Reindeers next to the road

We drive away from Arvidsjaur towards the town of Jokkmokk which is the center of Sami life in Sweden. We follow the inland road which is a bit higher in the mountains compared to the costal road. In here is where the reindeers like to wonder around the hills to find food.

We do drive for a while without seeing much and then suddenly we spot a large group of reindeers in the distance just across the road. We stop and to have a look at the reindeer – it is after all the first reindeer we seen on this trip to the north.

Unfortunately the reindeer isn’t really cooperative today – they keep walking away from us into the hills. It is a bit rough to walk across the land and it is a bit wet at places as well. And hiking boats can’t really match a reindeer hoof when it comes to walking across landscape like this.

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We do manage to get a few pictures from the distance and then we go back to the car to continue the drive north. As we drive down the road we actually see a few extra reindeers standing alone on the side of the road. We leave the individual reindeers and keep driving.