Karelia Shop

Ylä-Kolintie 2, 83960 Koli, tel. +358 (0)10 830 2552 www.kareliashop.fi, saga.spirit@yahoo.com

You’ll find Karelia Shop in Koli village. The shop offers a wide selection of gifts and souvenirs including handicrafts. Cafeteria and ice cream.

Open 16.1. - 9.4.2012 Wed-Sun 10 am - 5 pm.
Open 11.4 - 15.6.2012 Wed-Sun 10 am - 5 pm.

Koli Shop ‘Retkitupa’

Ylä-Kolintie 39, 83960 Koli, tel. +358 (0)13 6887 250. www.koliactiv.fi , sales@koliactiv.fi

You’ll find Retkitupa at the end of the Sokos Hotel Koli building. Outdoor gear and souvenirs. The selection includes Exel Nordic Walking sticks, Kupilka dishes, birchwood cups, “Outdoor Karelia” and “Koli Guide” books, photographer Marko Tano’s Koli scenes, art cards by Leila Tanskanen and Liisa Tommila, Ziener gloves, handmade felt cats, Landroller crosscountry roller skates. Also an equipment rental service, plus showers and changing rooms for hikers.

Open Spring 2012: Mon - Sat  10 am - 5 pm, Sun 10 am - 3 pm.
(Easter) 6.4.- 8.4  Fri-Sun 9 am – 6 pm, 9.4. Mon 9 am - 3 pm.

Nature Shop Vakka at Visitor Centre Ukko

Ylä-Kolintie 39, 83960 Koli, tel.+358 205 64 5654, www.luontoon.fi/ukko, ukko@metsa.fi

Handicrafts and organic foodstuffs, café. Free internet access in the lobby.

Opening hours Spring 2012:

1.1. – 12.2. Mon - Sat 10 am – 5 pm, Sun 10 am - 3 pm.
13.2. –24.6. daily 10 am – 5 pm.

Suomen Kivikeskus/Finnish Stone Centre

Kuhnustantie 10, 83900 Juuka. Enquiries and group reservations: tel. +358 (0) 207 636 600; info@kivikeskus.com, www.kivikyla.fi

The Stone Centre lies about 30 kms from Koli village. It offers a window opening up the world of stone, with a large selection of products on sale. These include unpolished stones, Hukka Design products, soapstone products, stone jewellery, gifts and practical products, and local ceramics. Specialities include petrified wood, sand roses, fossils, and dinosaur bones. The selection offered includes local products, as well as others from all over Finland and around the world. The Stone Centre also offers a magnificent geo-exhibition, art exhibitions, a stone park, a soapstone museum, the Tulikivi Restaurant and Tulikivi & Kermansavi sales exhibition.

Tulikivi Stove Shop is open Monday through Friday 9 am - 4 pm.

Tulikivi Restaurant tel. +358 (0)20 763 65 00.

The Finnish Stone Center is having a winter break. Open again in Spring 2012.

Sinikka’s Ceramics ‘Mustikkapaikka’

Sinikan savikamari, Paalasmaantie 120, 83900 Juuka, tel.+358 (0)40507 9732;

email: sinikka.hayrinen@luukku.com

This is a ceramics sales exhibition about 40 kms from Koli on the road to Juuka. Sinikka Häyrinen’s individually crafted lamps, lanterns, miniature fountains and other ceramic art products. Opens to the ring of the doorbell or by phoning in advance. For map, pictures, further info: www.sinikkahayrinen.com




Joensuu

Joensuu is the biggest city in North Karelia (population 73 000). You’ll find a good selection of shops along the pedestrian street or nearby in the town centre. For holiday makers looking for things to do, Joensuu offers a broad range: swimming pools, gymnasia, bowling, massage and other treatments. Then there are the Art Museum and the North Karelia Museum right across from the market square. And just a block away the craft centre Taitokortteli across from the City Hall has become a thriving milieu, with sales outlets, a working smithy and other workshops and services. You can even weave your own souvenir.

Distance from Koli: 70 kms

Lieksa

This town (population13 000) lies further from the sea than any other in Fennoscandia. To get here from Koli there is a long drive around the lake, but the summer ferry service cuts driving distance. And in the depths of winter (usually January onwards) there is a road (7kms) across the ice. A wide range of shops and services.

Juuka

Juuka village (population 5 800) is the heart of the district of Juuka (total pop. 6 000). The village is about half an hour’s drive from Koli. Here you’ll find the nearest outlet of Alko, the national alcohol monopoly.


Nurmes

The town of Nurmes (population 8500) has two centres: Porokylä and Nurmes. Nurmes offers, among other services, a factory outlet for Sasta outdoor wear.