The Perfect Trip: Lapland (I)

The Perfect Trip: Lapland (I)

by Anthony Ham翻譯：寒星

完美假期：游走拉普蘭（I）

2017年的第一期世界風情館，小編將要帶大家去哪里走走呢？哈哈，這次我們將一同前往北歐的拉普蘭！獨特的極地風光和原住民族風情啊，你是否已經準備去好好探索一番了？啥？光這一期還玩兒不夠啊？我就知道！不急不急，在下一期，小編還會繼續帶你游走拉普蘭哦！嘻嘻～

Lule?: Best for Activities

Here, skiing and skating are less leisure pursuits than ways of life adapted to the1)ice-bound landscape. Until two decades ago, the indigenous Sami followed their migrating2)reindeer herds on skis from Sweden’s far north to Lule?. These days, local children learn to skate almost as soon as they can walk.

From December to April, the rivers and sea3)inlets that surround Lule? are turned into almost two miles of cleared ice. Sleds replace4)prams, dog owners ski instead of walk and young people skate across town to visit friends. Joining them couldn’t be easier, and gliding across the frozen sea is an5)exhilarating first step towards6)embracing the Lapland winter. But it is7)dog-sledding that gives the greatest thrill—sitting on reindeer skins draped over long wooden sleds, while expert8)mushers drive their teams of9)Siberian huskies along trails, is an invigorating experience.

“The lead dogs are the real extensions of my will,” the dog owner Richard says, pointing at the dog with10)unrestrained affection. “There’s a mythology surrounding the huskies with blue eyes. They say that they can see the spirit world and the wind.”

“This is the only way to travel,”Richard says, easing to a halt. “You can get close to everything. You can hear the wind and see the wildlife. You become a part of nature. The longer you spend with the dogs, the more it becomes a spiritual thing, something that connects you with the animals and the land in a11)profound way.”

1) ice-bound冰封的

2) reindeer ['re?nd??] n. 馴鹿

3) inlet ['?nlet] n. 小海灣，入口

4) pram [pr?m] n. 平底船

5) exhilarating [?g'z?l?re?t??] adj. 使人興奮的

6) embrace [?m'bre?s] v. 擁抱，迎接

7) dog-sledding 乘坐狗拉雪橇

8) musher [m???] n. 趕狗拉雪橇的人

9) Siberian husky 西伯利亞雪橇犬

10) unrestrained [?nr?'stre?nd] adj. 無約束的，無限制的

11) profound [pr?'fa?nd] adj. 意義深遠的

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Sami（薩米人），亦稱Lapp（拉普人），是歐洲最大的一個原住民族群，分別居住在瑞典、芬蘭、挪威和俄羅斯這四個國家里，屬于北歐人種。薩米人開墾的地區常被簡稱為“拉普蘭”。薩米人有著自己豐富的民族文化，能講七種不同的方言。

Gammelstad and Harads: Best for Architecture

The cottages that surround the 15thcentury stone church in Gammelstad tell one of Lapland’s more curious12)tales: this is a village where no-one slept for more than a single night in any given week.

At the time it was built, every person was required by law to attend church. The solution in this vast and thinly populated land was to build “church villages” like Gammelstad. There were once more than 70 such villages across northern Sweden and Gammelstad is the largest and best-preserved of the 16 that remain. Today, it’s a Unesco World Heritage Site注.

Some cottages survive here in their original form. No one lives in the old heart of the town now, but it’s as if the13)inhabitants are expected back at any moment. “The cottages have survived for centuries,” says Camilla, a local historian who was14)baptised in the church and whose family owns one of the cottages. “But the houses were built without nails so that the owners could15)dismantle them in an hour in case of fre. All of the houses are privately owned, and people still come here to stay at weekends.”

In this northern Swedish forest, in tree houses designed by16)leading Swedish architects, guests go to their rest17)in the knowledge that theirs is a room unlike any other in the world.

“We wondered what people would most expect to see in a forest.” says Britta, who owns the Treehotel with her husband Kent. “A bird’s nest. So we built one. This is the one I like when I want to hide from the world. What would people least expect? A UFO. So we built that, too. It makes me think of my grandchildren. And if I’m feeling romantic, I love the cabin.”

“I want guests to come away with a sense of fun and magic,” says Britta. “I also want the designs to make people think about what it means to return to nature. Fun, philosophy and trees. That’s what this is all about.”

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Gammelstad（加默爾斯塔德教堂村，亦稱Gammelstad Church Town）是瑞典北博滕省呂勒奧附近的一個小鎮，位于波的尼亞灣的最北部。它完整地保留了斯堪的納維亞北部早期教堂村莊的特點，于1996年被聯合國教科文組織評為世界文化遺產。

注：即聯合國教科文組織確定的世界遺產地。

12) tale [te?l] n. 傳說，故事

13) inhabitant [?n'h?b?t?nt] n. 居民

14) baptise [b?p'ta?z] v. 施洗禮

15) dismantle [d?s'm?ntl] v. 拆卸

16) leading ['li?d??] adj. 最重要的，主要的

17) in the knowledge that 在知道……的情況下

呂勒奧：活動圣地

在這里，與其他適合于冰天雪地的生活方式相比，滑雪和滑冰并不那么輕松。直到二十年前，土著薩米人總是跟隨著他們的馴鹿群一同遷徙，坐著雪橇從遙遠的瑞典北部來到了呂勒奧。現如今，當地的小孩幾乎是一學會走路便去學習滑冰了。

從每年的12月到次年4月，環繞著呂勒奧的河流和入海口就會被凍成近兩英里寬的晶瑩冰面。于是雪橇替代了小船，養狗人乘坐雪橇代步，年輕人則滑著冰穿過小鎮去探望朋友。要加入他們的行列再簡單不過了，滑過冰封的海面是擁抱拉普蘭嚴冬激動人心的第一步。不過，乘坐狗拉雪橇才是最刺激的—坐在鋪著馴鹿皮的木制長雪橇上，老練的狗拉雪橇師傅趕著一群群的西伯利亞雪橇犬在小路上飛奔，這是一種令人興奮的體驗。

“領頭的狗是我意志的真正延伸，”理查德師傅指著那只狗說道，話語中流露出無限的喜愛之情。“這些藍眼愛斯基摩犬身上流傳著神話。據說它們能通靈，還能看見風。”

“這是出行的唯一方式，”理查德一邊說著一邊停下了雪橇。“你可以與所有事物親密接觸。你可以聽見風，并能見到野生動物。你成為了大自然的一部分。你和這些狗相處的時間越長，這一切就越會有一股超自然的力量，有某些東西在將你與這些動物、這片土地以一種深刻的方式連結在了一起。”

加默爾斯塔德教堂村與哈拉斯：建筑的藝術寶地

在加默爾斯塔德，那些圍繞著15世紀的石砌教堂而建的村舍訴說著拉普蘭一件更為稀奇的事：在這個村莊里，任何一周都不會有人在這兒過夜超過一個晚上。

在加默爾斯塔德教堂村創建的年代，法律規定每位村民都必須到教堂做禮拜。在這片廣闊且人煙稀少的土地上，解決這個難題的辦法便是興建更多像加默爾斯塔德一樣的“教堂村”。在瑞典北部曾有70多個這樣的村莊，而加默爾斯塔德是留存下來的16個教堂村中最大且保存最為完整的。如今，它已被聯合國科教文組織列為世界遺產地。

這里有些房屋依然保留著它們原本的模樣。現在已經沒有人住在小鎮的老中心區了，但小鎮看起來就像是居民們隨時都會回來一樣。“這些房屋熬過了數個世紀，”卡米拉如是說，她是當地的一名歷史學家，曾在這里的教堂受洗，其家族還擁有其中一所房子。“不過房子在建造時并沒有使用釘子，這是為了在遇到火災時，房子的主人能夠在一小時內將它拆卸。所有的房子都是私有財產，周末時人們還是會回到這里。”

位于瑞典北部的這片森林中，在由頂尖瑞典建筑師群設計的樹屋里，賓客們自行休息了，他們都清楚地知道自己所住的房間是世界上獨一無二的。

“我們很想知道人們最期待在森林里看到什么。”布里塔說，她與丈夫肯特是樹屋酒店的老板。“那就是鳥巢。于是我們建了一個鳥巢。每當我想逃離這個世界的時候，我就會來到這里。人們認為最不可能會見到什么呢？不明飛行物。于是我們也建了一個不明飛行物。它讓我想起了我的孫輩。而如果我想要浪漫情調，我會喜歡這個小屋的。”

“我希望賓客們在離開時能夠帶著一種既有趣又神奇的感覺，”布里塔說。“我也希望這些設計能促使人們思考回歸自然的意義。趣味、哲學和樹木—這就是樹屋所帶給你的體驗。”