{"id":22900,"date":"2025-05-15T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kvarken.org\/?p=22900"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:11:42","slug":"sauna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kvarken.org\/en\/sauna\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam up your summer \u2013 the Nordic way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Steam up your summer \u2013 the Nordic way<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking for something refreshing this summer?<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Bothnian Coastal Route, where fresh water meets hot steam. This is Nordic wellness at its finest \u2013 with saunas, sea air and peaceful nature stretching along the coastlines of both Sweden and Finland.<\/p>\n<p>With Eurovision buzz around the Finnish music group <span class=\"xv78j7m\">KAJ<\/span> (from V\u00f6r\u00e5\/V\u00f6yri, near Vaasa) representing Sweden, the spotlight is also turning to the Nordic lifestyle \u2013 and our world-famous sauna culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start your Sauna Bucket List Road Trip along the Bothnian Bay and experience the healing contrast of heat, water and wild nature \u2013 across borders and far from the ordinary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Discover the route and the saunas here:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bothniancoastalroute.com\/tour\/sauna-the-essence-of-nordic-wellbeing\/\">https:\/\/bothniancoastalroute.com\/tour\/sauna-the-essence-of-nordic-wellbeing\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>You can also search for \u201csauna\u201d using the keyword box here:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bothniancoastalroute.com\/map-list-favourites\/\">https:\/\/bothniancoastalroute.com\/map-list-favourites\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Or browse all products tagged with <span class=\"xv78j7m\">#sauna<\/span> here:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bothniancoastalroute.com\/map-list-favourites\/?view=list&amp;tag=42\">https:\/\/bothniancoastalroute.com\/map-list-favourites\/?view=list&amp;tag=42<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Read more about the Bothnian Coastal Route project <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvarken.org\/en\/project\/bothnian-coastal-route\/\">HERE<\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (project info page) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bothniancoastalroute.com\/\">HERE<\/a> (a<span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW3643353 BCX0\">\u00a0specific <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW3643353 BCX0\">marketing <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW3643353 BCX0\">umbrella <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW3643353 BCX0\">website for the project with a B2B tour planning tool)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kvarken.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cropped-AURORA-RGB-Color-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for something refreshing this summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"amnen":[96],"class_list":["post-22900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","amnen-tourism"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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