Travelog post for: Tanusha

I got to visit Helsinki, the capital city, with my host today. It was a brief visit and it was dark most of the time, therefore the photos are mainly from the main street. Photos 4 and 5 show the main railway station. Because it was so dark my host enhanced the photos: half of the photo is as dark as it really was and the other half made brighter so that you could see what I saw - isn't that nice of her?

Helsinki is only 50km west from Porvoo and it takes about 1 hour by buss (from Porvoo to Helsinki). There are about 500 000 inhabitants there.
Here's a brief history of Helsinki.

Here some touristy information.

Christmas lights everywhere! The third pic from the end shows the parliament house and behind it (the tower) The National Museum. The second pic from the end shows the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma(the white building on the back) and the statue of CG Mannerheim (the riding man next to it). In the last photo there's some of the newer buildings, it's not all Old.

We even saw Santa Claus doing tricks on a rope! What a country...