy back to robani took us four gas stations to find one that would accept our card I don't know what was happening but they just kept getting declined so we kept bouncing around but we finally got one we're getting gas in this thing and we're not going to return it late that's right [Music] in there that was such a fun day trip we highly recommend making the track out there if you're visiting ranmi but tomorrow is actually our last day here in Finland but we have something very fun and unique land nothing beats a wiener in the woods I keep yeah almost like an on alliteration mhm nothing is as wondrous as a Wier in the [Music] woods