If you ask backcountry skiers and splitboarders to pick their dream destination for a ski trip, their answers will invariably cluster around a few time-tested places. Alaska, Japan, and British ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Swedish Lapland—the Arctic region of Sweden—is an ideal ...

In winter, the northernmost part of Sweden is most famous for its swaths of untouched wilderness and one of nature’s best shows, the Northern Lights. But this piece of the Arctic, known as Lapland, is ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). With 24 saunas to 23 residents, it’s fair to say the village of Liehittäjä has at least one more sauna than is strictly necessary.

It’s already pitch black at 2.30pm when I pull up at Kukkolaforsen, a hotel and cultural centre on the banks of the Torne river. I’m within the Arctic Circle, more than 600 miles north of Stockholm ...

With 24 saunas to 23 residents, it’s fair to say the village of Liehittäjä has at least one more sauna than is strictly necessary. Spend any time here, however, and you soon understand the ratio — ...